General Chat

Glad to hear it Rollo. :-D

Well, many years ago, when I had my tumble dryer - fitted by the appropriate person, vented and cleaned out after every use etc etc regularly serviced.
It caught fire.

I have no black mould, and haven't got room for airers cluttering up the place. The washing also gives off a lovely smell, and humidifies the house - which becomes unbearably dry when the heating is on.

The washing is well spun, and usually hung on the line first - unless it's raining. Yes, it may block some of the heat, but It can hardly be deemed a fire hazard!!

I do have a modicum of intelligence and common sense.
These are water-filled closed radiators, not open ones, and the radiators can be turned to various heats - I rarely have them on full - as the atmosphere becomes too dry

Okay, Rollo?

Certainly must be a nesh lot down south. Tis getting nippy at nights here bottom end of South Yorkshire but I just stick a cardi' on. If too cool can always wear a vest as well. Except when there's exceptional low temps we never have the heating on overnight

I'm sure Maggies dinner guests would be most impressed to see her smalls revolving on the meal table Rollo.

we have so far resisted putting the heating on ............. although OH did check the filters on the furnace (blown air heating) last weekend, so we are prepared :-)


Fall arrived on Monday evening, and the first Pacific storm of the season arrived on Tuesday afternoon ............ so it got a bit chilly!


We have the duvet on the bed, changed over from the lightweight blanket we use in summer.

and I went and got a couple of lightweight winter turtle necks from the storage box ................. we'll both be switching summer clothes for winter ones this weekend.


We actually never turn off our heating at the furnace .................... it's gas, and we have to call in the company to turn it back on if we do turn off the pilot light.

But its operation is governed by a thermostat in the dining room, and that is turned down as low as it will go.


We also have electric baseboard heating in 3 rooms added to the house later, with a thermostat control in each room. Those are set at 5C during the summer, and then operated as need be during the winter.



we have never owned a clothes drier .............. the laundry area in the basement has several lines, and we just hang the clothes there. We rarely have to iron anything ........

......... and we have not had a mould problem in the 42 years we have been doing this :-)

...matches the discarded bra on the sofa, Island - but I'm sure there's some sort of gravitational danger in removing bra before going to bed.
Perhaps one may trip on the dangly bits :-D

I hate being cold! If the temp falls below 20C I get the thermal undies on.

I've just bought a new electric blanket. DH laughed, said I broke the old one, because I had it on all the time :-D He may be right, because his side still works (he's never had it on) and mine is kaput.

It's spring here, I want to be prepared for next winter :-D

so ........


.......... couldn't you turn the electric blanket round or over, so you get the still working side?



not having had an electric blanket since before I left the UK in 1967 :-)