General Chat

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 :-)

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

...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

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 :-)

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

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?

Glad to hear it Rollo. :-D

I am untidy and chaotic always trying to squeeze too much into a day.
I really hate ironing. I have never inflicted ironing my shirts on my partner. As a result I generate employment :-) and support public libraries by dint of the fines. For rushing to the rescue of a damsel in a great state of distress in the wee small hours of the night I am about to attend one of those speed awareness courses at great inconvenience and expense.
Far from purrfect sad to say.

Well,our heating is warm air heating which was built into the house when it was constructed in the late 60,s it's very efficient especially as over the years we upgraded the boiler to a bigger output and extended it into a bedroom and the bathroom by way of venting it into to loft and then down vented it in the ceilings of the two rooms that didn't have it

We to have it on all the time once it's on and control it by using the thermostat in the lounge ,we turn it way down when going to bed but it will tick over if the overnight temperature goes way down

Double glazing too does help and we had them installed with opening vents at the top to prevent damp and to get fresh air in the bedrooms so as not to be oxygen starved

it must be a real burden to always be right :-D

Feels the cold easy Ann, no doubt I will be told by the dictionary police if im wrong :-D ;-)

You know Rollo, I can only admire how perfect you are. :-)

woss nesh :-S :-S :-S

I like to put my colour co-ordinates on the same radiators, knickers always
go in the bedroom with all me other smalls, you gotta do what you gotta do
to get your bits and bods dried, and that includes me matalan jeans, and if it keeps me warm inside and out then so be it :-D :-D :-D ;-)

Do people run tumble dryers unvented ? The things you learn. Even if there is not permanent venting the vent hose can be hung out the window surely.

When I am in town I just dump the whole lot on a laundry and get it all back nicely ironed with paper wrappers for my shirts. The cost is surprisingly low and compares well with the laudrette + ironing. They even sew on missing buttons.

OTOH being of a certain age and lifelong wearer of 501s maybe I am missing out on something.

I used to work in Chelyabinsk USSR where they have community steam heating which def is not on in September. The English are so nesh.

No heating on but summer duvet changed yesterday for winter one.

Drying clothes on radiators is not so much a fire risk but it can cause other problems such as condensation, leading to a black mold growth on cold areas like north facing walls. Unvented tumble dryers are a big cause of this problem. After all, that moisture has to go somewhere.

How can drying clothes on a radiator be a fire risk? Closed radiator, no flame, not that hot. We always dry our over the rads hanging the clothes from the shelves over the radiator. MY OH would soon say if it was a fire risk.

If the electric blanket was invented earlier, I wouldn't have bothered getting married.