Freezing To Death.

[sapelesam]

I'm sat in a three seasons sleeping bag, boiler failed at 6.30pm. Heating engineer can't get here until tomorrow lunchtime. I've brought my portable gas heater in from my workshop, only problem is our large lounge with double height ceiling.Think it's time to move with heater into my office, smallest room in the house. Wifey has gone to bed dressed for the arctic. Can't believe how soft we've become. Saying that, need a pair of gloves.

[goodgoalie]

Commiserations - but I bet there are a lot of ABers who can remember, as I do, frost on the INSIDE of their bedroom window. Normal for a Glasgow tenement in the 60s, anyway!

[anneasquith]

Go to bed :-)

[jourdain2]

Brace up! As children we all used to sleep in houses that had frost patterns on the inside of the windows. :)
Joking apart I think we have gone soft. Our heating virtually disappeared (well it did, apart from 5 min. bursts) early in the year and we were freezing for months. Seriously, OH is 84 and he survived fine.
As you say, move heater into area needing heating. Have you got hot water? If so a hottie helps. Of course you can always huddled-up together. :)

[sapelesam]

Remember it well GG, brought up in a farmhouse in the darkest wilds of Northumberland. Only heating was coal fires in living room and kitchen. My bedroom had three outside walls, taking blankets off as I warmed up was like peeling an onion. Oh happy days.

[nailit]

my local council have just made it illegal for the homeless to sleep in a tent. Lucky you if you have another roof over ur head this winter.

[sapelesam]

Would love to go to bed Anne, bit of the old insomnia here, usually go at about 4.30am.

[anneasquith]

I understand, some press ups maybe ?

[sapelesam]

Wifey said no to the press ups.

[EDDIE51]

I well remember frost on the inside of windows and taps inside the house frozen solid. I remember having a glass of water beside my bed and in the morning finding it was frozen solid , not just ice on top, solid ice. The first house I remember had only an outside loo, it used to freeze solid for days at a time , how we managed I can't guess now.

[Jackdaw33]

Whereabouts in Northumberland, sapelesam?

[sapelesam]

Nailit, there is never a day goes buy that I am not grateful for the life that I have. I've worked long and hard, but there is aways the element of good fortune and being in the right place at the right time.

[anneasquith]

Maybe a small libation ?

[sapelesam]

Nearest town was Corbridge Jackdaw, we were about 8 miles north.

[tonyav]

Yep, frost patterns on the inside of the windows. Remember that well as a kid.
I had a car ( Ford Anglia ) years ago that the windows on the inside used to frost up !.

[sapelesam]

Small Anne, sorry, don't understand that concept.

[Jackdaw33]

I know Corbridge well. We used to go every August bank holiday to the Corbridge show.

[anneasquith]

Have a half bottle and be done with it then, the dancing around the lounge will heat you up and help you sleep.

[sapelesam]

Could do that Anne, I think there's nearly half a bottle left.

[anneasquith]

See, problem solved, don't be posting rubbish on here later though :-) hi Tony :-)

[cassa333]

You could always make an encampment by shifting the sofa and a chair or something into a corner or something and have your little heater trained into it?