Am I getting soft......or old?

[Snadger]

No central heating so sitting here shivering. (put the tumble drier on to keep warm)

As a kid we had a single coal fire in the living room and no central heating. If it was particularily cold at night my Ma used to stick my Dads overcoat on the bed for us as an extra layer of warmth.
Having said that, I don't ever recall being cold apart from first thing in the morning when five of us tried to crowd around a small fire!

Can only asume that the central heating has turned me soft or I'm getting too old to be without it!

We don't realise how much we rely on modern tecnology until we aint got it!

[sallym]

How true. Many moons ago I used to live on my own and often couldn't afford to turn the heating on. Never really noticed the cold then,but now I have heating turned up and still complain of a cold nose!!
Also never seemed to get a cold then, always seem to be fighting them off now.

[nelliegemini]

'course, we had it tough!

[piskieinboots]

neither soft nor old me lad - if we have comfort making technology, which we do, we would be stupid not to be comfortable wouldn't we - but we could equally make do without if we had to

Hark at her in her warm house!

[FionaH]

First time I slept in a house with centrl heating I was about 10, at a friends. Woke up with a dreadful stuffy nose, just wasnt used to it. My kids think I am joking when I tell them there used to be ice on the INSIDE of the windows

[bubblewrap]

Reminded of this
YouTube - Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen

[Snadger]

'course, we had it tough!

Eee aye lass..an we had reaal buaaaaa fer tea! (never tasted butter until I was married....never used marge since!

[Snadger]

......................... there used to be ice on the INSIDE of the windows

Cripes, you've just reminded me of that!

[BrideXIII]

I think it must be old, no offence to anyone, but this time of year when i was sixteen, i was wandering down the pub a mile away in a cap sleeved t-shirt, lycra pedal pushers and a smile, didn't feel the cold at all, now i go tewenty yards and look like a damned yeti coated in plastic.

[Snadger]

I think it must be old, no offence to anyone, but this time of year when i was sixteen, i was wandering down the pub a mile away in a cap sleeved t-shirt, lycra pedal pushers and a smile, didn't feel the cold at all, now i go tewenty yards and look like a damned yeti coated in plastic.

Amasing what a half bottle of vodka can do for your body temp..........

[BrideXIII]

First time I slept in a house with centrl heating I was about 10, at a friends. Woke up with a dreadful stuffy nose, just wasnt used to it. My kids think I am joking when I tell them there used to be ice on the INSIDE of the windows

omigods i remember that in the winter, jack frost and his patterns, and huffing on it to make a space so you could look outside. t'wernt all bad back then

[Snadger]

Now even the dogs looking at me as if to say " put the heating on Dad" And she's got a thick fur coat!

[BrideXIII]

Amasing what a half bottle of vodka can do for your body temp..........

vodka!! are you kidding, in those days i earned 12 1/2p an hour, worked friday evening for 4 hours and all day saturday from 8-7, no way i could afford vodka
, cheap cider to this day i can't stomach it anymore.

[BarleySugar]

I remember the frozen flannels by the sink and the net curtains frozen to the windows! Mum used to use the old stove style parafin stoves to heat the kitchen and use the top to cook on, or sometimes light all the gas burners if Dad wasn't around. We had an outside loo then too, not fun. We had to take a torch and didn't linger
We had the open fire in the living room, but that was only lit in the evenings, and the rest of the house was freezing. Hot water bottles to go to bed with though, and camp coffee or cocoa made with milk.
Better than where Mum grew up though, they had no electric or running water. I remember visiting Granny and watching the mossie lavae in the water tank. She used a very fine sieve, and all the water had to be boiled. If she ran out, next door had a well, but she didn't like to ask if she could cope.
OH has poor circulation, so it always seems too hot for me in the bedroom. I would love to need a hot water bottle now.

[Hilary B]

At Christmas I will be where there is no heating other than a log fire, on which we also do some of the cooking (there is a bottled-gas cooker) and no running hot water (off cold in the bathroom). Temperatures may, or may not, be warmer than UK. There may well be mornings that the gas won't work (bottled butane doesn't flow below 1 degree C). The coldest nights there I have had to rely on a furry hot water bottle called Gemma! Up a mountain (OK a small mountain) in Catalunya....