Roughing it........

[zazen999]

How'd you know?

I put a penny in the slot

Aye, put ya had to put a penny in the slot to get it to work!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, see - it worked.

[Glutton4...]

Could be worse...........I cudda posted a piccie!

No, please spare us!

[VirginVegGrower]

Coal fire? Come here...you can have the sofa and a fire every day

[Snadger]

No, please spare us!

Long john poser: 1899 « Out of the box

[Glutton4...]

LOL Snadge - I have something similar in navy blue fleece - think large Baby-Gro!

[Snadger]

LOL Snadge - I have something similar in navy blue fleece - think large Baby-Gro!

I've got a tatty work pair of navy blue padded 'Dickies' overalls. We've just got a new female boss and she asked what size my 'Ronper' suit was when I asked for a replacement!

[cptncrackoff]

Back to basics, brilliant!
We had no radiators, no heating at all, just a small fire in the living room that we lit if it got really cold, north facing bedroom, single glazing, not allowed to shut the window in case it steamed up, scraping the ice off the inside, those were the days! If you had jam, you didnt have butter as well!
We have it too easy now, not like when I was little...no, not little, younger! lol

[Florence Fennel]

I remember as a little girl sitting eating my breakfast in front of a two-bar coal effect electric fire while my mum lit the coal fire if my dad was on nights. When he was on mornings it was blazing away when I got up. No central heating, so when we had a bath in the tin bath in the kitchen, my mum used to put the oven and the gas rings on!

[Glutton4...]

You were lucky...

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube

[Aberdeenplotter]

No central heating, frozen windows, linoleum floors, it was bleeding freezing. Thank goodness for progress.

[Snadger]

To put my serious head on.............I think its rather humbling at Christmas to realise how well off we are when there are so many homeless people who haven't even got a leccie fire to warm themselves............

( Go on then glutton, I'll say it for you.............*pukes*)

[Glutton4...]

I agree, Snadge. Completely.

[snohare]

My idea of a warm winter's evening at present is one where I wear less than four layers while I type at the keyboard. A cold one sees me put the panel heater on for more than two hours, and I wear a hat. (But I am trying to cut back on overheads, of course. )
Since I forgot to close the windows before going to stay in town overnight yesterday, I now find it rather... bracing to walk into the bedroom, which is currently at a balmy/barmy 47 degrees. (Fahrenheit, not Centigrade ! )
To be honest, it doesn't bother me, except that I worry about damp affecting the house and my books, and I wish the dog could lie by a fire as she so evidently enjoys doing elsewhere given the chance.
But for myself, I have spent enough time outdoors in the snow, I just think of this as a healthier lifestyle in the long run, it keeps the cardiovascular system tuned up. (Pity it burns so many calories doing it, but hey ho.)
Discussing accomodation for the family at Braemar with my folks who live there (it's already covered with snow) I offered to sleep out in the summer house down at the bottom of the garden. I have plenty of the right gear, it would only be to sleep, I'd think nothing of it. You'd have thought I was suggesting I could take a sheep down there "to keep me warm", from the way my parents responded !
<Sigh> I was really hoping to have a nice quiet hidey hole to snooze in, away from my two ADHD nephews...sometimes chilling out is hard to do !

[veggiechicken]

Chilling out seems to come naturally to you Snohare. Can't you take your dog to the summerhouse for a cwtch - slightly more acceptable than a sheep but just as warm!

[snohare]

To put my serious head on.............I think its rather humbling at Christmas to realise how well off we are when there are so many homeless people who haven't even got a leccie fire to warm themselves............

I know what you mean Snadger. I spent yesterday and most of today, sorting and wrapping shoeboxes of gifts for the homeless, at a charity I used to volunteer at regularly. I must have wrapped...well, a lot. Two wardrobe sized cupboards ended up full, and there was a room with boxes stacked in every corner. I was determined to finish, but every time I got down to half a dozen boxes, someone would come in with another twenty or thirty !
On the one hand, it was uplifting to see how much care and thought had gone into many of the boxes. Matching glove, hat and scarf sets for the women, lots of nice toiletries, sometimes something humorous (singing penguin, anyone ?). Sweets, hairbrushes, scrunchies or hairbands; you could see that folk were really thinking about how to make the recipient feel better.
But...there wasn't so much for the men. Excitement was a posh razor. Ironically, men far outweigh the women in the ranks of the homeless; the one time I was in the dropin centre on Xmas Day, there was a constant stream of men coming and going, but only two lassies all day. Why ? Because women are better at maintaining support networks amongst family and friends, so are less likely to become homeless (being solitary makes you at high risk, regardless of all other factors) and they get housed quicker because they are deemed vulnerable.
What struck me about these boxes was that for some people, they would be sitting in a B&B or a furnitureless flat, and that would be the only present they received this Christmas; a pair of acrylic gloves, some chocolate and a tin of soup would be the high point of their day. And there were scores of boxes... well over a hundred.
So I had fun trying to make their day better by putting in a couple of extra things, and like I say it was uplifting to see how much generosity there still is in such hard times; but I felt like King Canute, humbled by the tide.
And that's in Scotland, where the legislation is far nicer to the homeless than in England !