God bless the electric blanket.

[Suff]

I bought a dual control blanket that fits my bed which is a caravan bed so it's a bit shorter than the normal.

This one has 3 power settings and it goes auto off after 3 hours.

I saw all these wonderful £100 plus blankets with "automation". I chose to buy a £40 one. Then I also bought 4x Meross smart energy monitoring plugs. I use these a lot in France. I can literally program hundreds of programs into them. I can set the off time, I can have it going on every 2 hours and off after 30 minutes all night if I want. Very easily.

2 of them will do the blanket. The other two I already needed. One for my Server which will live in the van now and one for my TV and other living room stuff like the wifi router that runs the printer (Old HP, no 5ghz).

I think this will do what I need best. My feet have been getting really cold at night sitting at my desk. So I bought a heated foot muff. I have just finished building a "house" for my washing machine outside. It is heavily insulated with polystyrene and sterling board plus I have a greenhouse heater to go with the smart thermostat I bought. That should stop it freezing. The left over polystyrene is going under the floor under my feet as soon as I get some silicone and an applicator.

Sadly one of the retaining bolts on the washing machine was bent when I took it out. The thing is screeching and clanging when spinning. It's going back.

I guess that's the end of the purchases for now.

[Workingman]

Sometimes needs must.

I have a couple of programmable timers with built in thermometer I got years ago when I thought that electric convection heaters in specific rooms would be cheaper than the central heating. How wrong that was! I just use the one, now, in the kitchen because it does not have a CH radiator and is on the cold, north, side of the flat.

We have to be adaptable.

[meriad]

I love mine when it's cold.... But I switch mine on half an hour before I go to bed and have it on medium or high and then when I go to bed I switch it off. If the bed is warm when I get in then I'm fine - I don't need it on for the rest of the night.

I didn't need it last winter as the room I'm using now as the bedroom (used to be the lounge before I did the alterations), is so much warmer than the room I was using previously.