The Random Thread

[JoM]

Too right Saundra! Another here who grew up with only one coal fire to heat the whole house - we shouldn’t be going back to those days! As soon as it’s cold enough, mine is going on - I think we’re a bit warmer down here in SW than Yorkshire ((((x))))

Our house was a new build council house when we moved in, it was either 1970 or 71, and there was the coal fire and three radiators. One in the living room, one in the hall and the third was in the main bedroom. Until Julie left home in 1976 my room was the smallest at the back of the house and wasn’t too bad (still ice on the window though) but then I was given her room on the front of the house and it was freezing.
When I was little I’d get dressed and undressed in front of the fire but when I was older I was allowed a fan heater in my room in a morning, I’d switch it on and then dash across to the bathroom while the room warmed up but any longer than 10 minutes in there and my mom would go into my room and turn it off.

As soon as I left home my parents upgraded the heating and had a radiator fitted in ‘my’ room (we’d had a gas fire fitted years earlier though when they bought the house through the Right To Buy scheme)

[Workingman]

One thing we did when we bought our quite large semi in 1989 was re-establish the downstairs rooms. It was all open-plan - kitchen, dining area, living area, lounge. It cost a fortune to heat in winter and when interest rates went up again something had to be done to cut costs.

I bet quite a few who now have open plan wish they hadn't and are thinking of creating smaller areas to heat even if they are only using concertina doors or curtains so that a few radiators can be turned off.

[JoM]

That was a mistake we made at our old house Frank.
It originally had a separate living room, dining room and kitchen (although I suppose the living room on the front would’ve only been used on special occasions at one time and seemed that way when we bought it from an elderly lady). We had a kitchen extension built across the back of the house, because we had the world’s smallest kitchen, and then made it completely open plan.
The house was never warm afterwards.

The people who bought it liked it for that reason, the man said he walked past daily and loved the look of it.
Bet they’re regretting it now.

[JanB]

Dear me, I almost fell over, laughing.

We went outside with a beer, earlier, to sit by the pool and enjoy the last afternoon sun.

Grumpy went first, sat down and immediately got up, with a wet bum

Not sat there since we had the rain, and we had the cheap seats out, so no drain holes

He tried to dry off, but gave up and I emptied the chairs off, dried them and left them in the sun for a couple of minutes, before I sat down

[TheOstrich]

Jan

Spent an hour this afternoon with Mrs O going through the contents of our medical cabinet.

Never realised we had so much stuff with expiry dates in 2012 .....

[JanB]

Never realised we had so much stuff with expiry dates in 2012 .....

We're probably the same

[miasmum]

Jan

Spent an hour this afternoon with Mrs O going through the contents of our medical cabinet.

Never realised we had so much stuff with expiry dates in 2012 .....

Sounds like my spice drawer

[JoM]

Frank Turner tickets booked for Wolverhampton for January

[JanB]

We have been warned since yesterday about heavy, heavy rain, high winds. Major disruption. Happened up north this morning and we have been waiting.....

A mizzle of rain this afternoon, but we now have a thunderstorm and lots of lovely rain

i love lying in bed, listening to it, hammering on the roof

[Osc]

I’m 73 years old and in all my life, I don’t remember thunder and lightning in this country like we’ve had today - and it’s come back for another go