Hot water bottle

[mariesnowgoose]

I here a monty python coming on here.

..or even pre-Monty Python!

 

[campervanannie]

Never wore PJS since i was about 8 years old.

 

[trixie88]

Ah but did you have frost on the inside of your bedroom windows?

oh yes certainly did......also had icicles hanging from the inside window in the kitchen......
bedroom was usually warm.....as we had a very large airing cupboard with a big hot water tank in the room.......always ample hot water.......fire was always on the go, which heated the hot water.....yorkist range did a good job...........when it was very cold....mum would put the sheets on the tank to warm them before we got into bed........

 

[REC]

Going to sound like an "old git" now, but I said something about jack frost painting on the inside of windows and my grandson had no idea! Showed him pictures, but they just don't get the cold rooms now! We used to all sit close to the open fire, no fitted carpets, chairs holding the edges of the rug down ( it lifted when windy due to gaps in floorboards). Used to run to the loo and back as quickly as possible (outside loo) as only main room heated.

 

[Fisherman]

Don’t need a hot water bottle or an electric blanket.
My wife does the job just fine

 

[trevskoda]

21c, blimey Trev that's like the tropics. 18c is more than enough.

Gov rec temp 21c ,bed room 18c ,hospitals 27c.this is why you are adjusting it all the time which uses more fuel,let it run 24/7 in winter as it uses less fuel where as start stop burns more,bit like a car in traffic compared to a car doing 55 steady.

 

[Fisherman]

The Truma inet system is very accurate.
I now keep the van hooked up and set the heating to 6C.
Its rarely on and this uses very little power, and it prevents any residual water from freezing. When in the van I find 19C to be fine lowering the temperature to 10C when it’s time for bed.

 

[ricc]

Gov rec temp 21c ,bed room 18c ,hospitals 27c.this is why you are adjusting it all the time which uses more fuel,let it run 24/7 in winter as it uses less fuel where as start stop burns more,bit like a car in traffic compared to a car doing 55 steady.View attachment 74809

since when was a government recommendation anything to be trusted or taken notice of.....probably asked the oil and gas cos for their recommendation.

 

[caledonia]

I remember burning my bare arse on the paraffin heater while getting my clothes on before going to school. We had a paraffin heater in the kitchen and bathroom to stop the pipes freezing.

 

[Fisherman]

We lived in a tenement in Finieston in Glasgow with a shared toilet between three flats.
If you needed the loo in the middle of the night you had to take some newspaper with you out on to the close and hope that nobody else was there.
If you forgot to take some newspaper you were in real bother.

 

[colinm]

I don't recall much about my first house as a child, I know we had a pump shared between 4 houses, or on the road there was a tap with mains water. Toilet was a 'bucket and chuck it' at bottom of garden, and no electric.
At my first school we had 'bucket and chuck it' toilets until the new school opened in 1967..

 

[trevskoda]

The Truma inet system is very accurate.
I now keep the van hooked up and set the heating to 6C.
Its rarely on and this uses very little power, and it prevents any residual water from freezing. When in the van I find 19C to be fine lowering the temperature to 10C when it’s time for bed.

One tuff cookie 10c

 

[trevskoda]

I remember burning my bare arse on the paraffin heater while getting my clothes on before going to school. We had a paraffin heater in the kitchen and bathroom to stop the pipes freezing.

So had we a alladin in baf room.

 

[trevskoda]

I love hearing your stories of younger days and how different it is today. (I am not forgetting that some people are still living in cold and damp conditions today ) I can recall no central heating and having a gas fire in one room and a front room that was never used apart from Christmas with an electric bar fire in it.
I can't really remember pre duvet days at my house though I can remember at grandparents having a sheet then several blankets topped with a quilted cover.
One of my grandparents had what was essentially an outside toilet but had a corrugated roof on it which made it seem part of the house.

My Mother in law told me how her aunt had no running water in the house . There was a shared outside toilet and designated washing days .

I recall not having a bath every day and I think as a young child it was maybe once a week as I vague recollection of 'bath night' sharing bathwater. We had a shower hose that fitted over the taps but usually, my mother would just use a jug and rinse my hair with the bathwater !

Most folk in ireland only baf once a week but all over wash each day.

 

[trevskoda]

I started of in Ballymoney until 2/3 3 bed semi all amenities,moved to glengormley glebe rd and same type of house,then at 17 moved where i am now in a bungalow with single glass and parkray background heat 4 rads though my grandad never put much coal on and house was like a polar bears den,when he died me and a mate installed full central heating with all bells and whistles,gran loves it and cursed grandad for not letting us do it years back,no more coal and cleaning for my gran.

 

[Fisherman]

One tuff cookie 10c

Clydebuilt

 

[trevskoda]

Clydebuilt

When i were young i ate toast with my bare hands,beat that.

 

[trixie88]

Most folk in ireland only baf once a week but all over wash each day.

as a younger child......twas a tin bath in front of fire..........or stood in the large square butler type sink....whilst getting jugs of water poured over me.
gosh when you think back.....eh/....young ones today ...dont know their born.........would they ever survive is we had to go back to those days
i recall mum and dad telling me what their childhood was like........and thought how lucky we were...running water, elec. gas. etc,......indoor toilet, bath.........
neighbours were more of an extended family,,,,,,,,the street.more of a community...everyone helped each other....so different today......

 

[trixie88]

When i were young i ate toast with my bare hands,beat that.

topped with sugar instead of jam.......toasted picklets/crumpets held on a ford over the open fire.....

 

[trevskoda]

topped with sugar instead of jam.......toasted picklets/crumpets held on a ford over the open fire.....

You were lucky,dont know what picklets are mind you,but at week end a treat was salt and shake crisps with the we blue bag of salt in bag,how the world changed when cheese/onion & smoky bacon flavor landed in shops,tato ireland in fifties being the first to do so.