mariesnowgoose
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I here a monty python coming on here.
..or even pre-Monty Python!
I here a monty python coming on here.
Never wore PJS since i was about 8 years old.
oh yes certainly did......also had icicles hanging from the inside window in the kitchen......Ah but did you have frost on the inside of your bedroom windows?
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.21c, blimey Trev that's like the tropics. 18c is more than enough.
since when was a government recommendation anything to be trusted or taken notice of.....probably asked the oil and gas cos for their recommendation.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
One tuff cookie 10cThe 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.
So had we a alladin in baf room.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.
Most folk in ireland only baf once a week but all over wash each day.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 !
One tuff cookie 10c
When i were young i ate toast with my bare hands,beat that.Clydebuilt
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.Most folk in ireland only baf once a week but all over wash each day.
topped with sugar instead of jam.......toasted picklets/crumpets held on a ford over the open fire.....When i were young i ate toast with my bare hands,beat that.
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.topped with sugar instead of jam.......toasted picklets/crumpets held on a ford over the open fire.....