Brrrr! Who's got the heating on?

[dessiato]

I don't recall it being in that cold(NE coast). I camped the 1st and 3rd weekend of this month and was fine(and I feel the cold)

Cold and very wet the first two weeks in Edinburgh. Some days the temperature didn't get out of the higher teens. Hated it.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Not yet but I have liberated my slanket and am wearing a chunky cardigan!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Get an electric blanket you muppet!! and Fleecy PJs. They are wonderful. And I'm a good bit north of you

I wouldn't have an electric blanket due to the fire risk.

Hot water bottles for me.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Haven't had the heating on today as it was a fair bit warmer, and nice and sunny. Sat here in my undies at the moment.

 

[fishfinger]

I'm sitting here in shorts and a t shirt. The fan is on, and the back door is open. It's quite comfy.

 

[moodygirl86]

I'm in freezing cold Brrrmingham! I'd love to stick a radiator on, but I have to wait for the landlord to come and reset the boiler, and he's buggered off on holiday! (supposed to be flying back today). The boiler is in a locked cupboard in the communal hallway and only he has access to it. It runs out of credit every few months - April being the last time - but of course nobody's bothered with it in the summer. I'm going to ring him again tomorrow and make sure it's done because the nights are really chilly. I'm sitting here wearing an XL fleece over my regular clothes, which I never have to do until at least December (and that's even with the heating working).

On Thursday, I got an invitation to a job interview for Friday afternoon, so I washed my smartest shirt and trousers but had to put them on the kitchen windowsill with the window open to air them dry, due to no heating and no spare cash for the launderette. To dry them completely, I had to leave the window open all night. The kitchen was freezing next morning, not to mention all the fecking flies and moths that had got in.

 

[pogofish]

I don't recall it being in that cold(NE coast). I camped the 1st and 3rd weekend of this month and was fine(and I feel the cold)

Well its around 20C here today - so hardly that chilly, although it was a bit colder last night. I woke-up around 4am and had to pull the cover over me.

 

[pogofish]

This thread is pogo-proof®. I searched and the last heating thread was in 2013.

However it does once again raise the issue of all these aspirational types with central heating!

Oh and the most recent thread was actually 2014:

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/should-i-put-my-hoody-or-the-heating-on.319317/

 

[free spirit]

don't be silly, I'm sat here in shorts and t shirt, though I have brought the tomato plants in just in case.

 

[Looby]

I'm in a vest and pj bottoms, the back door and all windows are open and we've just put the fan on low. Think we're a bit hot and bothered after our curry.

 

[May Kasahara]

I came down this morning to find that my husband had put the heating on Usually I'm the lizardfoot and he's the one moaning about the cost.

And we're in the balmy south where every house is insulated with money.

 

[Thimble Queen]

I been under the duvet all day! But that's alcohol related rather than actually feeling cold

 

[farmerbarleymow]

However it does once again raise the issue of all these aspirational types with central heating!

Oh and the most recent thread was actually 2014:

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/should-i-put-my-hoody-or-the-heating-on.319317/

Yes, but that thread (which didn't appear in searches with 'heating' as a keyword) was asking should the OP put the heating on, as in, asking others to advise on whether they should do so. This thread is asking if other people have put their heating on. A different question entirely, so you're wrong.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Haven't had the heating on today as it was a fair bit warmer, and nice and sunny. Sat here in my undies at the moment.

 

[toblerone3]

I live in the balmy south and have put my central heating on in August.

 

[Greebo]

The heating's still off, but the windows are shut and the dehumidifier's on.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The heating's still off, but the windows are shut and the dehumidifier's on.

It was cooler this morning again, so I bunged it on for half an hour. The temperature is dropping perilously close to going under 20°C, so we're sliding into Autumn.

 

[Greebo]

It's already under 20C, there are 4 balls up on the living room's Gallileo thermometer.

 

[gentlegreen]

There's still hope based on last year :-
Autumn for me doesn't start until October when I start cycling to work / home in the dark.


http://www.afour.demon.co.uk/twelve_month/History.htm

 

[weltweit]

Jumper weather definitely unless you are exerting yourself in which case it isn't even that!

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm quite comfortable sitting here doing nothing at 20 degrees C in my lightly quilted jacket - though perhaps my toes aren't optimal so I'll go and get some holey socks to double up - and put on long trousers.
I have a lightweight cycling buff on my head.

 

[weltweit]

While it is jumper weather, it is the drizzle that I don't like.
It has been drizzling since early and have a few outdoor jobs I would like to do!

 

[8115]

No heating on but I am under a duvet watching Ferris Buellers Day Off

 

[Saffy]

I've taken to wearing a lovely cosy, knotted cape over my pyjamas and lounge wear.
Having a tv day but the heating is not going on till the end of October if we can help it, we do have a wood burning stove though so that might go on before then.

We've done really well and got back almost £300 from our power company last week after they read the meter.

 

[gentlegreen]

We've done really well and got back almost £300 from our power company last week after they read the meter.

Mine never do that - EDF ended up with £500 of mine before I switched and NPower are building up quite a deposit.
Mind you, the interest on £300 is vanishingly small...

 

[Saffy]

Well the £300 almost paid for the amount of cream teas I ate while on holiday, so that was a bonus.

 

[sptme]

 

[weepiper]

Cold and very wet the first two weeks in Edinburgh. Some days the temperature didn't get out of the higher teens. Hated it.

That's not cold you tit. I was at work in shorts the first two weeks of August.

 

[dessiato]

That's not cold you tit. I was at work in shorts the first two weeks of August.

I'm at home now. I'm in the bedroom, the coolest room in the flat, it's 31C. I'm in shorts and a t-shirt. In Scotland I was wearing a jumper and a jacket every time I went out. Not only was it cold, but it seemed to never stop raining. The weather was as bad as an average winter here.

 

[maomao]

That's not cold you tit. I was at work in shorts the first two weeks of August.

The high teens is cold for summer for people in most parts of the world and people from colder climes are far more accustomed to those temperatures than the rest of us. I was in Scotland in the first week of August this year and while it was the nicest weather I've seen in Scotland for many years I wouldn't have wanted to be in shorts. And while it was warm in the sun I was glad I had a hoodie in my bag.