It;s cold

Temperature over here has dropped drastically over the last few days- to me it's still not cold enough to put the heating on full blast (Dave has been freezing for days- we are thermally incompatible he'll claim to be dying of hypothermia when I just put a warm jumper on- alas he likes the room to be so hot I nearly pass out! Thankfully my PC is in the bedroom so he's in the living room with a fan heater and I am in here)

Spirit thinks its cold as well- you'd think with all her fur she's be okay but being tiny she's taken to living under the duvet- comes out for food and to use her box then bolts back under the duvet.

It must have been cold this morning- I had Spirit curled up under the duvet hugging my left foot and Bonnie curled up on top of my right foot!!!!

I think it's time to put the heating on!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

"Lesley Madigan" wrote in message
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Temperature over here has dropped drastically over the last few days- to me
it's still not cold enough to put the heating on full blast (Dave has been
freezing for days- we are thermally incompatible he'll claim to be dying of
hypothermia when I just put a warm jumper on- alas he likes the room to be
so hot I nearly pass out! Thankfully my PC is in the bedroom so he's in the
living room with a fan heater and I am in here)

Spirit thinks its cold as well- you'd think with all her fur she's be okay
but being tiny she's taken to living under the duvet- comes out for food and
to use her box then bolts back under the duvet.

It must have been cold this morning- I had Spirit curled up under the duvet
hugging my left foot and Bonnie curled up on top of my right foot!!!!

I think it's time to put the heating on!

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It's nippy here too. We got -6C on Sunday night. Luckily neither Boyfie
nor I noticed it as were both under our own duvets at the time.
I 've never lived in a house with central heating until I had to live with
my aunt for a while. I could not stand the heat and had to take myself out
into the garden to cool down.

On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 1:00:33 AM UTC, Christina Websell wrote:

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I 've never lived in a house with central heating until I had to live with
my aunt for a while.

I find running it half way up the thermostat knob makes the place warm without it being too hot- I can't stand too hot- We have a little fan heater in the living room for Dave (apart from anything else at the moment applying heat to his feet relieves the pain when he has his dressings changed) but my PC is in the bedroom so if he wants things hotter in the living room then I can sit in the bedroom

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:35:53 -0800 (PST), Lesley Madigan
wrote:

On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 1:00:33 AM UTC, Christina Websell wrote:

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I 've never lived in a house with central heating until I had to live with
my aunt for a while.

I find running it half way up the thermostat knob makes the place warm without it being too hot- I can't stand too hot- We have a little fan heater in the living room for Dave (apart from anything else at the moment applying heat to his feet relieves the pain when he has his dressings changed) but my PC is in the bedroom so if he wants things hotter in the living room then I can sit in the bedroom

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

I'm starting to get used to Florida weather. It's end of November and
it was almost chilly enough last night to bike in something other than
shorts and a T-Shirt. But that's what I wore anyway.

The rain is still weird. It rains in one place but not another. I
turned onto a little road that we use for a mile or so as a shortcut,
and it started raining hard. When I turned off it a few minutes
laters, it stoppedd raining. That isn't unusual at all around here.

On 11/26/2015 5:35 AM, Judith Latham wrote:
In article , Lesley
Madigan wrote:
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 1:00:33 AM UTC, Christina Websell
wrote:

.
I 've never lived in a house with central heating until I had to live
with my aunt for a while.

I find running it half way up the thermostat knob makes the place warm
without it being too hot- I can't stand too hot- We have a little fan
heater in the living room for Dave (apart from anything else at the
moment applying heat to his feet relieves the pain when he has his
dressings changed) but my PC is in the bedroom so if he wants things
hotter in the living room then I can sit in the bedroom

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

It certainly went cold very suddenly. I don't like being too hot either,
it makes me feel ill. When I was at work, the other women there were
always turning the heating up. If it gets a bit too cool during the day I
put the heating on for an hour but as I'm usually doing things I don't
need to. During the evening we have it on as we don't have any other form
of heating. Sootie is not impressed with the cold, wind or rain and spends
most of her time curled up asleep somewhere.

Judith

Right now it's 66F/19C. It feels fantastic!

Being too hot makes me ill, too. Where I worked in Tennessee the
thermostats were pretty much just for show. You could only vary the
temp a degree or two in either direction. This was to prevent folks who
were cold-natured from turning the place into a sauna. They could
always put on a sweater or a jacket... there's only so much you can take
off, especially in public.

Jill

"Lesley Madigan" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 1:00:33 AM UTC, Christina Websell wrote:

..
I 've never lived in a house with central heating until I had to live with
my aunt for a while.

I find running it half way up the thermostat knob makes the place warm
without it being too hot- I can't stand too hot- We have a little fan heater
in the living room for Dave (apart from anything else at the moment applying
heat to his feet relieves the pain when he has his dressings changed) but my
PC is in the bedroom so if he wants things hotter in the living room then I
can sit in the bedroom

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I'd kind of like to have central heating as a back up. The problem with
having a woodburner that runs three radiators upstairs as the only source of
heat is that it goes out overnight for one thing. When it got down to -6c
the other night, my bathroom was down to 2C when I got up.. another thing is
that if I go out for more than a couple of hours, so does the woodburner so
it's pointless to light it.
To have gas central heating put in would mean the upstairs radiators would
have be removed and they are connected to the woodburner that somehow feeds
hot water to them without a pump. I have no idea how it works as it was the
previous owner of the house that installed it.
It's nice to be green ;-) but he moved away after 4 years. Into a centrally
heated house.
I was in all day today, so I lit the woodburner. It takes quite a few hours
to get up to speed but it's now 22c, only achieved by shutting this room off
from the kitchen. It's fabulous.

Boyfie grows a huge coat in the winter and I dress like the Michelin Man -
we're used to being a bit nippy. I don't think it harms Boyfie - he never
gets fleas, they can't survive my house during the winter even if he ever
got one, it would say "well, that was a bad idea.."
Tigger & Maisie, my brother's cat & dog, always have fleas. It's a real
problem and they do everything they can, they bomb the house, they shampoo
them with flea shampoo, they use Spot on flea treatment, but they still have
them because they have central heating and their house is hot all the year
round, which suits fleas.
I once came back with a flea from their house on my clothing one Christmas.
I went up to the bathroom for a wash (not knowing the flea was there) It
jumped into the water and committed suicide. I like to think it noted the
difference in temperature and thought "well, best die in warm water than
freeze to death in this house" g

Tweed

"dgk" wrote in message
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I'm starting to get used to Florida weather. It's end of November and
it was almost chilly enough last night to bike in something other than
shorts and a T-Shirt. But that's what I wore anyway.

The rain is still weird. It rains in one place but not another. I
turned onto a little road that we use for a mile or so as a shortcut,
and it started raining hard. When I turned off it a few minutes
laters, it stoppedd raining. That isn't unusual at all around here.

Sounds like you are liking the move, what does Baby think of it?
Tweed

"Judith Latham" wrote in message
...
In article , Lesley
Madigan wrote:
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 1:00:33 AM UTC, Christina Websell
wrote:

.
I 've never lived in a house with central heating until I had to live
with my aunt for a while.

I find running it half way up the thermostat knob makes the place warm
without it being too hot- I can't stand too hot- We have a little fan
heater in the living room for Dave (apart from anything else at the
moment applying heat to his feet relieves the pain when he has his
dressings changed) but my PC is in the bedroom so if he wants things
hotter in the living room then I can sit in the bedroom

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

It certainly went cold very suddenly. I don't like being too hot either,
it makes me feel ill. When I was at work, the other women there were
always turning the heating up. If it gets a bit too cool during the day I
put the heating on for an hour but as I'm usually doing things I don't
need to. During the evening we have it on as we don't have any other form
of heating. Sootie is not impressed with the cold, wind or rain and spends
most of her time curled up asleep somewhere.

Judith

Boyfie has only recently discovered that when the woodburner is on, the rug
in front of it is really warm. He sits on it, and turns to me like "why
didn't you tell me about this before?"
Tweed


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Judith Latham
Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK.

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:00:43 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:


"dgk" wrote in message
.. .
I'm starting to get used to Florida weather. It's end of November and
it was almost chilly enough last night to bike in something other than
shorts and a T-Shirt. But that's what I wore anyway.

The rain is still weird. It rains in one place but not another. I
turned onto a little road that we use for a mile or so as a shortcut,
and it started raining hard. When I turned off it a few minutes
laters, it stoppedd raining. That isn't unusual at all around here.

Sounds like you are liking the move, what does Baby think of it?
Tweed


Ah. I don't think that she's ever going to be really at home indoors.
She's mostly afraid of me, but I can pet and brush her sometimes.
Usually when I first get up she comes out from under the bed and I'll
sit on the rug and she'll come near enough for me to give her a quick
touch or two. Then either she darts away and goes back under the bed,
or she lets me brush her for a while.

She does seem to roam around a lot at night. I think that the other
cats adapted to a daytime schedule since that's when I'm active, but
of course they're also active at night and sleep most of the day. I
suppose Baby was always on a night schedule and spent most of her days
sleeping somewhere.

I always thought that I was giving her dinner when I fed her before I
went to sleep, and breakfast in the morning when I headed off to work,
but I guess I had it backwards.

Still, she's safe, warm, dry, and has constant food. Her tail is often
up in the air, so I guess that means that at least sometimes she's
happy.

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:09:13 -0000, "Christina Websell"
wrote:


"Judith Latham" wrote in message
...
In article , Lesley
Madigan wrote:
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 1:00:33 AM UTC, Christina Websell
wrote:

.
I 've never lived in a house with central heating until I had to live
with my aunt for a while.

I find running it half way up the thermostat knob makes the place warm
without it being too hot- I can't stand too hot- We have a little fan
heater in the living room for Dave (apart from anything else at the
moment applying heat to his feet relieves the pain when he has his
dressings changed) but my PC is in the bedroom so if he wants things
hotter in the living room then I can sit in the bedroom

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

It certainly went cold very suddenly. I don't like being too hot either,
it makes me feel ill. When I was at work, the other women there were
always turning the heating up. If it gets a bit too cool during the day I
put the heating on for an hour but as I'm usually doing things I don't
need to. During the evening we have it on as we don't have any other form
of heating. Sootie is not impressed with the cold, wind or rain and spends
most of her time curled up asleep somewhere.

Judith

Boyfie has only recently discovered that when the woodburner is on, the rug
in front of it is really warm. He sits on it, and turns to me like "why
didn't you tell me about this before?"
Tweed



It is funny how they like those warm spots. My A/C is set at 77F and
that's what it is all the time. But when the sun pours into the
Florida room (floor to ceiling glass windows/doors) it gets really
warm and several of the cats will be lying in the sunlight just
roasting away.