Stubborn or what??

[Drisgirl]

I refuse as a point of principle to have my central heating on so put a fleece on when I venture out the living room.
Its officially baltic where i stay in Scotland.

Does anyone else see the point in not heating a house for the sake of one person?

I had a letter to say that their prices had risen something like 293% in the last year and dont i know it.

What about all the old biddies -man i feel for them -I even sleep on the sofa at times as I know my bedroom is going to be freezing.

Bad craic !!!

[Bathsheba]

Hiya Dris. That reminds me- how's the old lady doing? Is she still in hospital? x

[theonlyone]

Why don't you just heat the rooms you use ?
Just turn the rads off ...or turn the thermostat
down ?

[yummymum]

oh i love it went its nice and warm, i only h ave the heating on in living room though

[petal54]

se your point of view,so long as you not become ill!!wish i could hibernate for 6 months,save on food too

[bigmamma]

I tend to stay in one room in the day with the fire on and the rest of the house with no heating due to the cost of it . But it's a very damp house and it's been brought to my attention that I should put the central heating on low to take the chill off .

[stokemaveric]

why dont you get an halogen heater drisgirl?they are cheap enough to have on.......

[bigmamma]

I have an electric heater in each of the bedrooms , handy to warm the room up before getting to bed . My bathroom is done out as for disability and it's a wet room with a very efficient wall blow heater that heats it up very quickly thankfully .

[Drisgirl]

hey bath -she's still in hosp -will talk to you soon xx

H has just said the same thing and i have just gone ound and turned the radiators off which arent needed-have to say they were all mostly turned off.

Stoke -I think i would have the halogen heaters -reminds me of when i first married 29yrs ago and we had a wee flat and we woke every morning (in the winter of course) to the water solid ice in the basin -we survived wih paraffin heaters-happy days really.

BM -thats shocking given your health -surely something can be done about that.I am vexxed for you hun-really xxx

I absolutely cant stand this cold anymore and have relented but I am concerned for BM -please see if there is something which can be done for you-surely there must be something given the degree of cold which is sweeping the country -heres a big hug to help keep you warm in the meantime (((xx))))

[Drisgirl]

oops cross posted BM -im glad you have things sorted i was very woried there xx

[bigmamma]

Yes dris hun , my upstairs is ok , it's downstairs that's damp and cold . I have noticed my chest has got worse since the colder wether and I'm sure it's due to the damp walls and floors . The housing association came to look over a year ago but still haven't done the work needed .

[Ethel]

Nobody needs to heat the whole house. I've only had central heating in ithe last 20 years; before then the bedrooms were never, ever heated.

Used to wake up to Jack Frost on the windows and scuttle downstairs to get dressed in the warm.

A damp house is a different thing altogether. :(

[justmetoo]

damp can affect your health..stay warm, my mum used to keep a flask of tea with her so she didnt need to move, I thought that was worse, but she wouldnt listen

[Drisgirl]

Yeah well im lucky to have my health and just a cold house -daresay like everyones elses.

I still dont feel inclined to go through to a cold bedroom at the moment-so will try to ontain my heat in one room.

Damp is a seriously different busines -my daughter who is only 19 has had a prob with upstairs tenant and a burst pipe for 5 months -she owns her flat but Environmental Health have been involved and have just in the past 2 weeks invoked something which enforced the landlord to take action -however my daughter now has pleurisy and I blame that on the damp conditions she is living in -insurance wouldnt touch the claim until it was quite rightly dealt with.

Poor wee soul -cant even go to see her as i have something as well and she has to get fit to work.Im just letting her sleep it off with the antis and the painkillers..

[justmetoo]

oh no poor thing, thats bad, I really hope shes better soon...

[Drisgirl]

Thank you -she is very poorly ATM but has a massive anti to take just twice a day-hopefully its been caught in time.
I feel wretched for not going through-of course I would if she took a really bad turn-but I have to keep away as I have to work in order for me to subsidise her -its tricky so i dont want to put too much pressure on her.She is phoning tho.
Thanks for your kind words justmetoo -its a very difficult time x