Feelin chilly?

[Jemisa]

I've been feeling chilly all day, and guess what I've just switched the electric blanket on
(yes in August) can't wait to get into that warm cosy bed.
Has anybody else put their EB on??

jem

[poodicat]

Hi jem,no aint that cold here...

[Buenchico]

This morning I was looking at the weather forecast and thinking about my fuel bills. I resolved to try to stick to my usual rule of not putting any heating on until Bonfire Night. Most years I've managed to do that. (When I lived in a terraced house, where a lot of my neighbour's heat ended up in my home, I've kept the heating off until mid-January). But last year I seem to remember clicking the 'on' switch well before my target date, so perhaps I won't make it through to November again this year!

[Jemisa]

Chris, Not putting the heating on till January?? My God I would have died of hyprethermia by then. But I know what you mean.
Hubby & I have both given up smoking soo now we can afford to keep warm.
I used to be a 'hot' person but now a few years on I notice the cold more.(sad innit?)
jem

[poodicat]

So proud of you both giving up smoking..

[poodicat]

I have a electric duvet...

[Buenchico]

Jem:
I sincerely hope that you're not a health professional who has to deal with diabetic patients. There's a massive (fatal!) difference between 'hypo' and 'hyper'. If you had 'hyperthermia' you'd be suffering from too much heat, not too little!!!
(Methinks you meant 'hypothermia'!).

I spent half a term (January and February) teaching in a classroom where, because of a boiler problem, the highest recorded temperature was 14C. (Typical morning temperatures were around 4C, usually rising to no more than 12C on a good day). Perhaps that hardened me to low temperatures?

Even colder though, was the best lecture I ever attended at college. It was a freezing cold day, so that we students had to struggle across the ice to the portakabin where the lecture room was. It was the first lecture of the day, and there had been a college 'ball' the night before (so everyone had a hangover). The lecturer decided that we all needed waking up, so he turned off all of the heating and opened all of the windows. He then picked up a piece of chalk, walked to the blackboard and commenced with '"Let x be a member of the set K, such that x is a pussycat". 2 hours later (still with all the windows open and with the heating turned off, on a day when the highest recorded temperature was -4C) we gave him a standing ovation for the brilliant lecture which he'd just delivered! (RIP John Bouchier).

[cupid04]

I warm my feet on my husbands bum! He is more warm-blooded than I.

[Buenchico]

Or, maybe, Cupid04, it's just far easier to put your feet on your hubbie's nice warm bum than it is to put them on your own equally warm bum? ;-)

[cupid04]

I'd have to be a contortionist to do that!!!

[Buenchico]

'Nesh', Steve?

I've not heard that word since I lived in Yorkshire! So whereabouts are you then?

[Jemisa]

Chris - I am a diabetic and i do know (from experience) the difference between hyper and hypo, but its getting late and I'm tyred, but you knew what I meant.

Loved your 'cold' stories. I think now the blanket has cooked enough I'll say goodnight to you all.. - nite - nite.

jem

[Buenchico]

Oh well,Steve, I suppose that some poor souls have to live there ;-)

[Buenchico]

Sine you've reminded me that you're diabetic, Jem, I'm pleased that you seem not to have taken any offence about my hypo/hyper comments! I'm the world's ultimate pedant!
;-)

Sleep well ;-)

[Jemisa]

Yes Chris I have noticed. From no/ 2

jem