Anyone else put their heating on. I am freezing.
Nope not till Oct 1 - another jumper might be in order ;)
I am already wearing a fleece, and it is August. Better get my hot water bottle and go to bed.
Two fleeces ;D
That's Baa-aad
;D
Whereabouts are you Borlotti? It's quite mild here in Edinburgh, although very wet. Heating certainly not required yet.
We had to put our heating on at our caravan last weekend.Only for a short time but very strange to have to do it in August.
Just wet and warm now :)
I did put ours on for a couple of hours one day last week- unbelievable!
Mine is broken, been waiting 3 weeks for it to be sorted, so have no hot water unless we use the immersion >:( So even if I wanted to put it on...........I couldn't! :( Lots of fleeces and socks here.
Still wearing t-shirts here & sleeping with the windows open a bit. Not until my birthday, is the aim (8th Oct)...
That is my Daughters birthday ;D
Quote from: betula on August 20, 2008, 08:13:26
That is my Daughters birthday ;D
It's a pretty good day for a birthday - always done me well!
Enfield, north London, but think I was so cold because I stood under a tree on the allotment, got soaking wet and cycled home, then emptied the carriers on my bike which were full of water and a few floating beans. Weather a bit better today, no rain, but no sun. Anyway off to the Italian lakes in September with the Ramblers for a walking holiday, so hopefully weather should be OK.
Quote from: OllieC on August 20, 2008, 08:11:52
Still wearing t-shirts here & sleeping with the windows open a bit.
I sleep with the window open (usually wide open) all the year round. I love to feel the cold air on my face at night. My spring/autumn duvet will go on in a month or so, and I never need a winter one. I think I have my own built-in heating.
It's been cool in the house in the early evenings a few times, but we've shut the loft hatch now, which makes a big difference. Hopefully we'll keep the heating off for a while yet, especially if we get an Indian summer.
I'd rather light a bonfire in the middle of the room then pay southern electric to run my storage heaters for another year.. I worked it out last night - to use 2 x heaters in 2 x rooms (the rest have heaters but we manage without) over last winter cost almost £200 per / qtr!
We have the same problem .We are all electric and the storage heaters cost a fortune.They only go on when it is really cold and then not in every room.. :(
Sounds like it is cold over on the north island. The sun is shining, just a few summer showers, heating might go on around about guy fawkes night.
Mind you I might be mistaken about the sunshine. It could be the fires of hell making an early appearance ;)
Only a spit north of you, ACE, but sunny/cloudy, warm and (as always) windy here.
Still filling my water butts with the hose in the Sussex dustbowl!
Cardigan/fleece on top of tee shirt end of October - (if I have to!) - and heating on early/mid November - never before.
Glad the fires of hell are only affecting the south island. xxx
I keep a small window open even in winter in the front room, as when the gas fire goes on I tend to get bunged up and keel over.
However, even in a heatwave (pah! when?!) I can't have windows open overnight - the downside of living in a ground floor flat in Central London I s'pose. I keep a mist-sprayer by the bed and if the heat gets too much at night I have a quick scoosh to cool down. Works a treat.
Some form of heating has been going on in my house for weeks now. This hasn't been summer this year, def. late autumn. Guess who is getting the rain on Fri. when everyone else is having it fine, yes USSSSS. I am going to emigrate.
:'(
Really Carol? We've been fine temperature wise. Mind you my roof was redone this year so maybe that is helping.
Heating? :o
We are still putting the fans on at night to cool the house down ;D
It gets so hot in this house and we have to open all of the windows as soon as we get home from work in the evening and then the fan goes on about 7pm for an hour or two.
I too can't sleep without the bedroom window open all year round and the only time I have to close it is when hubby complains during gale force winds which swoosh the blinds everywhere and makes a right old racket in the process :D
We always shut the heating off in April and dont even have to think about turning it on again until October.
I'm with Carol here.....brrrrr some days and the heating's been on all the time then. Old damp houses with high ceilings....the pits >:( Reckon I've got to try levitation, it's GOT to be warmer up there? And when all my books don't have jackets & my leather furniture's got a damp bloom on it....
It would be lovely to have a firm 'April to October no heating' rule, but here in my Real World it just isn't going to happen.
My house is not old, built 1990 and well insulated and its a bungalow. Where I sit at nights is North facing and never gets the sun. Some nights it has been really chilly in there so leccy fire has been put on. WE have had no summer this year. :'( :'(