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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
(yes in August) can't wait to get into that warm cosy bed.
Has anybody else put their EB on??
jem
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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!
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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).
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).
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