Home Comforts

[Deleted member 1258]

Said @dave r ,


I can remember putting on school uniform under the bedcovers because it was so cold (ice inside the bedroom windows). The only heating was a 2 bar electric fire in the living room and a probably very dangerous, portable paraffin stove (usually placed in the kitchen). I didn't like it then, not at all! But I coped. Now, being of a certain age, I can't cope at all unless the temperature is around 70F (21C) or above! Pampered, or what...

Yes I remember ice on the inside of the bedroom window, and lino on the floor, except for Christmas my parents would only have a coal fire in the back room the rest of the house would be unheated, first thing in the morning, before they lit the fire, there would be a paraffin heater on in the back room and the oven would be on in the kitchen with the door open.

 

[raleighnut]

We've got a woodburner instead of a gas fire, bliss

one of these.

 

[jayonabike]

Thank God for progress. Heating in every room programmed to come on when you want it to. A wireless thermostat that can adjust the temperature to within half a degree. Instant hot water, as much as you want.
55" 4K smart T.V, movies on tap. Everything linked to the internet and decent coffee.

 

[swee'pea99]

Thank God for progress.

I'll give you progress....my Dad grew up in a small town outside Wellington NZ during the war. The dentist's drill was driven by pedal-power, and there were no anaesthetics....

 

[SpokeyDokey]

No way would we ever live in a house without an open fire (or at the very least a wood/multi-fuel burner).

Living in the sticks we don't have gas so have oil fired central heating which is a big semi-industrial beast down in the garage. That's our background heating sorted.

The open fire (coal & logs) which we run every night (apart from a few weeks in summer) has a chute underneath it and all the ash goes down to a big chamber and I empty it maybe twice a year. Bliss!

The whole village has wood/coal burning fires/stoves and looks very cosy when they all fire up at this time of the year.

No open fire = a miserable, soul-less house for us.

 

[Fnaar]

We always get the (smokeless) coal fire going round this time of year. Makes everything reet cosy

 

[Oldbloke]

No central heating here, big old former mill heated by 2 woodburners.

By spring I'm sick to death of stacking/moving logs!

 

[SD1]

Thank God for progress. Heating in every room programmed to come on when you want it to. A wireless thermostat that can adjust the temperature to within half a degree. Instant hot water, as much as you want.
55" 4K smart T.V, movies on tap. Everything linked to the internet and decent coffee.

Do you have to get up to go to the toilet?!!

 

[swee'pea99]

No way would we ever live in a house without an open fire (or at the very least a wood/multi-fuel burner).

Living in the sticks we don't have gas so have oil fired central heating which is a big semi-industrial beast down in the garage. That's our background heating sorted.

The open fire (coal & logs) which we run every night (apart from a few weeks in summer) has a chute underneath it and all the ash goes down to a big chamber and I empty it maybe twice a year. Bliss!

The whole village has wood/coal burning fires/stoves and looks very cosy when they all fire up at this time of the year.

No open fire = a miserable, soul-less house for us.

I totally agree. My in-laws used to live in a big rambling 250 year old house with a massive fireplace, in which sat a sad 'fire effect' electric 2-bar jobbie from the '70s. They insisted that they'd grown up with open fires, and they were 'nasty and dirty, and a lot of effort'. What a waste.

 

[accountantpete]

Bring back outside loo's with newspaper cuttings - wonderful, especially in the depth of Winter.

 

[Durian]

Bring back outside loo's with newspaper cuttings - wonderful, especially in the depth of Winter.

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It just needs a copy of The Guardian hanging in there so you can wipe before leaving.

 

[gbb]

Bring back outside loo's with newspaper cuttings - wonderful, especially in the depth of Winter.

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Luxury

Aye...

 

[awomaninsane]

Said @dave r ,


I can remember putting on school uniform under the bedcovers because it was so cold (ice inside the bedroom windows). The only heating was a 2 bar electric fire in the living room and a probably very dangerous, portable paraffin stove (usually placed in the kitchen). I didn't like it then, not at all! But I coped. Now, being of a certain age, I can't cope at all unless the temperature is around 70F (21C) or above! Pampered, or what...

OMG! All of this! I remember our windows having ice on the inside and the portable fire in the kitchen. I was spoiled in one way I suppose in that I had an electric blanket on my bed. By the time I'd run from the warm sitting room up the stairs to the loo and then into bed I would be stone cold but boy, was my bed warm as toast!

 

[Mrs M]

Remember chestnuts on our Parkray Fire and warming ourselves up in front of it when we'd been out playing in the snow.
Nice and cosy feel to it.

 

[Piemaster]

Pantries/larders are apparently making a comeback. We now have lovely warm homes on demand, so warm that we have to keep what seems to be ever lengthening quantities of food in the fridge they are getting bigger too. The big american style ones seem to be approaching the size of larders..