I'm so cold that I'm seriously considering putting on the central heating.  I've just put the supplementary electric heater on in this room, feeling terribly guilty at doing so, but my knees are so stiff and painful that I'm finding myself stumbling around instead of walking.  My fingers are very stiff too, but at least they're not yet as grossly ( Read more... )

OMG, it's soooo cold here and getting colder and colder.

We now have the central heating on 24 hours a day, one "bar" of a calor gas heater in the downstairs hall and a paraffin heater going full blast in the upstairs corridor, plus an oil filled heater in this room (on its lowest setting) which is supposed to be for emergencies, and one upstairs in ( Read more... )

It's really cold here again ( Read more... )

It was f-f-f-f-f-f-freezing in my room when I woke up and I spent far too long in bed, watching Saturday Kitchen because it was warm in there.

I'm a bit fed up with myself because I can't yet hold my fiddle up properly for longer than 10 minutes, but that is, of course, because I haven't played it for so long.  I can still play in tune, mostly, but ( Read more... )

The lovely double-blossomed pink cherry tree over the road is about to burst into pale pink blossom;  at present it has dark pink buds.  When it finally comes out and starts shedding its blossom, the whole street will look as though there's been a wedding, with pink confetti everywhere. I would take a "before" photograph to put here in my LJ, but ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here in my winter uniform of trousers and T-shirt, warm cardigan and thick woolly socks, plus a pair of old black leg-warmers I've had since the 70s draped fetchingly around my ankles.  And still my feet are cold.

So are my hands, my nose and the tips of my ears.

Bearing in mind the current fuel prices, I rather expected to have to sit ( Read more... )

After 3 days of shivering at 59F, we've reluctantly turned the heating back on as the house is beginning to smell damp and it feels colder than 59F really is.  Even Charles is cold and the cats keep wanting cuddles.

I'm absolutely freezing here and have been all day, in spite of the late sunshine this afternoon.

I've been told off in another place for being a miserable old bugger, so now I really feel like one.  Originally I was feeling fairly cheerful but a bit miffed because the weather is so cold up here, but now I'm feeling really pissed off.

What a comfort ( Read more... )

Yesterday John drove me to Halifax for what turned out to be a long and exhausting meeting. I was woken by the cats at 5.30 am and as I was going to get up at 6.00, I stayed up. We finally got home at 7.30 pm, the journey home having been enlivened by Lucy boiling over. Fortunately, since it happened once before, last year, I always carry spare ( Read more... )