so e.g. was Preuilly really 8 degrees different from here just a while ago?
Today, my kitchen with no heating is colder than the great outdoors!!!!!!! WHY?
Is it that the stone house phenomenon?...
or that three of the doors link to rooms colder than my salon.. and is therefore reason to have two radiators in that room once I start to 'do up' my kitchen...
I am keeping shutters and curtains closed on the 'barn part of the property' rooms so it is only electric light during the day. Hat, scarves, thermal underwear have become indoor fashion in the last week but not yet seven upper layers, nor yet the coat.
I am grateful for oak logs...even if I do have to carry them in and ecoem dspondent that the will need stacking again.
I am grateul for my wonderful bed which with four hot water bottles is cosy!
I am keeping buoyant... going for a walk now...to get the grey light!!!!!!!
Addendum:
Have been out for five hours and although the kitchen is still cold the Big Room is 21C (rising to 24C two hours later) and woodburner has been slumbering on three medium sized split logs so 'tis good! Winter fuel essential as is inner fuel. Within the hour of being invited for a walk with three kiddies and three other adults, I'd made:
1. mushroom soup with fish stock... a bit acidic so I melted Valençay cheese in it... nice...
2. mincemeat tart with shop bought sweet shortcrust pastry, jar of ancient supermarket mincemeat, sliced eating apples below strips of pastry to make lattice work... cobbled together like my granny's tarts.... Here it was:
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| One slice each was more than enough! Very sweet! |
Depends where the weather station sending your readings actually is. We find the best correlation for Preuilly's weather is Poitiers, not Tours, for instance. Also depends on how often the weather station signal is read by the widget.
ReplyDeleteWhat about an electric blanket? I love mine and it is cosy and warm to get into if one has been out for the evening and the fire isn't fully stoked up.
ReplyDeleteTo continue from Gaynor's idea...
ReplyDeleteWhy not do the Scottish Crofters' thing and move into the Big Room for Winter...
live and sleep in the one warm room...
you could have a nice bed in there that becomes a couch in the warmer months...
it saves on Fuel...
and Light...
and it isn't compulsory to keep the livestock in there with you...
that was the "Black Houses"... not the Crofts.
Sorry BigFeet!
And the temperature that you are experiencing needn't be the same as any remote widget...
our weatherstation always reads around five degrees warmer or colder than the widget temperature is giving out...
colder in Winter because we are at the bottom of a valley...
warmer in Summer because of the aspect of the weatherstation.