What are you all up to

Hardier than us, too KjellNN.  I'm afraid if I'm cold, the heating goes on!!  I don't suppose the £10 bonus I got yesterday will go far towards paying for it, so I think I'll put it towards the postage for the Christmas cards!

David

A Christmas edition of Allo, Allo, David?😉

Sorry about all the typos in my post above.  I've corrected them, but mickysf copied the original version.. 🤣🤣

David

I was impressed though with you wishing K thanks in Danish. I think Norwegian has an extra k, mind!😉

Our sniffles seem to have disappeared without turning into a full blown cold thankfully. Not something we get often either. I am finding it too warm at night as our CH is kicking in occasionally. Might be this that’s giving me the sniffles and bit of a thick head.

Present wrapping here. OH’s birthday this week. 

Happy Birthday to Mr TDA this week. I am pleased to hear your sniffles have gone. We have our heating set to around 14 overnight so it very rarely comes on. I hate a warm bedroom. We had a lovely lunch out with friends yesterday. The Bull Hotel in town has a special offer for Christmas of a 3 course lunch for £20. It was a very good meal with great service. It brought back some memories as that was where OH and I had our wedding reception! Bitterly cold here again this morning with a frost. I hope the nellies can get away on their planned trip soon.

Happy Birthday this week TDA.   I have had the sniffles for a few days too, feels a bit like a sort of weird hay fever allergy more than a cold but hoping it will go the same way as yours.  I blamed it on a little Christmas tree sent by son and family for us to decorate as the sneezing started about the same time!

Very cold and frosty this morning but sunny and dry so I’m hoping we can get out for a while before it starts the dull and rainy stuff again.  We also desperately need to tidy the garden.   The indoor jobs can wait for tomorrow’s forecast wet day.  

Glad to hear you are getting out and about again Millie and that you are feeling better.

We seem affected by CH, I suppose it dries the air out to much for us, even though we always have a window cracked for fresh air. I hate a warm bedroom, feel stifled, but OH feels the cold a lot more now. (He’s got less padding than me🤣) On the plus side, my little experiment with putting a curtain across our winter room/ kitchen area, the one with the stove, is working a treat. Our CH isn’t coming on at all now in evening until 9pm, unless it drops below 16c. We are really cosy with just stove.  I simple open the curtain, stove heat flows through house, topped up in bedrooms in use by CL until it goes back down to 16c overnight. High glee watching our Smart meter, we average 2p per hour for gas until 9-10.30pm. Hound has a bed at side of stove, then another under a radiator, so he is happy.

Cold night again last night - 5c, still - 2c when we got up but the frost on the cars has gone now.

The back garden which is north facing, is still covered in frost. Went out and cleared the frozen water from the birds bath. No sooner got back in the house and the black birds were in there having a splash around.

Need to get more bird food I think I'm the only one feeding them. The garden this morning was full of birds, black birds, blue tits, chaffinch, sparrows and of course a Robin. 🙂

I make no apologies for heating my house, I hate being cold and refuse to wrap up like a snowman to sit indoors. The heating comes on at 08.00 and goes off at 21.30 during the colder months, it's set at 19c during the day and 21c in the evenings. The bedroom is 18c but no heating overnight anywhere in the house. We are cavity wall insulated, loft insulated and floored. The inner walls are all solid brick and the floors are concrete, so not warm on the feet. The house holds its heat quite well overnight.

I read a report this morning that gas heating costs around £1.65 per hour and electric £2.78 which surprised me. We are on LPG, we pay 57p a litre we get through roughly 1% of our tank a day (in this weather) that's roughly 13ltrs of LPG over 13.5 hrs £7.41 +11p a day standing charge. I always thought that LPG was much more expensive than natural gas. Yet given the figures quoted in the report it would seem not, it would cost £22.27 if we were on natural gas 😲

OH out taking BIL to the hospital for his oncology appointment, he usually takes himself but not this time. The sepsis has really taken a toll on his health, far more than the cancer has. He can only manage to walk around the house using a stick. There is no way he could get from the car park to the hospital, OH is taking him and has arranged a wheelchair to get him about, it's a big hospital. 

Off to knit some more hats while I've got peace and quiet. Have a good day all. 

Happy birthday to TDA's OH, and good wishes for a speedy recovery to those with colds and sniffles... hope you are rid of it in time for Christmas.

For us is Christmas tree day... it usually goes up on 6th December... St Nicholas Day... Just about to start!!! 😀

David