I’ve just sent in my electricity reading on line. Trelawnyd has no piped gas, so heating is generally oil fired or from gas cylinders. As you all know my central heating and thermal store is fuelled by kiln dried logs and prices for these haven’t risen drastically as yet.
The Community Association has a fuel expert on its committee in the shape of Gwawr . I have a feeling her ear is going to be bent double in the months to come.
When did central heating become standard ? I suspect it was the early 1970s after the fuel strikes and power cuts ? Am I right?
Only last week I had a conversation with a young nurse about the downsides of no central heating. She couldn’t quite get her head around how freezing it was behind the couch once the front had been heated by the coal fire
Hot water bottles and eiderdowns so heavy you almost struggled to breathe underneath them were the norm, and thickly cut white bread with strawberry jam was a treat after it was toasted in the fire with a long fork.
I wore a vest then
With baggy bottoms
And bathrooms were small then too, and filled with great clouds of immersion heated water and steam , overseen with a cosmic zeal by a father who paid the bills.
Bwthyn y llan has 18 inch walls of limestone which finally keep the heat in once the place is eventually heated up ( which takes an age) and the new windows I had put in are double glazed and draught proof . My only extravagance being my new electric shower…blissful and glorious on a cold winters morning
I’m ready for winter
Ps….last night just before bed the “unthinkable “ happened
Dorothy cuddled up to Roger in front of the fire
Thank fuck for that
The silent war is over
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