clicked the oil ch on this morning. We had our covid jabs yesterday and OH always feel chilly/delicate for a couple of days… and the north wind doth blow and we shall/might have snow… brrrrrr
Has no one discovered the joys of the thermal throw ?
Costs about 0.03 € per hour. Depending on the setting, but on the lowest its more than adequate. The house is fairly warm and rather than messing about with the wood burner, which I really don’t want to use anyway and using gaz from the cistern, which is expensive, these throws are ideal. We only need them in the evening, but seriously, they are fabulous.
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How would a cat work with one of those? Ours likes to settle down and “make pizza” on me and I would guess that’s not a good thing for something with electricity running through it.
It’s very low level electricity, and the wires are deep within the throw.
what do you do during the day, when it’s perishing??
Keep moving! Wear a coat and gloves, and hat, and thick socks, and thermal underwear, and a scarf. (Think that’s about it.)
Beautiful. 
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Well, even though it’s been cold it’s been sunny, our lounge is a warm 19 degrees, and the sun floods in. I guess if it were really cold we would turn on the heating We do also have small electric thermostatic heaters, which are programmed to come on if it drops below 19 during the day, but I think they only came on once or twice for about 10 minutes each time. Our walls are very thick and we have good windows, so once warmed up it doesn’t take a lot of heating.
I am at two with this weather. Apart from dressing as if it’s Nov during the day I have to put the electric bed blanket on at least to #4, bedtimes
A fair of some sort is back in town. They come every ‘Rogation’, …
They half-inch several hundred parking places in squares and streets for a fortnight for what my god-daughter refers to as ‘piffle’.
And lo! Every time this fair comes by, the weather turns 'orrible. Here we are, on a Saturday evening in mid-May It’s cold. It’s wet … It’s clear from the lack of noise that nobody has come to whack the rat or whatever. It’s absolutely silent. The purveyors of piffle are having a bad time, as usual.
Meanwhile, in the best place on the planet
I’m doing that already. Just wondered if the electric throw was able to be worn when one was “moving”… 
our daytime outside temps have crashed from a max high of 25c to a max high of 7c. brrrrr and the wind swirls its icy fingers into every nook and cranny whenever the front door is opened. I’ve even blocked the keyhole on the back door
We’ve used the mobile leccy radiator a couple of evenings in the lounge as OH has been unable to cut wood for the fire.
I finally snapped and flicked the switch for the boiler… phew … only got the thermostat on low but it makes such a difference .
Memo to self: ensure that enough wood is cut, even if summer “seems” to have arrived…
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Shorts and teeshirts order of the day as normal down here even with the tramontine yesterday. Already warming up when I watered my new plants earlier.
It’s a beautiful sunny morning here in Angleterre sud, but probably about 6 or 7 degrees out there. 
I don’t use the electric CH much. I spend so much of my time in my computer chair that a radiant heater is all I need, and is much appreciated by my cat who wraps himself around it.
It has turned colder but if it becomes uncomfortable, I shall switch on the rads in what I call my upstairs studio, where I spend most of my time.
I watch TV on my computer screen as well and during the evening it seems to get warmer upstairs anyway.
Charente Maritime.
The temperature dropped to around freezing a week ago, from an earlier low of 10c, here in the Haut Jura. It snowed briefly first think yesterday morning, then washed away by freezing rain. So the wood burner has been on all day for a week.
Just noticed that my vine in the garden has frost damage to the new shoots and leaves. In May!
Temperatures have yoyoed this year again as they have for the last 3 or 4 and it’s done my plants no good at all, I have lots of casualties which simply cannot cope with it as a regular thing, my citrus trees and my oleanders are dead. They can cope with it one year but not several.
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Are you sure? I have a lemon tree which is now sending shoots up from the base and I have oleanders all over the place that still look dreadful - crisp grey leaves - but between the dead leaves I can see baby new green. I’m waiting until this cold snap is over and I’ll then prune off the dead stuff.
Fingers crossed.
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Beware it isn’t shoots from the rootstock, this happened to my lovely Sicilian lemon a couple of years ago, it looked pretty dead and then up came lovely vigorous new shoots alas not the Sicilian lemon but whatever it was grafted onto, full of horrendous spikes.
Mine was a present from someone else and already came with the spikes!
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