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Nov. 22nd, 2006 02:59 pmGosh. It's chilly. Really, really chilly.
Indoors.
Allow me to explain. For some quite sensible cost and environmental reasons, heating is rationed throughout all St Andrews residences. This is a good idea, because people are losers when it comes to looking after the environment, so this is a good idea to keep the buggars under control. Brilliant!
Erm, less so at the moment. I like looking after the world, and I don't tend to put the heating on. I'd rather put on more layers on, you see.
This is ridiculous, though. Currently, I've got tights on under my jeans, socks, two jumpers, a t-shirt, and I'm debating putting on the hobo gloves too because my hands are freezing to death and it's still deathly cold.
Last year, I lived in Gatty under similar conditions - old house, not much heating - but I never remember being too cold. This is different. This is arctic. You see, we work on the same heating schedule as DRA. DRA has underfloor heating, triple-glazing, and is an extremely modern building, with lots of insulations. These were built in the 70s, single-glazing, rotting window frames and heating that's erratic at best. It will, at times, randomly turn off for an hour during the heating hours. And when the heating has gone, it just leaves the house. So we freeze to death.
Hence the many, many layers. Good fun.
My skin is currently going to hell via dry skin and a spot attack (the hell, body? Simon isn't coming to visit for ages, you normally wait until the day before to pull this one!). I also need to pluck my eyebrows something terrible, but Sarah has nicked my tweezers so I am going to have to look like a hairy beast for a while. Or until tonight, when I've had my shower in the hours of heating (it's too cold to shower when we don't have heating on) and it won't hurt so much.
Right. Research!
Indoors.
Allow me to explain. For some quite sensible cost and environmental reasons, heating is rationed throughout all St Andrews residences. This is a good idea, because people are losers when it comes to looking after the environment, so this is a good idea to keep the buggars under control. Brilliant!
Erm, less so at the moment. I like looking after the world, and I don't tend to put the heating on. I'd rather put on more layers on, you see.
This is ridiculous, though. Currently, I've got tights on under my jeans, socks, two jumpers, a t-shirt, and I'm debating putting on the hobo gloves too because my hands are freezing to death and it's still deathly cold.
Last year, I lived in Gatty under similar conditions - old house, not much heating - but I never remember being too cold. This is different. This is arctic. You see, we work on the same heating schedule as DRA. DRA has underfloor heating, triple-glazing, and is an extremely modern building, with lots of insulations. These were built in the 70s, single-glazing, rotting window frames and heating that's erratic at best. It will, at times, randomly turn off for an hour during the heating hours. And when the heating has gone, it just leaves the house. So we freeze to death.
Hence the many, many layers. Good fun.
My skin is currently going to hell via dry skin and a spot attack (the hell, body? Simon isn't coming to visit for ages, you normally wait until the day before to pull this one!). I also need to pluck my eyebrows something terrible, but Sarah has nicked my tweezers so I am going to have to look like a hairy beast for a while. Or until tonight, when I've had my shower in the hours of heating (it's too cold to shower when we don't have heating on) and it won't hurt so much.
Right. Research!
