Heating on?

[Cudzoziemiec]

We have your rain and we'd quite like you to take it back again.

[Polar Bear]

Speak for yourself.

I am very much liking these cooler temperatures and cloudy skies thanks.  👍

[quixoticgeek]

We have your rain and we'd quite like you to take it back again.

It's ok, June's rain was delivered in July... Along with July's rain, and a lot of May's...

It's rained every day of August too...

J

[fruitcake]

Greece phoned... it wants its rain back. It sounded very annoyed.

[quixoticgeek]

Greece phoned... it wants its rain back. It sounded very annoyed.

I think Slovenia got it...

J

[Kim]

I note the heating's come on a bit for barakta while I've been away camping at a comfortable temperature.  Some of that will be down to the traditional BRITISH thing of having completely different weather a hundred miles away, but I reckon the inherent coldness of the downstairs of Victorian terraced houses is also to blame.

[andyoxon]

20C inside here - it's like a dry run (albeit hosing with rain outside) for winter with some heating on.  Still, mini heatwave* Thurs/Fri...

*may contain traces of overstatement.

[andrewc]

23C in my little flat with the hifi on.....   I'm currently shirtless & perfectly comfortable.   It was noticeably warm in the sunshine when I was outside earlier.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Leaves me wondering if the hifi is for music or "music".

[andrewc]

8 x EL34's keep the place toasty......

[Kim]

*googles*

That's 75W just to run the pilot lights.  To say nothing of power supply efficiency (which I'm betting will be fairly poor, as befits a low-noise linear design), or actually playing music...

Anyway, I've just been outside, where it's colder than indoors, but ludicrously humid.  So I'm sweaty and shivering.  Stupid BRITISH summer.

[Mrs Pingu]

17.7C and 65% humidity according to the cheap tat meter in our (north facing) lounge.
I'm sitting under 2 fleece blankets but no cats (bah) and my dose is cold.

[andyoxon]

Matt cartoon...

https://twitter.com/MattCartoonist/status/1688957139820195869/photo/1

[slugbait]

It's barely been over 20 here all through July and (so far) August.

July has been very cold. August so far not doing so great either.

June was lovely. My flat was a nice 29° most of the time. Tho the 40 days without rain ewsjt ideal

J

I hate to disappoint, but July (in the Netherlands where both of us live) was slightly below the average for 1991-2020. It would have been a (very) warm month in any earlier decade. People forget just how bad Northern European summers used to be. I'm enjoying normal summer temperatures for as long at is lasts.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Heating has started coming on.

Past 4 nights I've lit the living room stove. That meant we didn't need to heat the rest of the house.

4C overnight on Sat night.

[FifeingEejit]

Felt the need to put the fire on three days ago, living room was cold, bedroom where the thermostat lives for the summer was warm.
Heating started coming on a couple of days ago,
I moved the thermostat to it's winter position in the living room yesterday (Coldest corner of the house)
Attic hatch pole relocated from resting on the pipes this morning.


Someone needs to drop the journos paid by big oil to pump out anti-change messages on Islay where it pisses with rain most of the year and heat pumps are becoming ubiquitous because LPG...

[Flite]

We were expecting visitors next w/e, so I suggested to husband that we should start up the unreliable central heating to check it was working OK before then.
Phone call this morning to cancel visit due to broken shoulder.
That's ruined my cunning plan to get the heating on for my benefit as well.

[rafletcher]

I've had cool feet that last couple of nights, so time for a duvet change soon. The heating will come on as and when the 'stat demands which given we've lows in single figures forecast for thursday and friday nights I expect to be soon.

[andyoxon]

Here heating 'on', but stat on 14C.  It'll be a while before the stat goes up - estimate 5-6 wks.   

[Basil]

Here heating 'on', but stat on 14C.  It'll be a while before the stat goes up - estimate 5-6 wks.   

Same, but 15°.

[robgul]

Heating !?!?  - have the clocks changed earlier this year 

[FifeingEejit]

Heating !?!?  - have the clocks changed earlier this year 

A support ticket was raised on Monday and estates brought the switch to GMT based heating forward to lunchtime that same day.

[robgul]

Heating !?!?  - have the clocks changed earlier this year 

A support ticket was raised on Monday and estates brought the switch to GMT based heating forward to lunchtime that same day.

   - no wonder it was dark so early last night.

Joking apart, I've just go the raceblades out to fit to one of the machines I'll be riding in the winter - depressing

[rafletcher]

Heating !?!?  - have the clocks changed earlier this year 

No, but my wife is 79 and as thin as a rake, so 17.5C it is.

[rogerzilla]

I lit the stove for two reasons.

(a) Dumpy Cat likes it and I've bern out all day
(b) More significantly, this apocalyptic rain has blocked my NEW guttering and water is pouring down the wall.  Not the installers' fault - they couldn't use leaf/moss guards on the back because the neighbour's gutter runs into mine, and that would mean moss under the leaf guard where it can't be cleaned out.  So there is just a balloon in the top of the downpipe (a blocked downpipe would be very bad) and that's clogged.  I need to go up a ladder.