Comments on: Icicles on the window http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/ Rambles around the head of an Irish Grandad Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:57:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: English Mum http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15227 English Mum Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:20:39 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15227 We checked on the price of oil last week and it was 75c a litre. Got a delivery yesterday at 60c a litre so I suppose that's one teeny silver lining in the huge dark economic cloud. Used to stay at my grannies and her downstairs basement (where the loo was) was heated by a paraffin yoke like that. Sometimes it was so cold, your bum would stick to the seat. Ah...all our yesterdays.... We checked on the price of oil last week and it was 75c a litre. Got a delivery yesterday at 60c a litre so I suppose that’s one teeny silver lining in the huge dark economic cloud.

Used to stay at my grannies and her downstairs basement (where the loo was) was heated by a paraffin yoke like that. Sometimes it was so cold, your bum would stick to the seat. Ah…all our yesterdays….

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15229 Grandad Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:25:46 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15229 Welcome Filthy! There are very few non-moaners left though. As a matter of interest, is your name down to a lack of bathroom facilities too, or do you just have a dirty mind? ;) Welcome Filthy! There are very few non-moaners left though. As a matter of interest, is your name down to a lack of bathroom facilities too, or do you just have a dirty mind? ;)

]]> By: Filthy http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15228 Filthy Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:17:24 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15228 Hi Grandad. You just described the house I'm living in at the moment! Bought my Grannies old house a couple of years ago and still haven't installed central heating or any double glazing. It does get quite cold but you manage. No real complaints here and I grew up with central heating in my parents house! Us youngsters aren't all a bunch of moaners! Hi Grandad. You just described the house I’m living in at the moment! Bought my Grannies old house a couple of years ago and still haven’t installed central heating or any double glazing. It does get quite cold but you manage. No real complaints here and I grew up with central heating in my parents house! Us youngsters aren’t all a bunch of moaners!

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15226 Grandad Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:15:26 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15226 I had forgotten the joys of getting up! There were two tricks to it - you either smuggled your clothes in under the bedclothes and tried to get dressed there, or else there was a mad dash out of bed to get the clothes on as quickly as possible. As for the nostalgia side of it, I don't for a moment suggest we should go back to those days. I was merely contrasting what we have now that we take so much for granted, and fifty years ago where we managed to survive without life's "essentials". SHoop - You know my attitude to all this rubbish of changing clocks around!! I had forgotten the joys of getting up! There were two tricks to it – you either smuggled your clothes in under the bedclothes and tried to get dressed there, or else there was a mad dash out of bed to get the clothes on as quickly as possible.

As for the nostalgia side of it, I don’t for a moment suggest we should go back to those days. I was merely contrasting what we have now that we take so much for granted, and fifty years ago where we managed to survive without life’s “essentials”.

SHoop – You know my attitude to all this rubbish of changing clocks around!!

]]> By: miltonfriedman http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15203 miltonfriedman Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:19:31 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15203 Ahhh but....remember those big pots of bubbling stew to warm you up....and the midwadi made with hot water... Ahhh but….remember those big pots of bubbling stew to warm you up….and the midwadi made with hot water…

]]> By: Spaghetti Hoop http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15204 Spaghetti Hoop Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:44:48 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15204 Oy Grandad, you're blog clock is still on summertime. Is that in defiance? I hope so. Oy Grandad, you’re blog clock is still on summertime. Is that in defiance? I hope so.

]]> By: Ian http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15205 Ian Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:34:35 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15205 Frank McCourt just did a local refinement of miserable nostalgia. The whole tradition was parodied in the 1970s by Tony Capstick (Capstick Comes Home) and Monty Python (The Four Yorkshiremen) Frank McCourt just did a local refinement of miserable nostalgia.

The whole tradition was parodied in the 1970s by Tony Capstick (Capstick Comes Home) and Monty Python (The Four Yorkshiremen)

]]> By: Spaghetti Hoop http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15223 Spaghetti Hoop Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:23:08 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15223 "As I remember, going to bed in the cold was never as miserable as getting UP in it." Very true. Getting dressed in the mornings while still IN bed. Touching off the rapidly-freezing "hot" water bottle that you squeezed to death only hours previous always produced a happy shriek in the cold light of morning. Since when was misery a cause for nostalgia? Oh yeah, since Frank McCourt.... “As I remember, going to bed in the cold was never as miserable as getting UP in it.”

Very true. Getting dressed in the mornings while still IN bed. Touching off the rapidly-freezing “hot” water bottle that you squeezed to death only hours previous always produced a happy shriek in the cold light of morning.

Since when was misery a cause for nostalgia? Oh yeah, since Frank McCourt….

]]> By: Susan http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15206 Susan Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:40:14 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15206 Grandad, you're right about being healthier; I think the cold killed the germs that today we just keep passing around. The original 'central heating' in our house is the massive double-fireplace chimney breast that actually warms the house quite well while it's going. We grow biomass willow to keep it going. As I remember, going to bed in the cold was never as miserable as getting UP in it. My tears are freezing on my cheeks, just thinking about it. Grandad, you’re right about being healthier; I think the cold killed the germs that today we just keep passing around.

The original ‘central heating’ in our house is the massive double-fireplace chimney breast that actually warms the house quite well while it’s going. We grow biomass willow to keep it going.

As I remember, going to bed in the cold was never as miserable as getting UP in it. My tears are freezing on my cheeks, just thinking about it.

]]> By: tt http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/comment-page-1/#comment-15222 tt Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:56:45 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/10/30/icicles-on-the-window/#comment-15222 Is it runing or running ? Is it runing or running ?

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