01.27.07
Brrr … It’s Cold Here
We are not very happy little Teddy bears. We like to be nice and warm, and it is definitely not warm here. It is very cold. This morning when we woke up it was only 13c in the bedroom. We had to summon up all our will power just to get out of bed. The bathroom was even colder, a measly 7c, I think that it gets so cold in there because the roof is slanted and there obviously wasn’t much room to put in thick insulation. We love our home, but it is very cold in the winter. I guess the lounge and kitchen being so large and open plan, and the staircase being open means a lot of the warm air flows upstairs. The sun was coming in through the loung windows though which made us feel warmer. Thankfully Richard had been up since about 5:30am and he put the heating on, so I guess we can’t complain as it would have been even colder when we got up. That is one of the very few things we miss about our home in London, the central heating. We don’t have it here and I wish we did. This house has electric wall heaters, an open fire in the lounge, and Richard and Laura bought a couple of petrol heaters too. I am glad I don’t have to pay the electricity bills, they are astronomical. It’s ironic really that electricity is so expensive here, considering how much France produces, I guess it’s because they sell so much of it to other countries. Oh well, at least we have a roof over our heads even of we do feel cold. There are so many people who are homeless, I often think of them, even more so when it is so cold. Outside the temperature is 8c, with the wind making it feel much colder, at least that’s 1 degree warmer than our bathroom, maybe Yoelson and I should bathe out there. Maybe not, the neighbours would think we are mad.