by vannin » Wed Sep 19, 2018 6:53 pm
[quote="Andere Richtingen"]Maybe you should point out to Noddy that people who live in cold houses tend to die younger. Sadly, that's a fact.
I often wonder how we weathered our childhood and are still soldiering on. That was REAL cold, I clearly remember 1947 when I started school(the Shinwell winter) and we just got on with it. Bedrooms were cold, even icy because 'ordinary' people didn't have central heating. Most of my age group, when we compare notes, remember the layer of beautiful ice that formed INside the bedroom windows. Beautiful because it formed patterns. There was not the scale of bronchitis then, COPD neither, because we were hardened to the climate and conditions.
T.B. sufferers, like my father, seemed to be encouraged into cold surroundings. The sanatoriums, as treatment, pushed the beds containing patients, out on the balconies in all weathers. I was taken to visit, as a young child, and saw it. They did have blankets of course.
Then, by the age of eight, I was shunted off to boarding school, my first experience of radiators, which we loved, of course. It was a joy to sit on the flat tops of them till prefects came along saying 'If you sit there you'll get piles'! The c.h. was the one advantage I can balance against the sheer misery of spending ten years at these places.
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