Main sources of heating?
Gas and electricity – space heater can move around and heat a space more quickly (10 minutes to heat up) and blows hot air. We prefer more localised heating.
We also use our onesies and hot water bottles to go more body-centered than space centered as the space is not well insulated.
Warming foods include porridge and soup, and we drink lots of tea.
Main heating challenges?
The house is not well insulated and no double-glazing, so the house is leaking heat – ‘it is almost like you are heating the outside’.
The lower ground floor makes it freeze as hot air travels up.
It’s always colder inside than outside.
Coldest winter memory?
Coldest winter for N was in Germany but indoor was comfortable.
Warmest memory?
Most comfortable winter has to be Zambia – you think of winter not as absolute but as coming in waves/days – winter is linked to wind and not low temperature in Zambia.