Hello Philosopherer,

> Oh dear. Ad s a child I remembeer scrapining the ice off the INSIDE of
> the bedroom windows..

Me too.

>> How warm did you heat it during the day, for it to cool down to 5 deg C
>> overnight?
>>
>> I feel very cold if the room temperature drops even to 10-15 deg rather
>> than normal 20 deg, so 5 deg must feel very cold.

> It does. IIRC thermal underwear, pajamas, and as many government surplus
> 'horse blankets' as we could pile on the bed, and indeed under us as
> well. Heatloss through the mattress was not trivial.

Yes.

> And they wonder why thermometers to day near any populated place read
> higher...

Global warming ?

>> I often think that people in the days before central heating, when fires
>> were not kept in overnight and advice was to sleep with an open bedroom
>> window, must have been made of much sterner stuff than me ;-)

> The secret is enough bedclothes.

Exactly.
I did that this year in March in the cargo hold of an old inland ship.
Temp was betrween 0 and 5 oC.
After standing up, you inmediately have to put on your clothing,
and after that start eating for breakfest asap.

Henri.

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