Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Confusion of the Winter Solstice!

Whenever the winter solstice comes around I always get confused. Things are supposed to start cheering up now, aren't they?

But the reality is that although the days start getting longer from now on, and the nights shorter, it does not mean that the weather gets warmer yet! Temperature-wise, we are only entering the depths of the cold winter months. Where we are in the north of the country, I have only just moved the heater from the barn to the office, and we have only been using it on a daily basis for about a week. We have weeks to go of chewing up Eskom resources before we can pack it away again.

We normally sleep under our All Seasons down duvets for at least 4 months of the year, and I only clipped the Summer and Autumn ones together at the beginning of June. That means, 4 months still to go, that I will only unclip the Summer ones at the end of September!

On that note, I realize what a fantastic buy these All Seasons duvets have been for us. I brush the children's teeth while they are in the bath, and then they both literally run (without slippers, because why fight over 30 metres, even if it is 30 metres of cold red oxide floors?), through the playroom, the kitchen, the lounge and then leap into their beds. No matter how cold the icy winds blow up against that side of the house from the south, I know that they will be tucked up and warm all through the night.

And that is how we get through winter: no underfloor heating, one heater for the office, one old wood fire stove in the kitchen that warms the living areas of the house, and most importantly, we all have All Season's down duvets.

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