We are always trying to solve your conundrums here at Top 5, and this time around it’s how to stay warm when winter arrives and it’s colder than a bucket of ice tipped on your back when you’re not looking.
It is much colder this winter, isn’t it?
Top 5 tries to keep his environmental footprint as small as possible and one of things we do as part of that is avoid using hot water – which of course is made hot by the generation of electricity.
But it’s getting tough to wash hands and face with cold water at 6 in the morning. The water out of the tap is so cold it would wake up the dead.
Just how do you stay warm when the air is bone chilling cold?
[social_quote duplicate=”no” align=”default”]Well, we put a beanie on our head, ugh boots on our feet and lots of thermal wear all round and had a long think about this conundrum.[/social_quote]
The result is our Top 5 ways to stay relatively warm in the next three months or so:
1. Find an excuse to frequently visit friends who have really warm houses: Our neighbours for instance seem to have their log fire going 24 hours a day, whereas our budget only allows for every two days. It’s either that or chopping down trees without telling the council and we wouldn’t do such a naughty thing.
2. Cancel the trip to the snow: Well, what’s doing here, folks? Isn’t it cold enough for you in Camden or Cartwright so you head off to those snowy hillocks behind Canberra? You must be kidding.
3. Ask the boss for a computer screen that doubles as a heater. He says they don’t make them yet? Get the boss to urgently contact the Apple engineers, the ones who came up with the iphone and tell them to get cracking. And make sure the new PC/heater glows like a log fire.
4. Eat foods that warm the cockels of your heart, whatever the heck that is. So, for the next three months it’s just cheese and ham toasted sandwiches, soups, yum, things cooked in an oven, roast meats, potatoes, pumpkin – then leave the oven door open heat up the rest of the kitchen; you gotta look after the chef.
5. If you’re going to have a drink anyway: put away the cold stuff, beer and white wine, and just consume warming stuff like ports and liqueur muscats, sherries, single malt scotch straight, cognac or brandy as we call it, especially warmed up a bit in a big tumbler. Cheers.
