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HWB - if I take a deep breath I can still remember that smell, urgh.
HWB - I remember burning my fingers whilst filling them.
HWB are are the banned list.
Love my Wheat bag to take to bed, soft, malleable and ever so slightly shareable.

Oh Daisy!

Took my hot-water bottle away for the weekend recently - but forgot to take the stopper . . .

Hildajeni yes I do remember frost patterns. All to well.

Muckabokkle - don't ask - well, yes it was how I said it as a 2 year old

Totally off thread but when DS2 was born at home, on the mid wife's list of essentials was a hot water bottle to warm the crib for the newborn. As he was born in June it was impossible to find one in the shops. Luckily his godmother designate had a spare and lent it. Could hardly fold our electric blanket into the crib

DH gets horrendous chilblains ever since they increased his statins.

Hottie for us UNTIL WE LOST THEM in the last move. So I hot footed it (get it) down town and the only ones I could find had Charlie and Lola knitted covers on. so now of course its Charlie and Lola. DH likes taking Lola to bed when he has one of him poor tummies (usually after eating out of date Activia yogurts -) he can be such a wally. And then I found the others one blue one mauve with lovely fluffy covers.

Just laughed out loud thinking about jamside's dad with a wet nappy on each ear

I don't think my dad would have appreciated that cure for chilblains Nankate

And didn't they slip out of the end of the bed, and land with a loud thump in the middle of the night!

Remember the old stoneware hot water bottles? My granny used to call them pigs (piggies), while the rubber ones were hot water bags (baggies).

Just could not go to bed without my hottie, been so since a child, so much so that we married in January and my Mum packed my hottie in the car for our honeymoon !

I have Charlie and Cilla cooling pads. The mini under my pillow is the female and I put my leg over the male by at my side when I get the 'hots' for him during the night.
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I couldn't survive the winter without Hettie the Hottie. She's marvellous, and lives inside a furry cover which keeps her hot all night.

I have a Hottie. It's one of those gel filled ones that you heat in the microwave.

We used to have a hot water bottle each when I was a child. Like nina the only heating in our house was a coal fire in the living room and a Rayburn in the kitchen which was fuelled by coke.

Remember the interesting intricate patterns made by frost on the inside of the bedroom window when you woke up on a winter morning?

Hot water bottle, what's one of those ??

I haven't used one since I was a child, when the only heating in the house was a coal fire in the living room.

Here is a proven cure for chilblains - my mother used to wrap my wet nappies round my Aunt's feet. It's the uric acid in the wee that does it.

DH has a sledge hammer called The Mekon.

You can take the boy out of The Eagle..........

odd names for everyday objects
We have Sir Stanley (Stanley knife) and DH's late father had a huge hammer called Fagin.

My dad used to get chilblains on his ears - well they were very sticky out!

I managed to get chilblains during the winter. Walking about in bare feet in a cold house in the morning and then getting into a hot shower did it. (Memo to self - wear slippers). I really miss central heating but that's the nature of a less than luxurious rental in NZ. When I buy a house in a year or so, I hope, I shall make sure that the heating system works throughout the house and not just in the main living room and that it has double glazing. I miss that too. Fortunately winter her isn't long but it can be very cold.

Hottie Bott - I have one that I microwave and, unlike the traditional hottie it stays warm all night! Just like DH, except he won't let me put my cold feet on him

I wonder what Stanley Unwin would have called his?

Hot Watery Bottlode?

I remember chilblains. Who gets those now?

I remember having a hot brick wrapped up. Warmed up in the oven next to the fire grate.