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Old 01-10-2022, 10:10   #1371
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Re: The energy crisis

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Originally Posted by Tinky View Post
I remember before central heating became the norm, we had ice on the inside of the windows in the winter, and we relied on parafin stoves to keep the house warm. We've got too soft.
I remember that as a kid, only heating apart from the paraffin stove was an open coal fire in the front room but I don't remember the house being cold.

We used our hands to melt holes in the ice on the bedroom window to see if it had snowed overnight.
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