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Entries relating to heating.
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Compressing catastrophic events into manageable anecdotes through understatement.
Read full entry →The stubborn, medically dangerous protest against energy companies, executed by sitting on the sofa looking like an Arctic explorer.
Read full entry →The covert, incremental adjustment of household climate controls to avoid initiating a massive argument about heating bills.
Read full entry →A rising sense of financial and thermal dread triggered by an unfamiliar mechanical noise in the airing cupboard.
Read full entry →An annual, self-imposed battle of will against rising energy bills, always lost within the first week of autumn.
Read full entry →An infuriating power play where a cat insists on bridging the indoor and outdoor worlds to let all the heating out of the house.
Read full entry →The futile application of visual pressure to a household appliance out of desperate caffeine withdrawal.
Read full entry →The grim anticipation of a freezing house and a decimated bank account upon discovering a fault in the central heating mid-January.
Read full entry →The stubborn choice to wrap yourself in a duvet on the sofa and complain about the temperature rather than admit defeat to the energy company.
Read full entry →A bitter, passive-aggressive domestic conflict involving two people with vastly different core temperatures refusing to compromise.
Read full entry →A bitter domestic war of attrition resulting in one person sweating and the other wearing a heavy coat indoors.
Read full entry →The ugly, moisture-creating method of drying laundry that leaves your jeans feeling like cardboard.
Read full entry →A test of endurance where household members wear coats indoors rather than admit defeat to British Gas.
Read full entry →A depressing modern hobby involving watching the digital display turn red and calculating if you can afford to have the heating on.
Read full entry →A malicious household violation where the burden of cardboard disposal is forcefully passed to the next person.
Read full entry →A covert domestic battle where partners incrementally turn the dial up and down without speaking.
Read full entry →An ominous, whistling intake of oxygen used by a repair person to indicate that an issue will be vastly expensive.
Read full entry →The mental surrender of an item of clothing that falls into a crevice too dusty or narrow to reach.
Read full entry →The financially irresponsible act of adjusting the heating rather than dressing appropriately.
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