Interesting article on the BBC site about something which has been around for thousands of years but only recently has become the norm - central heating.
Now that autumn and winter are drawing in we tend to think of central heating as a perfunctory way of keeping warm, but this article highlights how the widespread availability of central heating has changed the way that families interact with one another.
We didn't have CH at home until I was about 10, so I can just about remember waking up on cold mornings and seeing my breath on the bedroom window.
Unlike many seem to do these days I would put an extra layer of clothes on first before I would switch the heating on. Maybe I'm becoming an old skinflint.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8283796.stm
Now that autumn and winter are drawing in we tend to think of central heating as a perfunctory way of keeping warm, but this article highlights how the widespread availability of central heating has changed the way that families interact with one another.
We didn't have CH at home until I was about 10, so I can just about remember waking up on cold mornings and seeing my breath on the bedroom window.
Unlike many seem to do these days I would put an extra layer of clothes on first before I would switch the heating on. Maybe I'm becoming an old skinflint.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8283796.stm
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