We have only been back in the UK 3 years, but this year was a lot worse for me than any I can remember (17 years total). We had the floods from 2 years ago, but that didn't really hit this area. But, at least even then there were dry stretches....I don't know why I still remember but we went 15 days with no rain here in February that year. It just seems we can't get more than 2 days without rain this Winter. I gave up walking down the river....mud just got too deep. Golf course fairly constantly closed. But after freezing a lot of my younger days in cold houses....I turn the heat up now. We keep the house at around 20C. If I get to feeling chilled I bump it up another .5C or so.....I wear a long sleeve t-shirt and a thick fleece as well. I don't mind cold outside (my usual 5 mile walk this morning)....I even tried to get transferred to Iceland a couple of times while I was working....but inside, I want to be comfortable. Nothing worse to me than sitting around trying to stay warm.
We got hold of my wife's old neighbor who is a plumber/heating guy. Our boiler just wasn't doing a good enough job. We could take showers, but baths just wouldn't get hot enough. I just told him to replace it with something that WILL heat the damn water and spit it out fast enough to fill the bath in less than a year. Waiting for him to install it. It's either that or I might just buy the hot tub I keep putting off.
