Electricity who needs it?

Here I sit muffled up in two pairs of track pants, two pairs of thick socks, three long sleeved shirts and a fleecy lined hoodie.  I also have a blanket over my knees.  I am about to go and get the little old dog to add his bit of warmth to my person.  He is like a little old water bottle and I am eternally grateful for his shared heat.  Why am I thus attired I hear you say?  Well it is like this, electricity has gone up and for some reason my pension appears to have gone down.  I may be mistaken in that belief so perhaps it is because everything else has gone up exponentially. My next thought is to go and sit in the car and bask in the winter sun.  An  elderly lady I knew used to go and knit or crochet in her car.  Perhaps the neighbours thought she was a bit odd but probably they applauded her answer to the winter chill.

Although 'when I was a girl' we did not have heating and went to bed covered in layers of blankets I do not wish to lie horizontal all day. So as the Prince of Wales has been known to say,  "If you are cold put on another cardigan."  Thus I am sitting here writing my blog layered in clothes. However, I can only fit so many layers on my tubby body.  Perhaps a Fairy God Mother will appear and whisk me off to Queensland for a few weeks.  Ah Fairy God Mothers they are scant on the ground around my house.  It appears that to survive winter the Sara Lee approach is the way to go, you know layer upon layer upon layer.  Good old Sara Lee she is a champion.  Roll on spring.