Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Great Plum wrote:I rarely got cold in my housey (it was the bands flicking in my face that was the most annoying...)

Too right! Especially when they were fresh on from the laundry. I've got a couple of friends who've become church ministers and they complained bitterly about their dog collars.. until I showed them a pic of a housey and bands.

Do people still loop their scarves through the housey coat pocket holes or through the arm of the girl's jacket? Tis a habit I haven't quite got out of - but at least it makes coat retrieval swift at the end of parties when rushing for the last train home.

As a grown up, and after that time with a housey, I still can't bring myself to buy a long winter coat - no matter how cold I get. They just feel so wrong.

Did you love to pull apart the freshly strached bands...what a special sound that was!

Oh yes. And I had favourite pairs of bands too. Some of them were a bit flimsie and simply didn't look right.

I have a lovely ankle length camel (coloured) coat which I wouldn't be without. Unfortunately I have to pick up the front when climbing steps and it used the get trapped in car doors though I now remember to wrap it round me.

I still have a "British Warm" bought when I was still in the Army ---
You only need to buy one -- in a lifetime !!!

sejintenej wrote:(Incidentally you lose almost 90% of body heat through the scalp).

I read an article which observed that this was nonsense, depending on your interpretation, because of the way the test was done.

The study which demonstrated this was measuring a FULLY CLOTHED person - and demonstrated that 90% of the heat lost by the person was through the head - one of the few parts of the body which wasn't clothed, and thus very logical! Most of the remaining 10% was lost from the hands, and I guess a little through the clothes.

If the person was naked, this would provide a sensible % to go on - but as it is, it's simply a statement of the obvious!

J