Hot water bottle

I have been showering cold for years now. It’s fine! I feel really invigorated afterwards. But I do admit I sometimes come out with cold hands and/or feet. Especially in winter, of course. 

The hands are not a problem. The feet aren’t when I am just coming home from work. I make sure to shower pretty much straight away, as then I have hours to get them to warm up again before it’s bedtime. But it's not unusual for me to come home later. That tends to happen on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for reasons of Track Tuesday and Thursday Night Hill training. I often am home about 8:30 on Tuesday and 9:00 on Thursday. And I try to go to bed at 10:00. So that doesn't leave a lot of time to warm up my feet.

My standard attempt is to just light a fire. If the whole room gets warm, then sooner or later my feet get warm. And I can also put them quite close to the fire. It tends to work. But warming up an entire room to get warm feet is not very efficient; neither with regard to fuel nor time. 

The answer is obvious, of course. But I just wasn't used to it. Someone reminded me of the existence of hot water bottles and I figured I should probably give that a go. Just heating half a litre of water is quite quick! And I don't have a dedicated water bottle, but if you just put a metal water bottle in a thick sock you have the same thing.

I've tried it a few times now. It works! I put it in my bed and place my feet on either side of it. And then I can sleep like a log.

As it is now April, and fully spring, so I don't think I will be using it a lot more. But I will make sure that my little water bottle and my sock are ready when autumn hits again!