Heating the Person and Not the Space Has its Drawbacks

It depends on where you live.

Mistaken for a snowscape. Local park, close to sunset (3.30pm), Yorkshire, UK. Image © Linda Acaster

I had to smile when I read an interesting piece from Clive Thompson In Praise of the Hot-Water Bottle, which he’d sourced from deep in a cupboard when he fell ill.

Here in the UK, hot-water bottles are in every shop imaginable — the traditional flat rubber bottle, the mini, the long-sausage, and…