I guess it's that time of year again!

[Betsy]

As I was putting the washing out on the line this morning and couldn't feel my fingertips when I'd finished (such is my devotion to not putting on my tumble dryer and therefore saving on the electricity), I realised that now is the time for the Snugglesafes to put in an appearance overnight again soon. As mine are getting rather old now, I have invested in 3 new ones from Amazon (at around £15 each) and they will arrive tomorrow (I have Amazon Prime). The duvet will be coming down over the hutch again and I'll have to pop a fleece over the cage to keep Misty and Bramble warm. It was 17 degrees overnight in the garage so not too cold at the moment. There is always loads of hay in both cage and hutch and warm fleecy snuggle sacks and tunnels and all 3 piggies have grown a nice warm insulating underfur that definitely wasn't there in the summer. They will be cleaned out twice a week from now on and as they are on fleece and the snugglesacks/tunnels changed every day. (I do love more piggy washing in the winter! ) Luckily I have a spare room upstairs that the piggy stuff dries in overnight.

 

[piggieminder]

We had frost on the workshop roof this morning. Explains why I woke up with cold feet in the night and had to get up and put a pair of socks on! Time to dig out the thicker duvet.

 

[eileen]

ive noticed its been chillier in the last two days.
you look after your piggies so well.
ive got piggies in the spare room,i will use snugglesafes for the skinny pigs.i use dispoasable bedding i cannot cope with all the washing for 4 cages ,good luck.

 

[Bertie & Jelly]

My piggies are in the spare room and the temperature first thing was only 17.1 degrees. I’m moving into your garage I think @Betsy

 

[Betsy]

My piggies are in the spare room and the temperature first thing was only 17.1 degrees. I’m moving into your garage I think @Betsy

My garage is South facing, attached to the house, the caravan is in front of it, next doors garage is about a foot away and there is a big 6ft wide hedge behind it about 3 ft away
. It is also insulated so never gets too cold even in the depths of winter.

 

[rp1993]

I may have popped the heating on for an hour or so the past few days, the weather have definitely took a turn!

 

[poggle]

I may have popped the heating on for an hour or so the past few days, the weather have definitely took a turn!

We gave in and turned ours on today. Halfway through autumn and it's starting to actually to feel like it

(Carefully explained to my son that the radiator was hot (he knows 'hot' from trying to steal my tea)... he promptly licked it I'd made sure it was just warm rather than really hot, but still!)

 

[Eriathwen]

I've had my heating off and on since August the piggy room can get a little chilly and I was worried about Ivy's babies being born and getting cold due to being wet, then of course the 3 pigs that had surgery.. and then of course Tilly absolutely adores having the radiator on and sleeps as close to it as possible. I'm soft, so I figured who am I to deny an 8+ year old elderly lady a nice warm radiator

Mum's even had the fire on downstairs for a bit to take the chill off (we only have radiators upstairs for some reason..didn't notice when we bought the house lol!)

 

[Lorcan]

I've had my heating off and on since August

Same, although the goblins are bald, so

I had been upstairs, heating on, desk fan on (for vapour's sake, just to keep it moving a bit) and I'd gone downstairs for something, came back up, and the fan was making me cold. But why would the fan be making me cold? I mean I'd had it on all morning?

Oh, it was because I went downstairs. THAT's been the cold "trigger". Heating's now on for the 3rd time since I woke up, but the temp in the bedroom keeps dropping too much. And it's wet in there (71% humidity currently, and that's with dehumidifiers) which doesn't help. I blame the house. It's the house's fault.

 

[Merab]

Our heating came on properly this morning after a few half hearted attempts over the past few days.
We keep the house at a constant 17 degrees during the daytime and 16 at night.
The piggies have plenty of nice warm fleecy things which they either ignore or sleep on top of!
My hot water bottle has come out of summer hibernation
So glad we have solar panels now.
I feel I can use the dryer to finish off drying washing that almost dry.