We are well and truly in the depths of winter now! While we’re waiting for the sun to make a reappearance, we caught up with our Ambassador Ruth Langsford to find out how she sees out the winter.
Hey Ruth, are you struggling with these chilly mornings too?
As soon as it starts to get cold, the first thing I do is get the heating on. We have thermostat war in our house, as in a lot of households across Britain I imagine.
That sounds very familiar!
Because some men don’t seem to think we should have the heating on at all, or at least not until December, and until then we should just put a jumper on. This is what Eamonn does, he’s always hot and I’m always cold, so we now have a ‘silent’ thermostat war. We don’t even argue about it, we just do it – so I put the heating on, he turns it off, and so on!
We’re with you Ruth, we love to get snuggled up when it’s cold outside. What else do you do to bring some warmth into your home?
I start changing the scents of my candles. So if I have quite fresh smelling candles like grapefruit and linen in the summer, I start changing them for wintry scents like sandalwood and cinnamon towards the winter months.
Then obviously I start de-cluttering my wardrobe, packing away summer clothes – which is a job I loathe, but it has to be done. I do love getting the vacuum-packed bags out from the loft with my winter clothes though. I love my boots and coats, and discovering a long-forgotten jumper or trousers is almost like going shopping in your own wardrobe.
It’s great storing clothes in that way, isn’t it Ruth? It always feels like Christmas when you rediscover old favourites! We’ve switched out our summer clothes for the woolen wonders that we packed away in the Pack Mate Vacuum Bags.
