Ten benefits to central heating

1. You don’t have to run down the corridor, breathless with cold, from the kitchen to the bathroom.
2. You can get up at 6 o’clock in the morning without a will of iron.
3. Getting undressed to wash is not a teeth clattering ordeal.
4. Getting out of the shower doesn’t feel like your skin is being peeled off by ice demons.
5. You relax, rather than frown, as you enter the house.
6. You don’t have to remember to light another heater 20 minutes before you change room.
7. You don’t have one warm cheek and one cold.
8. You can stand and admire the boiler. Hear its roar.
9. Guests don’t shiver.
10. It’s warm! Gloriously so.

In case it is not apparent, central heating is a new luxury for our house, lit but 3 days ago. The novelty and excitement will wear off, so I take this opportunity to relish the joy and privilege that it is to be warm.