I was quite amused to notice after my spinning session that I’d released so much water vapour into the air that the windows in the adjacent kitchen had steamed up!

I’ve got an unheated cellar directly below the kitchen and that has been below freezing point for about 3 weeks so the ceramic-tiled kitchen floor has been really cold.

I can put up with the usual degree of cold we get here in Yorkshire. I don’t have central heating or double glazing so the house gets quite cold, but that’s okay, I just wear more clothing.

This past bitterly cold month though, I’ve been wearing a long-sleeved base layer, a heavy t-shirt, a big heavy jumper, one buff round my neck and a second one on my head to keep my bald spot warm, and that is with a gas fire on in the room! I’m glad it has warmed up now, though I don’t like the overcast drizzly conditions that brought the milder temperatures.