{"id":998,"date":"2019-07-19T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=998"},"modified":"2020-03-20T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:25:27","slug":"a-serious-hottie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/a-serious-hottie\/","title":{"rendered":"A serious Hottie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sjoe! It\u2019s\nbecome rather cold lately. Of course, I suppose that\u2019s to be expected, seeing\nas it is now winter, but honestly, I am not a fan of the cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good way to\nstay warm is to do some exercise. Don\u2019t be a couch potato\u2014go for a cycle, jog,\nbrisk walk, hula hoop or do something else that you enjoy. It takes the sting\nout of winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is, however, nothing worse than climbing into an ice-cold bed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Dad is\nafraid of electric blankets, he knows somebody whose house burnt down. Seriously,\nthe entire place was raised to the ground. In fact, they were lucky to get out\nwith their lives. So electric blankets are banned in our house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve had\nvarious forms of hot water bottles too. Those electric ones that you plug into a\nsocket and make weird gurgly noises\u2026 but they don\u2019t seem to last very long. We\u2019ve\nhad bean-filled ones that you heat up in the microwave. Erk! Those only work if\nthe microwave is super clean. Mum had a proper rubber bottle but somehow she\nmanaged to lose the top. She searched and searched but it was gone. <em>I think she threw it away in the bin without\nthinking, but I\u2019m not brave enough to voice that thought.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>We\u2019ve now resorted to the hotties that my Grandmother used to make.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"930\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Old-Fashioned-Hottie-930x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Old-Fashioned-Hottie-930x1024.jpg 930w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Old-Fashioned-Hottie-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Old-Fashioned-Hottie-768x846.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Old-Fashioned-Hottie-1200x1321.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a bottle\n\u2013 any kind of bottle will do, but generally, whisky or brandy bottles work a\ntreat because they are quite thick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boil the kettle.\nVery carefully fill the bottle with boiling water\u2014use a funnel if you have\nshaky hands. If you are little, get a parental agent to do it for you. Boiling\nwater gives one of the nastiest burns, so I\u2019m not kidding when I say <em>be careful<\/em>! It works well if you put the\nbottle in the sink and fill it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Screw the top\non tightly and\u2026 here comes the best bit\u2026 put the bottle in a long sock. My Gran\nused to knot the sock at the top so that the bottle could not fall out, but we\ndon\u2019t bother with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll find\nthis hot water bottle works like a bomb. If you put it into your bed an hour or\nso before you go to sleep the bed will be nice and warm. Easy peasy.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay warm peeps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sibo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good way to stay warm is to do some exercise. Don\u2019t be a couch potato\u2014go for a cycle, jog, brisk walk, hula hoop or do something else that you enjoy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,80,48],"tags":[263,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}