Now it's got cold...
I've just been reminded of my very favourite bits of obsolete low-tech.

My Victorian hot pigs are awesome. They're honking great thick-walled ceramic bottles with screw-tops; you fill them with boiling water and they stay hot ALL NIGHT, none of this finding your hot-water-bottle all cold and flobby and disgusting in the morning. We've had them since I was a poor child from a family with no central heating and I would have fought my sister for them when the time came to divvy everything up.

I love my hot pigs.
(littlesunshine licked your blinky diodes on, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:34, 7 replies)

Having an extemely cold room and being annoyed at microwave toys and flimsy....
hot water bottles that I'm scared to hug in case they burst, where can you now find these "hot pigs"? Do they go by other names?
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:03, closed)

ebay is your friend
shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=ceramic+hot+water+bottle
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 19:34, closed)

Thanks for this tip
I'll buy some to put in the shed to keep my guinea pigs warm on freezing winter nights.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 17:52, closed)

charity shops
hunt around and you can find one for a couple of pounds.
( schizophrenic_sheep, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 19:37, closed)

Both of the above
And it's worth checking out antique shops too. Hot pigs aren't very decorative or collectable, so the markup might not be too ridiculous.
(littlesunshine licked your blinky diodes on, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 11:01, closed)

luxury!
I would have dreamed of having hot pigs, we used old pop bottles
"Lowcocks" pop bottles to be precise
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 18:13, closed)

those things are brilliant

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 19:32, closed)