When you're about 8 years old and you've having that bath you've put off for a week but eventually you get in the bath....
.. and when you're in there you don't want to leave because it's all warm everywhere and cozy and you've got your trasnformers to play with and seeing what of your mother's very expensive loctions and potions float (hay look, this £99 bottle of smelly stuff, if you squeeze it under water, it takes in the water, and then you can squeeze it outside of the water now it's full, and it sprays everwhere !) and eventually all your toes and fingers are wrinkly and it's getting cold, ok, 2 more minuites.... and then being ready where your ma' holds out the big fluffy towel that has been kept on the radiator next to the PJs (with the extra silky label for some top quality thumb sucking later on) and she hugs you dry with it. Then putting on Dad's dressing gown where the arms almost reach the floor and coming downstairs to find a volcano of mash potato and baked beens with fish finger tribal villagers standing up on the side, just in time for that new eppisode of Star Trek, which you're not really supposed to be up watching but it's OK this time 'cus Dad is off playing cards tonight with his brothers.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:32, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Hahaha!
Same here except sausages instead of fish fingers.
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:33, Reply)

You forgot the bit where the sofa is pulled over near the gas fire.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:35, Reply)

I miss gas fires.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:55, Reply)

I can't wait to get a new gas flame fire.
I can get rid of the telly then.
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:57, Reply)

You can't watch Emmerdale Farm on a gas fire

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:57, Reply)

It's all about the flickering light.
Tribal innit.

I used to live with my nan who had a real fire. I would spend all night watching it and chatting about the war.
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:58, Reply)

Get a chinmea for the back yard
You get to burn shit AND watch the flames
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:59, Reply)

They put out shit-all heat though.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:05, Reply)

Depends on the model, surely?

(The Luggage is haunted..., Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:06, Reply)

Can only speak from the one I had
pretty flames, but the idea of 'it keeping the patio warm enough to sit out on autumn evenings was bollocks.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:08, Reply)

If I ever get one again
It'll be one I can bbq in.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:28, Reply)

Do you mean "a barbeque"?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:34, Reply)

Mine does
It's toasty warm sitting near it
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:07, Reply)

Is that really how it's spelt?
I always thought it was chimeniere. Or chiminiere. Possibly with accents and such.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:34, Reply)

Chimenea

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:35, Reply)

It seems so
that's well weird. It's positively Gonzish.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:46, Reply)

I have a totally 70s Robinson Wiley

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:57, Reply)

*is well jellus*
this is a proper Gas fire, I want's one. stupid safety regulations.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:59, Reply)

Mmm... nice drowsy carbon monoxide

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:05, Reply)

I spent half my childhood curled up in front of one.
I never died nor nuffink.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:06, Reply)

Gonz, when you post like this
you cheer up the whole internet!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:54, Reply)