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You tell me, Alan. Could it be a perceived threat to your lifestyle, that might be imposed by environmentalists? Might it lead to an increase in your costs of energy consumption? Might that be why?
Ah ha - clever, basing the questions on lifestyle, environment and energy.
Seriously, I remember the days before bathrooms, inside toilets, central heating, insulation and double glazing.
I remember the beautiful ice patterns on the inside of house windows.
I remember having to clear out the fire grate every morning, lay down fresh newspaper, wood kindle and small bits of coal and get the fire going again before going outside and filling the coal bucket with fresh coal.
I remember the tin bath being unhooked from the wall in the outside toilet and being set up in front of the fire in the front room, mum heating up kettle after kettle of hot water on the gas stove, then each of us having a bath starting with with me the youngest and ending with dad. Bath day was once a week.
The good old days of a working-class family during the 1950s when I was a small child.
How's that for lifestyle, environment and energy?