When do the words
smelly and comfort
mean the same?
Did you just say “Impossible”???
Ha (rubs paws gleefully)!
When you’re referring to….
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…blankets, of course!
SMELLY BLANKET and COMFORT BLANKET mean exactly the same thing!!!
In Beijing, all homes are equipped with central heating, be it heating pipes, floor heating or through the air-conditioning vents.
For the average home, you need to pay a certain fee around the region of CNY 5,000 or so for a 150 sqm apartment, and that constitutes your heating fee for the whole of winter. If you rent a house, it’s usually included in the rental amount, so you wouldn’t need to worry about paying for heating fees. The plus points are of course relatively low-cost compared to the other type of heating (which I will explain right after this). However, you can only control the heaters up to a certain temperature and that’s it. If you’re thinking of having your own home sauna, then you need to stay in the next type of home.
For these other types of homes, you’re required to ‘burn’ your own heating, which means you use natural gas to power up the heaters. Yes, that’s the same gas Big People use to cook! Cost-wise could be around the same unless you’re willing to spend more to keep your homes really HOT and cosy which means, your heating bills could easily triple up. Of course, the size of your home is a factor too, so the bigger your home, the higher your cost.
In my home, it’s centrally controlled heating so we pay our annual heating fee to the management office. For some reason, the heaters work wonderfully well to the extent that my Big People sometimes open the balcony door to let some cold air in, because they’re sweating at home in winter!
On reeeallly cold winter days, it’s a different story altogether and Big Lady gets out her spare quilt, so she can get all snug and cosy on the sofa. Naturally, Truffle, the Pooch, gets a share of snugness and cosiness too!
Snuggling up with Big Lady on the couch
I found the quilt so comfortable in warming my little paws that I started using it all the time, so much so that Big Man decided to give me this blanket.
Tucked between my Big People atop my blanket
This means that it’s MINE and from now on, Big Lady actually has to borrow it from me! HA!!!
Mine mine mine!!!
In a few years from now, I’ll be able to look back and proudly proclaim that I had a smelly slash comfort blanket too!!! Just like you Big People!!! (Note: Big Lady told me it’s called bantal busuk in Malaysia.)
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This was the story a few months back. It’s summer now and I’m all hot and grumpy!!! I can’t even sleep on my bed anymore because it’s too warm! AIR-CONDITIONING PLEASE!!!!!!!!
All hot and bothered
