Editorial: The Heated Brick: the Ideal Bed-Warmer and Foot-Warmer

摘要

Just as British Brick Society Information, 119, February' 2012, was being put to bed - the technical term makes an interesting pun - a lengthy correspondence appeared in The Guardian concerning the relative merits of a rubber hot water bottle, a stoneware pig filled with hot water, a stoneware ginger beer bottle, and an electric blanket as the modern and not so modern means of pre-heating one's bed. Curiously, the traditional warming pan, a metal pan containing hot water with a long wooden handle, was not mentioned in letters to the newspaper.