A Natural And Comfortable Nights Sleep
Keeping warm at night has preoccupied mans imagination since time began and from the beginning animal skin or bird feathers have been used in one way or another.
NATO troops on winter training in Norway were recently asked to try out some specially formulated night sleeping bags made from manmade fibres and each costing over two thousand pounds sterling.
Inside their one-man tents with an outside temperature of -40 and a howling blizzard they could not sleep for the cold despite these new sleeping bags. Crawling out of their tents in the morning freezing cold and deprived of sleep they met their Norwegian counterparts looking fit and well brewing the tea.
The Norwegians had stuck with a very cheap and long used method of sleeping bag. Digging a hole in the snow just long and wide enough to sleep in they spread out the skin of an elk and lay on top of this with another skin on top.
On this a fellow soldier would shovel on snow just leaving enough space around the head to breathe.
There is a slight flaw here. There must always be a last solitary soldier to the story who either got no sleep and acted as sentry or had to pack snow over himself as well as he could.
Anyway, their sleeping skins had cost about ten pounds each and they had a perfect nights sleep which yet again tells us that animal products are frequently much better than any man made ones.
Another couple of examples of nature providing better products than anything manmade are leather shoes and woollen jumpers.
Duvets are comparatively new in the UK although they have been known on Continental Europe for at least a couple of hundred years.
They are rated in Togs; a simple word for a complicated formula of measuring thermal resistance in multiples of ten to the square metre and all duvets rate between 1.5 and 15 togs.
15 Togs is the warmest and 1.5 to 4 Togs is reckoned to be the ideal rating for warmer summer months.
Cheap duvets are filled with manmade fibre and are nothing like as good as the natural product duck and goose down filled duvets.
Goose feather filled duvets are the luxury duvets and if you can afford them they are worth every penny.
Apart from the warmth they are extremely lightweight and as a natural product they allow some small heat loss thus allowing the product to breathe and not totally trap the heat from the body which would only cause sweating.
Ever since these duvets arrived in the UK as short a time ago as forty years, they have also had one major advantage over classic bed clothes of sheets, blankets and quilts and that is that making beds is a whole lot easier!
Getting children to make their beds is no longer the hassle it used to be. All they have to do now is crawl out and straighten up the duvet.
NATO troops on winter training in Norway were recently asked to try out some specially formulated night sleeping bags made from manmade fibres and each costing over two thousand pounds sterling.
Inside their one-man tents with an outside temperature of -40 and a howling blizzard they could not sleep for the cold despite these new sleeping bags. Crawling out of their tents in the morning freezing cold and deprived of sleep they met their Norwegian counterparts looking fit and well brewing the tea.
The Norwegians had stuck with a very cheap and long used method of sleeping bag. Digging a hole in the snow just long and wide enough to sleep in they spread out the skin of an elk and lay on top of this with another skin on top.
On this a fellow soldier would shovel on snow just leaving enough space around the head to breathe.
There is a slight flaw here. There must always be a last solitary soldier to the story who either got no sleep and acted as sentry or had to pack snow over himself as well as he could.
Anyway, their sleeping skins had cost about ten pounds each and they had a perfect nights sleep which yet again tells us that animal products are frequently much better than any man made ones.
Another couple of examples of nature providing better products than anything manmade are leather shoes and woollen jumpers.
Duvets are comparatively new in the UK although they have been known on Continental Europe for at least a couple of hundred years.
They are rated in Togs; a simple word for a complicated formula of measuring thermal resistance in multiples of ten to the square metre and all duvets rate between 1.5 and 15 togs.
15 Togs is the warmest and 1.5 to 4 Togs is reckoned to be the ideal rating for warmer summer months.
Cheap duvets are filled with manmade fibre and are nothing like as good as the natural product duck and goose down filled duvets.
Goose feather filled duvets are the luxury duvets and if you can afford them they are worth every penny.
Apart from the warmth they are extremely lightweight and as a natural product they allow some small heat loss thus allowing the product to breathe and not totally trap the heat from the body which would only cause sweating.
Ever since these duvets arrived in the UK as short a time ago as forty years, they have also had one major advantage over classic bed clothes of sheets, blankets and quilts and that is that making beds is a whole lot easier!
Getting children to make their beds is no longer the hassle it used to be. All they have to do now is crawl out and straighten up the duvet.
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