I've always been pretty wary of the idea of Electric Blankets - I seem to remember as a child hearing about fires caused by them, and I think that stayed in my mind. However, when my parents purchased one last year, they went on and on about how good it was, and a couple of months ago, my dad decided to buy me one as I was suffering from a particularly nasty bout of flu that had me feeling permanently freezing. I was pretty excited to try it - it came packaged in a plastic zip up bag, neatly folded inside a purple card insert that extolled the various virtues of the product, and came with instructions . The kind my dad purchased was an underblanket ...  Read the complete review

I'm one of those people who is always complaining about the cold and switching the heating on for an hour, unfortunately my husband who possibly has a little more natural insulation than I do is a warm type of person and he is always switching it back off. To counteract the lack of heat in the house (in my opinion) I always had to take a hot water bottle to bed in the winter. My last one had a lovely pink fleece coat to allow you to rest your cold tootsies on it even when newly filled. This bottle and my fleece pyjamas (sexy they are not, comfy and hot they are) were the mainstay of my winter survival. Then one night I filled the hot water bottle, sat on ...  Read the complete review