wheat heat

[julesjones]

My shoulder is bad again. Not bad enough to be a real problem, but enough for me to want a heat pack when I get into the office on a cold morning. Hot water bottles are good, and I have a hot water bottle in a furry cover in my desk as an Official Disability Adjustment, but the problem is that I have to *hold* it on my shoulder with the other hand, which does not do much for my ability to work in the meantime. So I finally went and got myself a wheat-filled microwave heat pack.

I'd never bothered with these, because they have a reputation for cooling down very quickly. This reputation appears to be well-deserved. It doesn't seem to hold usable heat for more than about twenty minutes before needing to be re-stoked, which is a bit of a faff. On the other hand, a floppy sausage shape stays draped in the correct place over my shoulder without having to be held there.

A slightly fuzzy, extremely purple fabric sausage. There were pink ones as well, but I did not think that an extremely pink fabric sausage would be a good idea as a shoulder decoration. Not given my colleagues' sense of humour. :-)

Comments

[green_knight]

I had one of those which I've put on top of the heater before I went to bed, to have nicely warm toes.

The mice loved it :-(

[julesjones]

I suspect this is not going to be a problem for mine, given the vast array of sweets, biscuits and crisps around the office.

[green_knight]

I've lived next to a barn, so I'm familiar with mice, and every bit of food I have is in a mouseproof container.

'The heating pad I use in winter' was living at the foot of my bed, and not for the first year either. I get mice with every cold spell in autumn, normally they're not a problem, and I can haz mousetrap.

Which I bait with chocolate. Works a treat. (Sorry.)

[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

This is where Beddy-Bears are useful. Being teddy bears, they're decorative when not in use and also flop nicely - especially in the neck area. And cannot be mistaken for other objects when not in a nice sensible brown colour ...

[julesjones]

Thank you for that thought, I have just added one to my Amazon wish list. :-)

[vaughan-steph.livejournal.com]

Do you have ThermaCare (www.thermacare.com) products anywhere about? My god, I wish I'd bought stock when they first came on the market. They rate 3rd as Best Inventions Ever, behind heated mattress pads and coffee makers on timers.