Is it too early to put the heating on?

We spoke with the public on their thoughts on heating their homes this winter.

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00:00No, not for ages.

00:02Oh, mine's okay now.

00:03Mine's on.

00:05What, when it gets really cold?

00:07No, I'm on me own.

00:08I'm on me own and all!

00:11Do what you like.

00:13I only have my heating on, mainly in my sitting room and so on.

00:17I don't heat off the whole house.

00:19No, if you're cold, you've got to put it on, haven't you?

00:21You know what I mean?

00:22I'd rather be warm, actually, without the meal,

00:25than be freezing cold.

00:27I have lost my winter fuel allowance.

00:29Well, half and half.

00:31I live on my own, but I host foreign students

00:35who come to Cambridge to learn English.

00:38So I have some people, usually teachers,

00:41to stay for a week or two weeks.

00:43Then I put the heating on for them.

00:45No, I have gas central heating and I have it on a timer,

00:50so it's on in the morning when people are getting up for breakfast,

00:54then it goes off during the day

00:56and then it's on around dinner time in the early evening.