Ceramic Hot Water Bottle Unit: Light and Heat

The nickname for this is a 'bed pig'.  Can you guess why?  Canberra winters are very cold and nobody in the family could stay up all night to keep the fire going so it was important to keep the beds warm.  There were other methods of warming up the beds such as bed warmers – these are like a saucepan that you filled up with hot coals from the fire and rubbed over the bed before getting in.  Some families even gave each child a hot brick in a towel to take to bed!

What else could the Blundell family have done to keep warm in bed?