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Imagine a child today waking up to find frost on the windows, on the inside, and stepping out of bed on to ice-cold lino. Washing in tepid water because there's no hot water left. Going downstairs to find the coal fire, the only source of heating in the house, is just being lit and what bit of warmth it's got is going straight up the chimney. Walking to school no matter how cold, wet, windy or snowy it is, or how far it is.
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Jeez, I had forgotten that. I lived in a prefab for the first 9 years of my life. I used to get up especially to scratch pictures on the frost on the inside of the window.