just a snap

But the night-time chill has developed here and younger lad hunted this one out last week. We'd be lost without our hot water bottles.

So let's hear it for one of America's Mr Goodyear (1800-1860) for inventing vulcanzied rubber, and Croatia's Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871 - 1922) for seeing the potential in the material for making the bottle.