Elderly impoverished book loving Presbyterian Scots were forced to purchase outdated encyclopedias and other old books from second hand stores and burn them in their stoves to stay warm over a recent brutal winter. They couldn’t afford carbon fuels. They felt ashamed and humiliated but survived.
There should be a bunch of Hillary’s books moldering away in some warehouse.Send those poor folks those.
Hmmm.
British pensioners get winter fuel allowance from the Govt and help with heating and heating costs. You make the UK sound like some hellhole.
Also very few UK houses have stoves these days, the ‘newer’ houses (ie those built since the 60’s) have central heating as a legal requirement. Unless they live in some old big house, UK old folks like in a home with central heating and a fire, either coal or electric, usually the latter.