You're using the heating this year? All these Hive blogs must be paying you big time haha!
It certainly is that time of year when the thought of putting the heating on creeps back in! And the thought of making some homemade soup So far I've slothed it out, there's only been a couple of nights when I was tempted, so far it's been a rather mild October! Long may it continue, and the heating can stay off until Novemeber!
Usually we get by with just firing up the heater in the morning to bring up the temps a bit... works until we get regular freezes. Alas, it's not Hive funding this.
Hot soup is good, though! And soup simmering in a cast iron post all day works as its own small heater in the kitchen/dining area.