"Cold"? In Fresno? Relatively not, I suppose, compared to the experience of us Midwesterners. Ken has likely known "toe-nail" curl up in the sub-zero temperatures occasionally experienced in Michigan! Frank
I thought you lived in NZ for over 20 years Lon,?.. and what's with having a framed picture on every bed...is this some kind of fetish?>..
Not quite. My wife had a separate bed room in the cottage with a Queen Size bed and we usually slept together.
In the late 80s I went from a lifetime of traditional beds to a "full slop" water bed. For the uninitiated, you can get waterbeds that have a baffles in them to repress the wave motion: >more baffles=less/no motion >no baffles = full slop I loved it. It was so embryonic. Then maybe 10 years later I ruptured a disc in my neck. I recall the "Pop!" (and the pain) as I crawled out of that bed one morning. I don't know if the bed was a contributing factor, but after surgery and recovery, I switched back to a regular mattress queen bed.
I have only slept in a water bed one night. While spending the night at my brother's, he had a water bed. I found it interesting but difficult.
Water beds take some getting used to. There is no real support. When you try to push yourself up, the mattress pushes away from you.
When I met my husband, he had a water bed. Sadly for him, I get motion sickness so he had to choose between me and the bed. I'm still here so we see how that turned out.
When it comes to "couples," water beds are not the cliches they are claimed to be...quite the opposite. Nor are they good for pet owners. When I had my water bed, my cat was still around. One night about 3AM I woke up with my underwear soaked. "No way! No way! I did not just do that!! For goodness sake, I'm in my thirties!!!! There's no way!!!" I got out of bed and looked, and there was a little hole right at my waist where the cat punctured the bed with a claw. I could tell by the look it was intentional.