Filipinos, what is it like living in the UK? Any tips or practical advice?

Is water that expensive in the UK? Well, I also have to adjust on this matter. Filipinos need to shower at least once a day due to our climate (and pollution). Since it's cold in the UK, there is no need to do it everyday.

Now I know why some people on TV when they wake up, they just comb their hair, eat and go out.

I like that. How times have changed. However I'm a bit later in life than you but still had a Sunday night bath as a kid. I guess someone forgot to tell my Mum that times had moved on

I can't imagine life back then. Thanks to the hot shower, it's much easier nowadays.

I went on a meter just a few years back I wish I had done it years ago. Water companies want to make sure they are getting a "fair" payment for unmetered customers and in my opinion they overcharge to ensure that.

I don't worry about what is used. If it's used it's used. When I lived on my own I saved £170 in the first year. Even now with family it is still cheaper.

Well, all things have been put into business now.
You're one lucky man to have a free water supply.

we moved into our present house in july 2016. since then the water charges have worked out to about £1 a day. thats for everything. i spend more than that on cider !

Quite amusing reading about the weekly bath nights fifty years back

One thing that stands out in childhood days was waking up and not being able to see out of the bedroom window because there was about 5mm of ice on the inside of the window. I used to get up freezing cold and my father would be getting the fire stated by putting newspaper over the front of the fireplace to draw the air up the chimney.

Those were the days, never did us any harm

Funnily enough I was discussing Chimney breasts and fires the other day with Asawa (dont ask). In old houses the chimney breast was in the center of the house and obviously runs up to the roof. That Chimney would serve 4 fires in a terraced house. I remember as a kid seeing an open fire in both bedrooms of a terraced house. Open fire in the bedroom, seems mad now.

I was expecting my Fiancé the same thing but he take a shower daily
I can't go on without shower despite the cold weather because it's my only "me" time. Poor me

Very true because of the weather being so cold. Full shower every other day but being a filipino, i cant shake the thought of not being tidy enough. So 'half-bath' as well call it in pinas (or shower with your hair on shower cap) on those alternate days.

First time asawa mentioned half-bath I thought she meant filling the bath half full then I realised she doesn't have a bath

Thanks for your post! How is their rain different from our rains? I think here in the Philippines, save for December and January, it's hot when there is no rain so I always, always look forward to the rain. It makes me happy.

And please, feel free to share more. You said you have more to say. I'd like to hear it!

I don't know about Scotland but in England and Wales the bills for water supply and sewage disposal were known as "Water Rates" and were completely distinct from Council Rates - that paid for rubbish collection, street lights, libraries etc. Throughout my life in the UK my water has not been metered and my last bill, for a detached four bedroom house in west Wales, was £120 for water supply and £125 for sewage disposal.