When guests climb into bed, they find a flannel-covered hot water bottle tucked between the sheets, even in summer.

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Or curl up with a hot water bottle as the temperature drops and listen to the whoop calls of hyena as you drift off to sleep.

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And then one of them must have come back that night or another, because I woke up in the small hours with a hot-water bottle under my feet.

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Ivory Coast international Drogba had been spotted with a hot-water bottle as he watched from the dugout during the opening half but it did not take him long to get warmed-up.

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Then, as the ceiling continued to ooze hot molten foam, dos Santos grabbed the drummer's water bottle and aimed it at the fire.

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