Thinking Ten - 'Toasted thoughts'

Bedsocks and hot water bottles, that rubbery smell, how hot they were when you first got into bed, how her mother had said not to hold them between your thighs because they gave you chilblains (or blotchy skin, she could never remember.)   And also, whenever they stayed at Granny’s house, toast, done over the fire with a long-handled toasting fork.   Granny had two of them and used to let her and her sister hold one each, always saying, ‘Don’t tell on me, your mother’d have a fit if she knew, though she used to do it herself often enough.’
Becky knew that her mother didn’t care what she and Elspeth did these days, so long as they were out of her way at the weekends.   It had been all right at the beginning, when Paul first used to come to the house, he always said ‘I like seeing the girls, you don’t need to send them away,’ but ever since that night last Christmas, when it had snowed, soon after one of the bottom panes in the window got smashed when she’d forgotten to latch it, and in the night the snow blew all over her pillow and she had woken up and cried and Mummy hadn’t heard her but Paul had and had come in to sort her out, finding her another pillow and sticking a carrier bag over the gap, Mummy had been sending them to Granny’s to stay at the weekend.


On Thursdays at T10 the prompts need to be used to denote a change in plot, today's prompts were:
 a cold night and a broken/leaky window.   This, as with so many T10 pieces was begun before I knew where it would end.