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Moir says she has experimented with taking a hot-water bottle swimming.

I kept the fire going and changed the hot-water bottle every hour, putting it next to his feet.

A warm bath or shower, or a hot-water bottle can be helpful, as can heated patches and creams to relieve muscle pain.

But his mother made him some hot broth instead, and put him to bed in his cigarette box with a doll’s hot-water bottle against his feet.

Pebbles has a vet physio and, when I meet her, she is lying down on a hot-water bottle receiving a massage.