Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Wol2

Hi KC

Us southern radiator huggers need to stick together :rotfl::rotfl:

It's going to get much worse "chez nous" over the next few days so if you want to do a shopping trip tomorrow early afternoon to stock up (food/DIY whatever) before the snow comes then give us a bell

Also - this may sound very stupid and very non-MSE...but it might be a good idea to consider keeping your loft hatch open overnight just for the next few days as the night temperatures plummet increasingly lower and the the day temperatures won;t get above freezing. If you are well insulated (as I was)....then there is a chance that your pipes to the header tank in the loft might freeze cos little heat escapes from the house into the loft....(Like mine did two years ago ...and it was nowhere near as cold as it is this year )

xxx

ZTD

Wol2 wrote: »

Also - this may sound very stupid and very non-MSE...but it might be a good idea to consider keeping your loft hatch open overnight just for the next few days as the night temperatures plummet increasingly lower and the the day temperatures won;t get above freezing. If you are well insulated (as I was)....then there is a chance that your pipes to the header tank in the loft might freeze cos little heat escapes from the house into the loft....(Like mine did two years ago ...and it was nowhere near as cold as it is this year )

xxx

The proper solution for that is you don't insulate directly under your header tank, leave a bare square for the heat to rise. I've also seen it when it was insulated *over* the tank - looked like Cousin It in the gloom... :eek:

Lula-Hula

Morning KC & Crew,

proper southerner here - but not at all averse to learning new lingo - I always thought ' deffo ' was australian :rotfl:

Just a dustin of snow here so cant play snowballs, will have to got to work instead

Have a good day everyone
xx

Kittikins

Grrr, we now have snow - or at least we do here KC, hope it's "nice" where you are, I'm trying not to panic about the school/office run.....*sigh*

Karmacat

Wol2 wrote: »

Hi KC

Hiya!:wave:

Us southern radiator huggers need to stick together :rotfl::rotfl:

It's going to get much worse "chez nous" over the next few days so if you want to do a shopping trip tomorrow early afternoon to stock up (food/DIY whatever) before the snow comes then give us a bell

Aww, thank you! No problems tho - I'm working till 3.30, and anyway, my house is stuffed to the gills with dried carbs (rice and g/f pasta, and I bought some organic millet at Infinity yesterday to try out), bags of veg in the freezer, dried fruit and beans - I'll be fine. I hope you're okay - you've got lots of little lives depending on you. Hopping over to your thread in a minute.

Also - this may sound very stupid and very non-MSE...but it might be a good idea to consider keeping your loft hatch open overnight just for the next few days as the night temperatures plummet increasingly lower and the the day temperatures won;t get above freezing. If you are well insulated (as I was)....then there is a chance that your pipes to the header tank in the loft might freeze cos little heat escapes from the house into the loft....(Like mine did two years ago ...and it was nowhere near as cold as it is this year )

Oh, now thats a very good idea. I'm better insulated than I was, because I brought a lot with me, but I don't know how well the tank itself is insulated.... but I won't need to open the loft hatch, because there's a gap already its about half a cm by 6cm .... do you think that'll be enough?

xxx

Hugs to you, Wol. :coffee::santa2:

Karmacat

Morning all! Well, the snow has come to visit, tho very lightly compared to the rest of the country, and we've currently got that slow rain stuff that can't quite get it together to become snow. Chilly tho.

I have 2.5 hours paid work today, both people coming down from London, tho it should be okay, its such a main commuter line. Otherwise, now my accounts have gone in, its tidying up and catching up on paperwork and doing phone calls - I know I won't do all of those, as I loathe them, but I'll have to do one or two. The list is too boring to write out, so I won't

What I will write: I woke up early this morning, before 6, put the heat straight on while I made a :coffee: then got up and made another one, but with coffee in this time (organic nowadays!) and went back to bed *again*. The luxury! Loved it.

se999

KC - how far along are you with your garden design/planning. Just thought of some ideas which could be worth a look, first is Geoff Hamilton Kitchen Garden, where you mix the veg etc in with the flowers, so you have a garden that looks good but is also productive (I used this idea for redesigning my last London suburb garden). The other idea to look into is 'square foot gardening', where you use small square foot plantings, for only 1 or 2 people it naturally leads to planting/growing smaller quantities which reduces the potential waste of gluts, it can also look quite decorative too, admittedly not tried this one yet. It does maximise the veg production you want in limited space.

Also lots of flowers etc are edible, so with selective planting you can eat some of the more decorative bits.

Karmacat

Morning! These are good ideas - the mixing in will have to happen, really, as there are some big, almost architectural plants that I can't shift - a hazel tree, a mahonia, one rhodedendron thats staying and a fruit bearing something or other down one side, and on the other a potentilla, a berry something, two buddleias, two lavenders, a rosemary and something variegated. I love the principle of it for *plants*, as opposed to seeds - for the mix-it-in stuff, I'll use fruit bushes and clumps of spring onions and beetroot.

se999 wrote: »

KC - how far along are you with your garden design/planning. Just thought of some ideas which could be worth a look, first is Geoff Hamilton Kitchen Garden, where you mix the veg etc in with the flowers, so you have a garden that looks good but is also productive (I used this idea for redesigning my last London suburb garden). The other idea to look into is 'square foot gardening', where you use small square foot plantings, for only 1 or 2 people it naturally leads to planting/growing smaller quantities which reduces the potential waste of gluts, it can also look quite decorative too, admittedly not tried this one yet. It does maximise the veg production you want in limited space.

Also lots of flowers etc are edible, so with selective planting you can eat some of the more decorative bits.

For most things growing from seed, I'll have to use the old fashioned straight line planting at first - because I never recognise whats a seed and whats a weed, I've done very little straight-from-seed gardening I have an old wooden bedframe (30 years old! when I bought my first flat) thats going to mark out the bed - so it'll be 4' 6" wide - I *might* need a few stepping stones in the middle. I have one already - my wooden chopping board is badly split - and there are some bricks around that will do nicely.

I'll try to open up my photobucket account one day soon, and post up the excel worksheet there, and you can see what I'm rabbiting about.

Thanks for the checks!

redsquirrel80

Ooh exciting garden planning! Slightly jealous that you got to go back to bed with your coffee

Pippilongstocking

Hope today went well - garden sounding great!