Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!

Hurrah......

GDB2222

Walked to the shops this afternoon, chilly, but a gorgeous sunny wintery day. Still some leaves on the trees. Snow, what snow?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

If my keypad were under the duvet so would my screen be!

Tents! Just like when you're a kid. Great fun.

PasturesNew

I am sitting here with yet another hail storm lashing ferociously upon us.... it's been on/off like this for the last 2 hours.

dopester

SingleSue wrote: »

I officially have feet that feel like blocks of ice....oh and my car doors were frozen shut this morning!

Part of the winterisation I do of our cars, is to spray the rubber door seals with silicone grease. Well.. spray a rag with the silicone grease spray and then apply to the door seals. (Edit: Regular clear silicone grease/lubricant spray, and NOT white silicone grease spray)

I don't want to take the chance of the doors sticking, and the door seals ripping, when trying to open them on a cold winter morning. It's a cheap useful solution, keeps the seals supple and from freezing, and the silicone grease doesn't damage the rubber (so I've been reliably told on multiple threads) nor attracts particles of dirt, like WD-40 and other greases do.. eventually causing deterioration, or rust when used on exposed metal. The more specialised and expensive product, Gummi Pflege (ebay link), from Germany, and previously only available from the parts stockists at BMW showrooms does the same.

We got the electric blankets out yesterday and fitted them to 2 of the beds at home... not mine though. They are pretty cheap to run, on an overnight setting, to keep you warm in bed at night. (I felt the top of matress last night with my hand on its low setting to check how good it was, and was toasty), but come with lots of conditions.. like need to be tested for safety once a year... although instances of reported house fires caused by electric blankets are normally 10 years+ blankets.)

‘Use your Dreamland electric blanket for less than £2.00 per year!’*
(*) based on a use of 8 hours per night, period mid Oct-mid Apr. Source EU Eurostat Report: average Electricity cost in UK 2nd Semester 2007

http://www.boots.com/en/Dreamland-Soft-Fleece-Dual-Control-Under-Blanket-Double_14935/#detailedInfo

dopester

Just caught up with Lir's electric blanket posts. Point 1) is a bit worrying... but I don't think I'll mention it to the family members I've fitted their electric blankets on to the bed. There so many reported health risks linked by science reports to x-y and z, sometimes I doubt them, so without some convincing detail, I'll let them chance it.

And after all.. they only bought their (expensive.. £50ish) electric blankets in Nov 2009 so I want them to get some monies worth.

PasturesNew

You can get those big blanket/dressing gown type things that plug in now too. I can't remember the name of the things.

Davesnave

All this talk of cold.....It's many, many years since I had chilblains. Sitting up on the roof yesterday, trying to hold the short nails and bang 'em in, I realised that the only parts of me that were really numb & useless were my fingers. Everything took 3 times longer.

It took me right back to helping in the family fish shop in the 1960s, when we'd open up the wooden boxes on some dire February morning and plunge our hands into the ice to fetch out our cod, haddock etc. I'd be crying with the cold, and then, despite dire warnings from my parents, I'd stick my frozen hands in a bowl of luke warm water to get some relief. Sure enough, the next day my hands would be inflamed below the nails, itching like crazy, yet they'd be really sore when I scratched them.

I once asked the kids in my class about chilblains, probably during a history lesson. None of them knew what I was talking about! :rotfl:

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

You can get those big blanket/dressing gown type things that plug in now too. I can't remember the name of the things.

Don't know about you but I have to wee a lot when its cold. Rather than keeping myself warm, I'd probably electrocute myself.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Don't know about you but I have to wee a lot when its cold. Rather than keeping myself warm, I'd probably electrocute myself.

No, I don't have to do that.

How uncouth of you to debase this lovely people's thread with your personal bodily functions.