Preparing for winter II

toontron

Ok, here is a forecast for winter for you all, if you get on to this website, you can look at the earlier months too! These guys are usually bang on the money!

http://www.positiveweathersolutions.co.uk/UK-Winter-2010-11-Long-Range-Weather-Forecast.php

csarina

Yesterday was horrid wet, cold and windy, today has been fabulous......bright and sunny, the wind did get up thi safternoon but it helped to dry my 3 loads of washing!!

Yesterday I lit the fire and we had to open the sitting room windows, no fire tonight its too blooming warm.!!

Confuzzled

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

The poster I was responding to (butler_helen) very kindly provided a link to the ebay listing for them:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GENUINE-LAMBSWOOL-INSOLE-UK-8-CUSHION-SOLE-NEW-WARM-/230532649302?pt=Women_s_Shoes&hash=item35acd11156

speaking of those, i clicked on that link and had a look and then remembered that i needed to order some yak trax like things for my shoes (thank you for the reminder even if it was inadvertant!)

i simply cannot afford to fall this year. my knees have become really bad and without going into too much gross details the cartilege is slipping and wearing away badly in my right knee making bending it in certain positions nigh on impossible and i can't sidestep anymore, i can't pivot and most importantly i can't just stop suddenly without either falling over or my leg popping and then it buckling so i HAD to order those.

mind you i've not been walking outside as much but i can't afford the taxi all the time and i could really do with some exercise so i figured better safe than sorry, plus we have a mini holiday in edinburgh's christmas village this year and the annual trip to grans and there will likely be snow if it's to be like it was last year... not like these will go off if i don't get to use them

i got them for a fair price if anyone is interested they have some left
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230533342663&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

bluebag

Can't believe how early it's getting dark now, I find the long nights get me a bit 'down' so I make the most of the daylight.
I try to go out even when it's cold, although today was glorious.

I hope we don't have a winter as icy as last, getting about was nigh on impossible at times. Might get me some of those anti slippy-slidey shoe things Confuzzled linked to just in case.

Caterina

Good to see the thread up and going again, it must be that time of year...

It is great that even with the rain and the wind howling out there the temperature is still quite mild. In days past it was quite cold (even here in London) and we have put the woodstove on, almost as a trial run. However it is no longer necessary at the moment.

The main preparation we have made has been scavenging as much wood over the summer as possible. We were very lucky to have found a skip full of perfectly cut logs that only needed chopping in smaller pieces, so we stocked up the woodshed and some!

Thermals are still ok from two years ago, we have enough jumpers and winter shoes and the only thing that I could do with is a really warm, waterproof raincoat, so I am going hunting in the charity shops in the next few weeks. DH also would like an overcoat but as he has to be quite smart at work he will probably have to get it new from the shops (perhaps I can persuade him to get it from John Lewis as we have some vouchers and I can get points on the card!).

The challenge (only to ourselves, not to anyone else!!!) is on for holding back from putting the central heating on before 1st November. See how it goes!

NualaBuala

For anyone in Ireland, Lidl are doing thermals next Monday 11th http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20101011.p.Ladies_Thermal_Vest

Not sure if you have the same offers in the UK, I know we didn't have the wool offers when you had it.

Sylvan

dandy-candy wrote: »

Wow I put the heating on for an hour this evening cos i felt chilly, then i've just looked on an America forum I post on and one of the women in Texas said it's minus 2 there! Boy do I feel like a whiner now!

I sent my sympathy to a friend in Texas and he said he couldn't understand that because it's currently 29C where he is.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/ustx0436

Another friend suggested I might have been mixing up Fahrenheit and Centigrade because 29F is about -2C.

Sylvan

termie wrote: »

:eek:Hi Sylvan
my flat is currently just heated in the sitting room when it's chilly (fan heater the heating boiler is broke), so i'm guessing the bed room temperature (south facing, but on a windy corner) is maybe slightly above outside about 15 degrees maybe? i know the advice on the dehumidifier was not to run it at under 5 degrees (but hoping it won't get that cold inside the house :eek: ) it fills up in about a day and a half if i have washing drier (which is constant as we seem to have a permenant rain cloud over us )

Yours sounds similar to ours. It's good to know drying the washing doesn't make too much difference. I really want to avoid using the tumble dryer. We bought one of those electrically heated airers that's supposed to cost about 1p an hour but I wasn't sure whether it was a good idea, with the amount of water we already have in the air.

I hope it never gets that cold inside our house either! In 1982 I had ice on the insides of my windows. I told hubby, when we got married, that I would never let that happen to my children again. Would be just my luck, now that the kids have grown up...:eek:

bluebag

Brrrrr, I remember my childhood, outside lavvy, impossible to flush as the water froze in the bowl, had to get a kettle to defrost it.
Thick frost making the most amazing patterns on the inside of the windows. My dads thick coat on the bed because we couldn't afford blankets.
I don't know how I survived really.

Love, love, love my warm home now.

Sylvan

BLUis wrote: »

I have bought some fleeces from AS*A - 2 for £3.00

They are almost a perfect fit for my curtains across the whole house. I have bought 4 red ones and 2 brown ones, so the living room, my bedroom and my sons room are all covered. I just need to get some purple (or close colour) for my daughters room now!

I can testify that they are quite snuggly as I fell asleep under one yesterday (after a very very late night Saturday!)

I can't find them on the website though, so I can't post a link

We bought 2 red ones and 2 brown ones on Thursday, to try them out (intending to buy more when we have to go into town again in a couple of weeks). Hubby thought we should wash DS5's curtains first. He gets up very early in the mornings so he decided to get it all sorted out and give me a surprise, but the curtains were still wet, so he put them in the tumble dryer, sewed the fleeces into them, put the curtain hooks back on and went to hang them up - which was when he discovered the tumble dryer had shrunk them.:rotfl: