Preparing for winter II

QueenBeruthiel

anguk wrote: »

This country has massive debts due to the spending of the last government ....

Spent on bailing out the banks. Their debt has now been transferred to the taxpayers. Are these guilty men suffering? I don't think so.

mcjordi

bloody cold and windy here..

toontron

Oh, I am sorry but I am viewing this with a mixture of incredulity and amusement. Anyone would think we were expecting the next ice age!

mcjordi

toontron wrote: »

Oh, I am sorry but I am viewing this with a mixture of incredulity and amusement. Anyone would think we were expecting the next ice age!

always one

fluffymuffin123

Morning All,

Should we have power cuts and people are worried that their frozen food would spoil, I fill 2lt old lemonade bottles with water and stuff them between the food in the freezer, when they are frozen they are big sticks of ice and could keep the frozen food frozen for longer should the power be off. Only if there is enough room of course, also when our power goes out I can quickly transfer one or two to the fridge in an attempt to keep the fridge chilled untill the power is back on. It's just a thought..

ceridwen

anguk wrote: »

I agree with you there. This country has massive debts due to the spending of the last government and, as we all know, if you spend and run up debts the time will come when cuts have to be made to pay that money back. The government is no different from the individual in that respect, go mad and spend and it will come back and bite you in the bum one day.

However like you I believe there are many areas where ridiculous amounts of money are wasted and cuts should be made there.

The trouble is that it would be fair enough for us to suffer cuts if WE personally had the benefit of the spending of the last few years. As the spending has gone largely on fighting wars and giving a variety of new "bits of money" to people to have children - personally I havent had the benefit of any of it (being neither a parent nor working in the Arms Industry) - but will still get lumbered with the effect of some of the cuts:(:mad:.

Winged_one

It was very very windy yesterday, and this morning it is still pretty windy but lashing rain with it. And dark. Winter has definitely started to rear it's head!

diddly74

I am so glad I found this thread!!!! Personally don't think any of this talk about governments, how they got in or anything is really adding any value to it, which up until the last couple of pages I was really enjoying! The fact of the matter is "we are in the poo" and one way or another - whoever is in "power", and however we got there we have to get out of it. End of story.

On another note - I need a little bit of help - so everyone thinking caps on.

We moved into a new home in June so don't really know how or where the cold is going to invade our cosy lives really yet. We are renting now and the boiler was serviced just before we moved in and all the heating tested so we are happy with that - but not really had to put the heating on yet (only had it on a couple of times for tests). The cavity walls have been done and the loft is so full of insulation I can't get in there!!!

We have a garage connected to our kitchen and as our 2 staffies now live in there we have to have the connecting door open. Does anyone have any good ideas on how to cover, seal or whatever the up and over garage door which has a whacking big gap all the way round. Obviously a heavy draft excluder needs to be made to go along the bottom. Whats the best stuff to be filling one with????

I have been looking the charity shops by me and they don't seem to have many things like blankets or such to make up a snuggly tent for the pooches - no they are not sleeping in the house!!! I have already surrounded their cage with cardboard - but if I put anything in the bed they have a tendancy to chew it up! grr!

Reading this thread has given me the idea to put a heavy door curtain over the connecting doorway, this way the gap is blocked but the pooches can still pass thru, as can the cats which are also fed in the garage which will make the downstairs less draft - its open plan layout and there are no internal doors on the groundfloor apart from the hall door to the front porch and the one to the garage!

We already have a emergency cupboard of torches and candles - which I always have stocked - u never know in this country be is summer or winter when you need one! The car box is a fab idea and so is the meds box.

anguk

fluffymuffin123 wrote: »

Morning All,

Should we have power cuts and people are worried that their frozen food would spoil, I fill 2lt old lemonade bottles with water and stuff them between the food in the freezer, when they are frozen they are big sticks of ice and could keep the frozen food frozen for longer should the power be off. Only if there is enough room of course, also when our power goes out I can quickly transfer one or two to the fridge in an attempt to keep the fridge chilled untill the power is back on. It's just a thought..

I did that when our fridge broke and I couldn't replace it for over a week. I filled 2 pop bottles with water, froze them and put them in the fridge to keep the food chilled, while they were in the fridge I had another 2 freezing in the freezer. It wasn't as good as a working fridge but it was quite effective.

fluffymuffin123

Auguk I agree, it's only a desperate measure but i'm sure it would be ok in the short term and until the power is back on, if there was a power cut. We are clever old sticks :T