Preparing for winter II

Sylvan

Thanks Annie.

I know how she feels. We oldies have to keep our blood sugar levels up.

Confuzzled

mardatha wrote: »

I'm in the south of Scotland, but I'm high up. God knows what its like further north :eek:

i'm further north than you mardatha but we don't have nearly as much snow. we're only 6 miles from st andrews (and thus the sea which i think tempers our weather a bit) and we're in a valley so while some settles here a lot is probably blowing right over the top of us

i can just imagine edinburgh right now. the first winter after we'd moved to edinburgh, about 6 years ago now there was snow like this. my ex an i took my daughter then 3 sledging on the bottom slopes of arthurs seat right by pollock halls of residence. it was so deep she HAD to walk in our footsteps because it was about chest high for her and she has always been very tall for her age!

that particular area of edinburgh has a lot of wind tunnels, in fact anyone that has ever spent any time near the uni library will be able to contest to that fact! there were also horrid ones on the way to her school there brrrrr

saying that though, i'd love to be able to live there again... i just can't wait to be able to freeze my backside off standing on north bridge for the hogmanay festival again! the last year we went it was bitterly bitterly cold and windy so people just huddled in together, all strangers but friendly and at least a little sensible despite the general drunkeness

Confuzzled

Red_Doe wrote: »

Brass monkeys! Minus 20 last night and set to be colder tonight.

i just read that aloud to my 9 year old and she excitedly exlaimed 'Crikey that IS cold, the penguins will def be knocking on their door to get in' :rotfl:

mardatha

I think Edinburgh is very draughty and that makes it colder. I only go up there to visit my son now, so thats just in the car and into the house. I miss wandering around..
I was born in Craigtoun St Andrews

Confuzzled

sb44 wrote: »

I guess that would be where the sun don't shine!

i guess THAT would be most of scotland right now :rotfl:

termie

Hi this is last friday so it's a little worse now, it's snowed everyday since last wednesday but it has been lighter the last few days :T

Confuzzled

i asked this earlier today but i think it got swallowed up by my long post so i'll ask again...

which type of small space heater is generally cheaper to run? i think i might get for taking the edge off since i had storage heaters, gets cold with weather like this long before they kick in

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confuzzled you will get a good answer on the electricity thread

Red_Doe

Sylvan wrote: »

:eek: Are you high up?

Yup, we are part of the John Muir Trust Estate and pretty high among hills and mountains. Pretty deep snow here, but really it`s the cold that`s the killer

Red_Doe

I think there`s an east.north west divide with the snow..looking at the map, it seems to have hit worst along the east coast but including us, which is a kinda diagonal swatch of the north west.