Preparing for winter II

candie_gill

Done a big asda shop today, ordered about 8 packs of cough sweets, olbas oil, olbas plug in for lO, 56 toilet tolls, 16 tins of beans (asda got the offer on packs of 4 branston for £1 atm), 2 more fleece blankets, 2 bags of dish washer salt for paths, lots of boxes of choc for xmas, 70 wash boxpersil non bio for £9, olbas vapour release tissues, 2 boxes of tea bags, plenty of diff meats for the freezer aswell as my unsual monthly stock up. Slowly getting there, wont be buying a snow shovel as they are plastic and cant see them breakingthrough the compacted snow so will use the trusted garden spade!

Will update tomorrow a full list of my preperations so far

Confuzzled

Reverbe wrote: »

Thanks folks. I keep being told to use a keyboard install disk .. will have to find where the character map is..

found this thought it might be helpful

http://www.nouilles.info/keyboard_shortcuts.html

Alt+0163 is shortcut for the £ sign i'm assuming you don't have windows 7? if you do you can simply find the character map by typing in character for search, comes right up.

kmiller4

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Triggles wrote: »

Kathy - another late "welcome" to you! I'm from the states originally, having grown up a fair number of years in Minnesota (or as locally known there Minne-snow-ta :rotfl:) as well as a few years in (Down East) Maine, by the Canadian border. Having lived within a easy drive's distance from an LL Bean store, I can say that I do miss them. I haven't actually tried to order stuff here in the UK from them though.

Triggles-- are you American then? By birth? or did you just live over here for a bit? So you understand how the snow is here them.

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rising_from_the_ashes

candie_gill wrote: »

wont be buying a snow shovel as they are plastic and cant see them breakingthrough the compacted snow so will use the trusted garden spade!

Just got this one from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-GT30-Square-Mouth-Shovel/dp/B000LFU08Q/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2 - metal head and not too heavy. I've struggled with the garden space for the past couple of years for the same reasons as you but it was just overwhelmed with the volume of snow last year!

Rainy-Days

Tonight popped out to Dunelm and picked up four balls of Aran wool whihc will go beautifully with a red bag I have bought from Next. I am going to knit it into a scarf for me. First time in 17 years I will have knitted something but I am giving it a go Dunelm also have fleeces in the sale as well including some really nice one for children polka dots they are gorgeous!

I also bought the Comma extreme screen wash that one that goes down to -65 degrees. The Focus - my car - is always in the garage when it is not being driven but the Land Rover does sit on the driveway and we had a problem last year that the screen wash kept freezing so this will solve the roblem

Thanks to all who recommended it - you lot are costing me a little more but we will be absolutely prepared out this year more so than ever, from last year :T also we are looking at winter tyres on the Land Rover but we are keeping an eye on that!

rising_from_the_ashes

Reverbe wrote: »

Thanks folks. I keep being told to use a keyboard install disk .. will have to find where the character map is..

This may work until you get it fixed ....

Go into word and insert, symbol and choose the £ sign.

Set up a macro (used to be tools / macro in the "old" word but under view / macro in 2007+) and assign it to a key on your keyboard (obviously something that you don't use often, maybe something like ~).

Prudent

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Read this and the comments section the last but one is a person from Galsgow who has summed it up well, they believe we are in for a harsh winter and with the early Autumn they believe it is the trees shutting down and conserving stock/sugar to help them get through a nasty winter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028545/Autumn-comes-early-Leaves-changing-colour-thanks-hot-dry-Spring.html

I went back to work today after the summer break. We went on a tour round the building to look at imrpovement which had been made to the outside area. I was surprised at how many of the trees were turning colour.

Confuzzled

Prudent wrote: »

I went back to work today after the summer break. We went on a tour round the building to look at imrpovement which had been made to the outside area. I was surprised at how many of the trees were turning colour.

a few weeks ago when i was in town i saw piles of leaves in the council car park from the birch trees there, and plenty of yellow and brownish ones on the trees already, i'm only in fife too it's not like i'm quite far north :eek:

Thriftkitten

Confuzzled wrote: »

there isn't a £ sign on an american keyboard, sorry! you can use character map, learn the shortcut etc until you can figure out how to fix it

Hi I have a Laptop from the states and if I hold down the shift key and my number 3/hash sign it produces a £ sign, lol took me ages to figure it out!

abwsco

Some of my chickens have started moulting whereas it's normally anytime from end of October when mine usually start.