Preparing for winter II

bluebag

drinkupretty wrote: »

I have been reading this thread for tips as our boiler is gone and as OH has just lost his job we cannot afford to replace any time soon.

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Just a few thoughts that may help you, the threshold thingy for the back door, some shaped wooden archetrading (spelling??) can be applied with no more nails type glue to the outside of the door and painted with any old gloss paint. While it won't last forever it is cheap and may last a few winters.

You can make foil and cardboard heat catchers to go in the sunny windows. take a large piece of card and cover one side with foil and the other with a black bin bag put in the window with the foil facing into the room, it won't heat the room but will raise the temperature a degree or two is free to run and cost pennies to make.

A thermostatically controlled oil filled radiator can be reasonable to run and the small ones are cheap to buy less than £25 in poundstretcher, B&M or Wilkies type shops and will warm a small bedroom or make a large one less arctic.

Rummer

Spent some time getting the garden organized for the winter, weeding and cutting things back and removing moss from the paths so I do not slip going to the bin in the rain

KazLA

Has anyone bought any echinacea tablets yet? I haven't bought any for the last couple of winters (pregnant/bf) and I'm stuggling to find a decent price, from a known good source. Think I bought from healthy direct, who are now with Health Span, and who my mum has continued buying from, but they don't seem to have anything worth buying. Am also not wanting to high a strengh, as still doing one feed a day, although he's now 14 months, and tablets are available from age 2, so sure it won't be an issue, just don't want the super strength 1000mg+ ones...

Any help would be appreciated!

skintbint_2

well thats the tatties lifted and in cardboard boxes for the winter, beetroot lifted but still to be made into chutney, parsley dried and in jars, need to get the rhubard pulled and made into jam or frozen. really beginning to feel inadequate as have no stock of loo roll!!!!!!!! but will get that seen to this week, i buy the tesco stuff at £1.99 for 9 rolls - quilted and doesnt disintegrate! busy week ahead so wont get much else done this week.

skintbint_2

KazLA wrote: »

Has anyone bought any echinacea tablets yet? I haven't bought any for the last couple of winters (pregnant/bf) and I'm stuggling to find a decent price, from a known good source. Think I bought from healthy direct, who are now with Health Span, and who my mum has continued buying from, but they don't seem to have anything worth buying. Am also not wanting to high a strengh, as still doing one feed a day, although he's now 14 months, and tablets are available from age 2, so sure it won't be an issue, just don't want the super strength 1000mg+ ones...

Any help would be appreciated!

Kazla - please be careful with the echinacea if you are still breast feeding as there is a belief that they can cause liver damage - my couins daughter ended up having to have tests and the consultant commented he had been seeing more and more people due to what they believed was the increased use of echinacea

D&DD

re runny jams etc I usually just chuck them in the bottom of a steamed sponge they won't go to waste

OH has the week off and we have to go look for a new car so I've agreed to go with him *only 'cos there's a Lakelands in the same high street shhhh* :A

I need to get the rest of the garden harvested and replanted out for the winter there is sooo much to get in and preserve,I'm not complaining but my kitchen looks like Beirut :rotfl:

Boys go back to school tomorrow and Tues so winter preps will start in earnest this week.

slm6002

just a little success - OH thought about hanging curtains today on back door and kitchen windows! Only thought but thats more progress than i have managed so far.

Also i noticed some mold just above bedroom windows when shutting curtains this evening - is this because i havent been opening windows often enough to vent rooms and damp being caused. We had new windows about 3 years ago and never noticed a problem before.

slm6002

oh and i have plenty of loo roll bought on offer from lidl the other day so thats hidden from kids

KazLA

skintbint wrote: »

Kazla - please be careful with the echinacea if you are still breast feeding as there is a belief that they can cause liver damage - my couins daughter ended up having to have tests and the consultant commented he had been seeing more and more people due to what they believed was the increased use of echinacea

Thank you so much for that, def isn't worth the risk then. Now, do I carry on that feed so his immune system is hopefully boosted, or stop so I can boost mine (seem to come down with one thing after another through winter )

skintbint_2

try rosehip syrup to boost your vitamin c and you can give the wee one it as a juice to help boost his immune system

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/oct/21/recipes.dessert

and/or a spoonful of malt and cod liver oil - the old fashioned ones are the best!!!!