Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

kezlou

Its still snowing here!!

Totally crazy, went out the back and found a two foot icile haning off the extension:eek:.

Well the cars in the garage, no idea how much its going to cost, as apparently the tensioners might need replacing as wll cecking he cam belt and changing the alternator belt. Luckily we did the monthly shop yesterday so should have enough flour / store cupboard to last a month. Will just need to top up milk, cheese and fresh fruit / veg. So looks like another tough month again.
Just hoping its not too expensive.

The school fair went well, coddy (DS1) did a cracking job and made loads of money for the school. Snips won loads of sweets so he promptly shared half with coddy when we came back from school.

But on the plus side £20 worth of vouchers turned up so i ordered coddy's xmas present off amazon. Just added £14 odd to it, so hopefully that will arrive next week. Have another £10 amazon voucher turn up about 5 mins ago so will order another pressie with that:D. I know its sounds silly but these vouchers have really helped us out. So i will definitely carry on doing these next year, so hopefully will have saved a fair bit ready for next chistmas.

Well i'm off to bed, totally shattered.

Rosanna79

Hello everyone, I'm up disgustingly late and have been catching up. So sorry to hear of those having plumbing problems and dud workmen, That's the last thing you need.

This weekend we were due to travel down south to se our relatives and friends and distribute Christmas presents. That had to be postponed for a further fortnight and on the BBC news this evening we heard this may last into the New Year:eek::eek::eek:
I HATE winter , loathe, detest and also hate snow!!! So you'll have gathered I'm not a very happy bunny.

From reading the posts of the last few days I think Charlies-aunt lives in my region. That the Tesco in my town...
As I already struggle with Christmas , remembering my dead family etc I try to keep very very busy and am out on every possible occasion for at least part of each day.

Now we're faced with EVERYTHING planned to help get through this season being systematically cancelled. There has only been ONE BUS in the WHOLE TOWN running- our local service but we don't really want to go anywhere with everything cancelled. We've had no post since Tuesday and now I hear folk in villages are gettting post... If we're in for it until the New Year does that mean we're not going to get any deliveries?!!!!

Even the flipping cat is depressed with so much snow!! She keeps going to the kitchen door, wanting to get out and sits there with her tail twitching. I've tried carrying her for a short walk to give the poor little thing a change of scene and she's clinging onto me for dear life meowing her head off. She detests litter trays and is only mollified by having her Cat Super loo brought indoors and getting as much sweet stuff as she can snaffle off us. Trouble is it's me who has to clean her teeth- vetinary nurse's idea - OH gets all the fun - I get all the nasty bits to do and the moggy spitting!!

Thankfully all this WEATHER has made people very helpful. my young neighbour across the road and her two lovely children have been clearing our drive as well as thrier own each moring since I was struggling the first morning. They're a lovely family, kids' schools closed so they're out pulling together as a team. She's an:A

I'd bought some lovely chunky, variegated wool to knit OH a sweater as a surprise. He'd got a bit bigger from measuring his chest size so when I presented him with the finished garment the other day it was rather oversized it turned out. However it's so cold he put it on over his other sweater and is really pleased with it. He calls it his snow sweater and as well as being able to step out to the garage in it he's wearing it around the house so we can keep the heating down on low for a fair bit of the day. Dreading the massive fuel bills but it's essential to keep warm as we're older and I'm arthritic.

It's a standing joke among my friends that you'll never starve at my house as I always keep two freezers full and a storecupboard. No idea why i've always been like that- could never understand anyone waiting until stuff had completely run out before shopping....

On Monday decided to go to Mr. M and get another 12.5 kg sack of potatoes. Know I can get bigger and cheaper at the farm shop if I travel out to it but can't physically manage anything bigger when I get back home and OH is also having to watch his back these days with lifting.

He's a real night owl and I'm much more of a lark. He's incredibly organised and well over 20 years ago devised a preprinted shopping list we tick off each week. So I asked him to do this on Tuesday evening. Knowing his current medical problem with walking and the impossibility of safely driving the car in these conditions I was up, dressed in all my walking gear , including knee braces and two walking poles by 9:15 am Wednesday with my big rucksack as I set off for Aldi at the end of our road. I managed to get the bulk of our requirements although I did need to carry a couple of bags as well as the rucksack so only had effective use of one walking pole on my return trip. However it's only normally a 5 minute walk so wasn't too bad.

OH was a bit put out to find the shopping done, put away and my digging a path to our garage and compost bin already done when he got up!! My lovely neighbour was helping me with the front and the feeling of community in such conditions is great.

As I said I MUST keep busy so yesterday we both went up our local high st. OH rejected our neighbour's offer of a sledge to collect the remaining shopping and took the trolley. He kept wanting to go back and dig out his car but thankfully didn't- I was used to driving for a living in all weathers but nothing this bad so we made it to the high street. I bumped into a member of my monthly writing group who hearing it had been cancelled for December said we should all reconvene at our local coffee shop regardless which as it's do-able means at least I'll be seeing some of my mates.

Getting out and walking with all the gear each day despite the hard going does help pass the time . I've now managed to acquire two lots of wool for a further two sweaters for OH - so if it's in 'til the New Year I won't be idle!

I'm now thinking what other hard going trips I can manage on foot Mr M perhaps - that's 2 miles return but as it's that or a 112 lengths of my passage to keep the weight down I think I'll keep walking. Well wrapped up and brilliant sunshine does seem to lift one's mood despite the cold.

Just glad to be have clawed back my mobility so much after the way I was a year ago. Anything else is a bonus.:)

Rosanna79

Hello everyone, I'm up disgustingly late and have been catching up. So sorry to hear of those having plumbing problems and dud workmen, That's the last thing you need.

This weekend we were due to travel down south to se our relatives and friends and distribute Christmas presents. That had to be postponed for a further fortnight and on the BBC news this evening we heard this may last into the New Year:eek::eek::eek:
I HATE winter , loathe, detest and also hate snow!!! So you'll have gathered I'm not a very happy bunny.

From reading the posts of the last few days I think Charlies-aunt lives in my region. That the Tesco in my town...
As I already struggle with Christmas , remembering my dead family etc I try to keep very very busy and am out on every possible occasion for at least part of each day.

Now we're faced with EVERYTHING planned to help through this season being systematically cancelled. There has only been ONE BUS in the WHOLE TOWN running- our local service but we don't really want to go anywhere with everything cancelled. We've had no post since Tuesday and now I hear folk in villages are gettting post... If we're in for it until the New Year does that mean we're not going to get any deliveries?!!!!

Even the flipping cat is depressed with so much snow!! She keeps going to the kitchen door, wanting to get out and sits there with her tail twitching. I've tried carrying her for a short walk to give the poor little thing a change of scene and she's clinging onto me for dear life meowing her head off. She detests litter trays and is only mollified by having her Cat Super loo brought indoors and getting as much sweet stuff as she can snaffle off us. Trouble is it's me who has to clean her teeth- vetinary nurse's idea - OH gets all the fun - I get all the nasty bits to do and the moggy spitting!!

Thankfully all this WEATHER has made people very helpful. my young neighbour across the road and her two lovely children have been clearing our drive as well as thrier own each moring since I was struggling the first morning. They're a lovely family, kids' schools closed so they're out pulling together as a team. She's an:A

I'd bought some lovely chunky, variegated wool to knit OH a sweater as a surprise. He'd got a bit bigger from measuring his chest size so when I presented him with the finished garment the other day it was rather oversized it turned out. Howevr it's so cold he put it onover his other sweate and is really pleased with it. He calls it his snow sweater and as well as being able to step out to the garage in it he's wearing it around the house so we casn keep the heating down on low for a fair bit of the day. Dreading the massive fuel bills but it's essential to keep warm as we're older and I'm arthritic.

It's a standing joke among my friends that you'll never starve at my house as I always keep two freezers full and a storecupboard. No idea why i've always been like that- could never understand anyone waiting until stuff had completely run out before shopping....

On Monday decided to go to Mr. M and get another 12.5 kg sack of potatoes. Know I can get bigger and cheaper at the farm shop if I travel out to it but can't physically manage anything bigger when I get back home and OH is also having to watch his back these days with lifting.

He's a real night owl and I'm much more of a lark. He's incredibly organised and well over 20 years ago devised a preprinted shopping list we tick off each week. So I asked him to do this on Tuesday evening. Knowing his current medical problem with walking and the impossibility of safely driving the car in these conditions I was up, dressed in all my walking gear , including knee braces and two walking poles by 9:15 am Wednesday with my big rucksack as I set off for Aldi at the end of our road. I managed to get the bulk of our requirements although I did need to carry a couple of bags as well as the rucksack so only has effective use of one walking pole on my return trip. However it's only normally a 5 minute walk so wasn't too bad.

OH was a bit put out to find the shopping done, put away and my digging a path to our garage and compost bin already done when he got up!! My lovely neighbour was helping me with the front and the feeling of community in such conditions is great.

As I said I MUST keep busy so yesterday we both went up our local high st. OH rejected our neighbour's offer of a sledge to collect the remaining shopping and took the trolley. He kept wanting to go back and dig out his car but thankfully didn't- I was used to driving for a living in all weather sbut nothing this bad so we made it to the high street. I bumped into a member of my monthly writing group who hearing it had been cancelled for December said we should all reconvene at our local coffee shop regardless which as it's do-able means at least I'll be seeing some of my mates.

Getting out and walking with all the gear each day despite the hard going does help pass the time . I've now managed to acquire two lots of wool for a further two sweaters for OH - so if it's in 'til the New Year I won't be idle!

I'm now thinking what other hard going trips I can manage on foot Mr M perhaps - that's 2 miles return but as it's that or a 112 lengths of my passage to keep the weight down I think I'll keep walking. Well wrapped up and brilliant sunshine does seem to lift one's mood despite the cold

just glad to be have clawed back my mobility so much after the way i was a year ago. Anything else is a bonus...

Rosanna79

Sorry guys must have clicked twice probs with internet tonight

rachbc

Charis wrote: »

He wasn't specific about what the opinions were on this website (or the Mori polls, or Ipsos or a couple of others he quoted). There were some good arguments, both for and against, today. An MP from Northern Ireland was keen to make sure that all the counter arguments were listened to and that the change wasn't just railroaded through. There was a young Scottish MP who seemed to think it was clever to be flippant but he got short shrift from one of the older members. Mention was made of both our own aborted attempt at permanent summer time in 1968-71 and Portugal's more recent aborted attempt. One of the reasons they gave up was because it's nigh on impossible to get children to sleep when it's still light at 11pm and their school work was suffering. One of our Government's ministers spent a long time today listing the drawbacks to the proposals.

One thing the supporters keep saying is that it doesn't matter that children will be going to school in the dark as they will then not be coming home in the dark. Since they start at nine and go home at three-ish these days (not four like we used to in the olden days :rotfl:) they currently mostly do both journeys in the light, unless they travel to a school some distance away. There's some deception going on I fear. I can't see any mention of today's discussion on the BBC news site except this although I can see an assortment of the usual headline grabbing nonsense.

My kids sleep better in the summer as they've generally been out all day playing - they are in bed and asleep whilst its light in the current BST so I'm not sure why it being light an hour longer while they are sleeping is a problem...

Persoanlly I'm all in favour - I can cope with getting up in the dark - its the lack of evening light that depresses me in the winter

Thriftkitten

It's tough but it will get better.... lets bl**dy hope so!!
my female pug dog was rushed to the vets yesterday as I suspected a Pyometria, I have experienced this before last with my other pug,
was told by a local vet(not my usual vet) that it was not a pyometria as she was not 6 weeks past her season, gave antibiotic injections and a few others and sent me away £100 lighter.
This didn't sit right with me and kept bugging me as I was sure it was Pyometria, which can kill the dog in a matter of days.
Reason for not visiting my usual vet 8 miles away was because we were snowed in at top of our hill, anyway I telephoned my vet and was crying because I was so worried and explained to him that I simply did not have the £500 that I KNEW it would cost if it was infact Pyometria, he reassured me that he would most definately give me a payment plan but to get her there the next morning.... Yesterday morning she had a major operation to remove her womb and all the infection, which the vet said was huge, he was very angry that the other vet was so negligent as he said we would of lost her within the coming couple of days, also he said Pyometria can show anywhere up to 60 days after season of an unspayed female.
Our litle darling pug is now curled up in the snuggliest cage fast asleep and feeling very poorly, but Im sure will be fine in a week or so, bless her.
Xmas is officially cancelled as Im totally cleaned out having to pay half upfront, so thrify is a total understatement here,I will have to do some major bill juggling. 2 out of 3 days off work last week due to schol closures so £30 wages for me next week Grrrrrr!!!
Am feeling rather down in the dumps as this couldn't of come as a worse time, it's my birthday today and I'm dreading opening my card from my mum as I know that she will of stuck a small fortune in the card, to help out, makes me feel guilty and inadequate all rolled into one, but is much appreciated...... when will things get better!!!!!
PS, Just opened my birthday card and my mum enclosed my usual £20, so Im feeling rather adequate if not skint hahahaha!!!

ceridwen

Rosanna79 wrote: »

It's a standing joke among my friends that you'll never starve at my house as I always keep two freezers full and a storecupboard. No idea why i've always been like that- could never understand anyone waiting until stuff had completely run out before shopping....

Maybe you're another one who has a mother who had to live through/got really UPSET by World War 2???

When this is the background one grows up in - and you've seen your mother ensuring she always has enough food in - then you stop and think about whether to do so yourself as an adult. I certainly did - and saw all the reasons why its a good idea to make sure one is always well stocked-up and make sure I am.

Mind you - you've probably also got the "pre-programming" I have for the "latter days" in ones life. I already know I'm going to be giving away possessions right left and centre and generally giving my house a good clearout - I've only got to watch my mother doing it to know that:rotfl: (having duly thought that one through myself and decided it will make sense to do so...).
(megawd - am I even going to FIND anyone who wants 24 shelves of reference books?........LOL)

catznine

The snow is starting to melt a bit here, no more icicles hanging off the conservatory threatening little dog whenever she wants to go outside!

DH dropped DD off at the station early this morning and the trains are running! So we are slowly getting back to some kind of normal. It was lovely to see our little whirlwind DD but now we must stand on our own 2 (4) feet and tidy up and cope. DH still ill (feeling sick and achey) and behind me by a couple of days. Rotten virus, I have pulled a muscle coughing so much, so now it hurts even more!

Anyway just wanted to say that although we were well stocked up with "normal cook from scratch food" I hadn't factored in being snowed in while poorly, the last thing I felt like was cooking, couldn't even face eating for a while. Luckily had a good supply of Approved foods cuppa soups! Also had enough medicine for one of us to be ill but with 2 of us it went quickly. So to sum up I must make sure I have a few appetising ready to go meals in the freezer and a better stock of cold/flu type meds.

Well sooner or later I must face the ever growing ironing pile, even if I just do a couple of bits for now! (((hugs))) to all who need them!

Catz x

Hardup_Hester

I haven't done an exact count so far this year, but last year when we were snowed in hubby asked if I needed him to walk to the nearest supermarket 3 miles away. I went and did a full audit of the freezer & had enough supplies to make 31 meals. He doesn't moan about my kitchen being so full anymore.

ceridwen

Morning Hester

Have you been and had your wedding yet? Any piccies if so? - and hows that raised bed hubbie made doing - producing lots of food?