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

charlies-aunt

Rosanna79 wrote: »

From reading the posts of the last few days I think Charlies-aunt lives in my region. That the Tesco in my town...
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Rosanna9 - are you in Ashby or S'thorpe? I live just outside Winterton! No buses, milkman or postman all week here as no gritter have been out to us yet so working slowly through the store cupboard.


Thriftkitten - so sorry to hear about your poorly dog - thank goodness you went with your instincts and got a second opinion. Its frightening how quickly things can take a turn for the worst . . . . hope that she will soon be on the road to recovery. With three weeks to go before Christmas, a big vet bill is the last thing anyone needs right now.

grandma247

catznine wrote: »

Poor girl had a very cold awakening this morning as yet again our condensing combi boiler pipes froze up again and stopped the system working. The boiler is in our airing cupboard, upstairs at the back of the house, and the pipes run outside around the house to the side wall. Poor dh, who also has this rotten virus, had to get well wrapped up and climb a ladder with a paint stripper to defrost the pipes! :mad:

Could you ask a neighbour to climb up and wrap some old cloths and plastic around the pipes for this winter. Tall teen boys are very useful for this.We have only just started winter officially so you have a few months of this yet.
I had to wrap our pipes last year when I found a flood on the kitchen worktop from the overflow pipe. The outside of it had frozen so the water was backing up inside. Ours is in the kitchen so I did not need a ladder.

BB1984

Morning everyone, hugs to those that need it.

Well, it's a lot warmer here today (not that I've ventured out yet!). It actually rained overnight, so most of the snow has been washed away. Looks very depressing outside - grass poking through the last of the manky-looking snow, and my snowman is looking very sad! His nose fell off! :rotfl:

My little kitten's op went fine yesterday, brought her home and she was running around like a lunatic straight away as if nothing had happened! The vet said to keep her calm and not let her go too mad....um...have you got a sedative in that case?! She's so stupid - we had a candle lit, and she was fascinated, jumped up and sat right next to it (I was watching closely to make sure she didn't pull it on top of herself). I figured she feel the heat if she got too close, and would back off....WRONG! :eek: Smelt that unmistakable smell of burning hair.....and grabbed her....she's singed her whiskers, the daft thing! They're all frazzled on the ends, and her long eyebrow whiskers are completely gone! Nobody report me to the rspca, please, she's not actually hurt, and I didn't mean for her to get singed....!

I'd love to think she's learnt her lesson, but I doubt it very much so from now on we'll have to put the candles up on a high shelf that she can't easily get to.

Was quite pleased as the vet bill was actually about £50-60 less than we'd thought, so that's great.

Had my hair cut! Looks and feels lovely, I love that "just cut" feel. I have really long and thick hair, so it feels so light and swishy whenever I had it cut. New hairdresser, he was very nice - we had a great old gossip about x-factor etc!

DH has gone into town, he just phoned to say he managed to get the free Austin Reed scarf (voucher in the Daily Telegraph today). Hopefully he'll get a few other pressies whilst he's there, cos I'm not going to have time to get to town between now and xmas.

This afternoon I'm going to my primary school's xmas bazaar - I go every year if I'm home, and it's great, always makes me feel so christmassy It's such a lovely little school, and some of my old teachers are still there and remember me, very sweet.

Going for our sailing club xmas dinner dance tonight, quite expensive but we went last year and it was fun and a nice excuse to get dressed up. Not sure what I'm going to wear yet, but at least my hair looks nice...! :rotfl: I have a couple of possibilities, so I guess I'll go with whichever makes me look least fat....!

BB

Spendless

Tried to go to work Thursday by train, no chance of driving couldn't get car off drive let alone street. Kids school was shut but not problem cos DH working from home. No thru train so would have had to change at town centre, however got there and no trains running to that side of town! No buses either so had to phone office manager and tell her I couldn't get. Am a temp employed thru an agency, so feel quite vulnerable if I don't get in, though I have been there almost 6 months so they know I'm not constantly off.

Will HAVE to go in monday. Fingers crossed kids school back open by then. Need to dig car out of drive this w/end. Then am going to have to make the decison whether to tell kids to go home and hope I can get back for them finishing school and if not they are to let themselves in and be trusted to behave till I get to them or to tell them to make way to my 86yo Grandmothers and trust that she won't walk down to meet them and slip and break her neck on way. Hmmmm which do I trust more kids or nan :think:

Told DD to get dressed yesterday and she put a t-shirt on and then informed me she had very few long sleeved clothes and only 1 cardi. Not sure how I missed that- took her promptly shopping for winter wardrobe.

lora

starsandmoon wrote: »

Jackieglasgow - me and you are tough cos us Liverpool and Glasgow girls are dead hard lol

Ive emailed work and let them know Im going to be off. Got to ring them on Monday. Il be on here a lot then. Hope I dont have to pay for after school club. That would save a few bob.

Il get full pay but think that will all change soon (local authority). Lots of changes happening. The big bosses dont seem to know what they are doing. Horrible atmosphere in work these days.

May I join your club. I am from just north of Glasgow. This has been a terrible terrible year this year--on top of many b----y awful years but I give you all a bit of a laugh. Yesterday my car would not start (needs new battery said AA man-this on top of two new tyres and a road tax ). Anyway unexpected coal delivery arrives (had told me it would be 2-3 weeks). I said would you mind putting bags in garage--so I run around securing indoor cat and then open door from inside--bang--door hits car which is not normally there. You have to laugh,don't you. Which leads to another question. Fire has started belching out the most awful smoke. It was going fine. Chimney swept last year-not used much since then. Another sweep booked for Tuesday. Fire starts fine then yeuch. Tried a fresh bag of coal -no difference. Have a mesh over top as have had two lots of birds coming down the chimney- That is fun trying to catch with a cat looking on.:eek:I guess I have a blockage of some sort?

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I have had enough of this freeze and I want to get back to normal and I want to be on summertime too as the evenings are far too dark and long. There is only so much you can do indoors if there are no children and we are staying off the roads as we don`t need to travel. ds (nintendo) is useful as I find myself playing mindless games from time to time and am now watching saturday kitchen live even though I prefer plain steamed veg. I am turning into a zombie!!
Still, on the upside, we haven`t had any slips or accidents on the ice

I just ordered a tonne of wood pellets doh I thought our stock would last until march but we have had the stove on 17 hours a day, thankfully off at 8.30 today as it is warmer, although I can see ice on the slate outside. The stove does the ch and hot water and the alternative is if we get sun

It was so unseasonably warm right up to the freeze and none of us had time to acclimatise and I think that is why we all felt so cold. Maybe we will cope better during the next few weeks. I am not holding my breath re the weather getting better in january and feb as they are the true winter months.

parsonswife8

Got woken up at 3am by the sound of snow and ice thawing from the roof and beating on the bedroom window sill.

The way out of our close has become solid ice now.

Not had my Tesco wine order which should have been delivered on Tuesday and no post since Tuesday either.

Luckily, we took notice of all the earlier weather warnings and are well stocked up with provisions, bread mix, UHT and skimmed milk powder, frozen fruit and veg etc.

Keep warm folks, We're in for more of the same.
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grandma247

Hugs to those not well or injured.

Nuala I am glad your are feeling a bit better now. I know how you feel, getting our fascia boards done was a farce. we were promised the first people would come twice and twice they did not show. Anyway dh found another person who knew the first but decided it was better not to say too much about them but he did a brilliant job and cleaned up all of the mess afterward. I will be getting him to come again for a couple of other jobs that need doing.

Thriftkitten good thing you listened to your instinct and I hope your little dog makes a speedy recovery. I am fed up with people not doing their job properly.

Catznine I know what you mean about having enough meds in. When I had five of my kids at home I had to buy the largest amount of paracetamol to get us through a bout of flu. In those days you could buy them by the hundreds. This no more than 16 thing is a big pain. I have to buy two boxes every time I shop to make sure we have enough in for four of us now.

The snow is thawing and I can hear a loud dripping on my bay window roof. It means either the gutter needs cleaning or mending.

ceridwen

kittie wrote: »

I have had enough of this freeze and I want to get back to normal and I want to be on summertime too as the evenings are far too dark and long. There is only so much you can do indoors if there are no children and we are staying off the roads as we don`t need to travel. ds (nintendo) is useful as I find myself playing mindless games from time to time and am now watching saturday kitchen live even though I prefer plain steamed veg. I am turning into a zombie!!
Still, on the upside, we haven`t had any slips or accidents on the ice

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Guess the "mindless games" to which you refer are Internet freebie games? Have never even ventured near them - not interested...

Now there is one possibility for MSE'ers going a bit stircrazy indoors - ie playing realworld games with other MSE friends on t'Internet.

Me - I've got precisely one board game - ie "Gift of Enlightenment" - well it had to be one like that for me didnt it?:rotfl: - (thinking to self "Well - Kittie is the sort of person who might just have that one too?" - so if you do Kittie and you're up for trying to play a game via the Internet some time we could give it a go...).

How can you tell its too cold and icy for me to fancy venturing out at all?:rotfl:

mama67

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....
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It is here as well, they all know where to come if they are short of anything, then replace it next time they are out.

This is something my mum did, she was born in 1941 and lived on a small holding miles from the nearest village so knew about having to have enough in.