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

pennywisepoundstupid

Just wanted to say i'm thinking of you and your family Frugal, sending you big hugs.

natlie

v1ckyt wrote: »

Years later she confessed dad had come across a car that had hit and killed a deer outright, so had bought it home, hung and butchered it from my swing frame.

v1ckyt wrote: »

A friend of mine served up a roadkill buffet years ago it included badger - Im so glad Im a veggie,the kitchen in the office in work used to stink and it was always something he had brought back with him. Another friend of mine saw a duck getting hit by a car and went back to pick it up.

Nat
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ceridwen

SAMMY

Nice of you to go looking out for that old lady.

Re her sleeping on a camp bed in her sitting room - personally I can only sleep in a cool bedroom (that being what I got used to as a child) and so my bedroom is the one room in the house that I dont heat at all. I just get changed at each end of the night in a room that I DO heat - so as not to freeze my bits off in the process.

I find that - as long as the bed has plenty of bedding and I warm it up to start with with a few blasts from a hairdryer (if a particularly icy night - then I also take a hotwater bottle or two to bed with me) then its no problem. If things are REALLY REALLY cold and I've got a bit chilled then I've been known to put on a nightdress and pair of fluffy bedsocks as well.

So maybe a possible checklist for her would be:
- warm fleece/thin duvet or something to go underneath bottom sheet of bed (amazing just how much difference that makes - rather than just having the bottom sheet straight onto the mattress IYSWIM)

- plenty of bedding to go on top of her

- spare hairdryer to keep plugged in at side of bed

- couple of warm nighties

- couple of pairs of warm fleecy socks (I've been astonished at just how dear they often seem to be - but there are cheap ones in Tesc* sometimes - a pack of them for less than a tenner).

- couple of hotwater bottles with warm fleecy covers

With a combination of these things - then she should be fine for sleeping in her own bed in the bedroom. Its just a question of changing in and out of nightwear in the sitting room - so as not to freeze those bits off in the process.

So - if you were able to organise some sorta whip-round to make sure she has these items and then tell her to think of it as an early Christmas present....

seasalt_2

Also adding my best wishes for Frugal and Katholicos and their Dads. Hope the news is better this morning, Frugal.

sammy_kaye18

ceridwen wrote: »

- couple of pairs of warm fleecy socks (I've been astonished at just how dear they often seem to be - but there are cheap ones in Tesc* sometimes - a pack of them for less than a tenner).

- couple of hotwater bottles with warm fleecy covers

I have some fleecey bed socks - I cant wear them at night and I have fleecy slipper socks for in the day so may go and drop those round to her later.

Also I know a covered hot water bottle us reduced in town as I brought two for Ben and holly. they were £2.49 down to £1. so maybe I'll pick her up one later too when Owen goes to drop his other son home. I know its a £1 of my own money and we aren't exactly flush but I see that as a worthy investment if its helping one of the village elders

ceridwen

natlie wrote: »

A friend of mine served up a roadkill buffet years ago it included badger - Im so glad Im a veggie,the kitchen in the office in work used to stink and it was always something he had brought back with him. Another friend of mine saw a duck getting hit by a car and went back to pick it up.

Nat
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Yuk! I have to say, in principle, waste not want not and why pass up on good food from an animal you know was a "happy animal" (ie as it was running wild) - but I couldnt bring myself to prepare any meat either - so would have to leave it for the next person on the scene to have....

One comment on your friend going back to get the duck - just for info. he was in the clear on this, but the driver who actually hit the duck wouldnt have been. The law being that the driver whose car hits the animal cant have it - but another driver can (reason being I guess so that people don't deliberately set out to have "accidents on purpose" and kill an animal deliberately). Obviously a subsequent driver couldnt possibly have had an "accident on purpose" - so they're in the clear to take the animal. Even though I'm vegetarian - as the subsequent driver I would have taken the duck in those circumstances if I were able to prepare an animal without "heaving"....._pale_:silenced:

ceridwen

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

I have some fleecey bed socks - I cant wear them at night and I have fleecy slipper socks for in the day so may go and drop those round to her later.

Also I know a covered hot water bottle us reduced in town as I brought two for Ben and holly. they were £2.49 down to £1. so maybe I'll pick her up one later too when Owen goes to drop his other son home. I know its a £1 of my own money and we aren't exactly flush but I see that as a worthy investment if its helping one of the village elders

AWWWW! Thats very thoughtful/kind of you Sammy - when we know you are literally counting the pennies yourself.:D

elf06

ceridwen wrote: »

SAMMY

Nice of you to go looking out for that old lady.

Re her sleeping on a camp bed in her sitting room - personally I can only sleep in a cool bedroom (that being what I got used to as a child) and so my bedroom is the one room in the house that I dont heat at all. I just get changed at each end of the night in a room that I DO heat - so as not to freeze my bits off in the process.


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This is similar to myself. I dont recall having a cold room as a child however I just cannot sleep if its too warm. My bedroom has NO heater and I have onlyjust closed the window recently. I dont have an electric blanket or a hot water bottle (although DS has one of those wheat filled micro kinds) but I do have an old duvet under my sheets. Last winter when it was exceptionally bad I slept with a microfibre blanket under my duvet and a couple of times put socks on. At times it wasnt easy (when we had weeks and weeks of minus temps) but had no choice (due to the lack of heater )but I made sure DS was comfortable in his room and often put his heater on for about half an hour before he went to bed to take the chill off.

With regards to this older lady - your concern is lovely Sammy and I think its a great idea to see if she can be helped. If it isnt possible then I think Ceridwen's list is the way to go

lovelife_3

Big hugs to Frugal and Katholicos, i have been there too. I really feel for you both xxxxx

parsonswife8

Mrs_Veg_Plot wrote: »

parsonswife8
Are you an "Innocent" veg pot, like the smoothies?

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I'm as innocent as death by chocolate :whistle::whistle:[/QUOTE]


So sorry, having had one and a half eyes on the telly and only half an eye on the computer, I mistakenly read your user name as veg pot instead of veg plot.
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And it was quite dark here at the time.......that's my story and i'm sticking to it.
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