Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Lemon_Tree

just wondering if i can test your ingenuity please.

I'd like to get a 'water bottle insulator snug' for my animals water bottles but i can only find them for the 'cheap' price of £7.99 or more. Now i love my animals but as i have two/three bottles to cover i'm not prepared to spend this money. Does anyone have any ideas of what i can use. Last couple of years i've used old socks but they never really do the job properly and the bottle still freezes.

boredofbeingathome

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

just wondering if i can test your ingenuity please.

I'd like to get a 'water bottle insulator snug' for my animals water bottles but i can only find them for the 'cheap' price of £7.99 or more. Now i love my animals but as i have two/three bottles to cover i'm not prepared to spend this money. Does anyone have any ideas of what i can use. Last couple of years i've used old socks but they never really do the job properly and the bottle still freezes.

A large tube of pipe lagging stuff- i used to fit that over my rabbits water bottles and it works a treat. Sometimes i wrapped bubble wrap around the outside as well.

Lemon_Tree

i KNEW someone would have a wonderful solution to the problem! will toddle off to find some pipe lagging stuff tomorrow

MatyMoo

Yipppeeeee, Pippi's back :j:j:j

You have been gone for days and days and days* and I have missed your wonderful ramblings so welcome back :T

* Waddya mean it's only been 24 hours? It feels like forever

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urg123

Woo hoo! Happy new diary! 'subscribes' will do my best to pop in more often.

Just back from friend's party - ended up cooking a curry as caterer let her down. Was fun and curry went down well! Better head to bed!

Waving

Urg x x

chevalier

hi Pippi
happy new diary. i too have faith that things will turn up to help you out when you need them. go for it.
chev

Karmacat

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

A large tube of pipe lagging stuff- i used to fit that over my rabbits water bottles and it works a treat. Sometimes i wrapped bubble wrap around the outside as well.

Thats exactly what I was going to say the other thing I use for stuff is an old sleeping mat from the days when I went rough camping - this was a tip from pandapaws, if you remember her. Those mats are made of neoprene, and I cut a piece off one to use as a kneeler, but they're great insulators as well. The pipe lagging Bob's suggested tho, is ready shaped :j

Pippilongstocking

I always think of mse as a 'one stop shop' for life LT I wouldn't have had a clue about the bottles -- but brilliant solutions up there!

Good morning all lovely to see your lovely faces on here - thank you for the good luck we'll need it!

gorgeous sunny day in the snowy isle of stripes.

Done the hens kettle on - contemplating porridge..........................then I have to get out and have a word with the hens - I want to let them roam about in the new field - but they need to make sure they don't wander off - however, I'm not sure they'll listen and the fence out there is only designed for cows - so they'll just walk through it - no way of changing it - I need to learn to let go and trust them DD tells me - lol - when she's running about with me later trying to round up random silly hens I hope she remembers that statement!

chevalier

love the idea of talking to the hens and making sure they know not to stray. that is so funny. bless. glad to hear you have a bit of sun, we were toasting nicely here today.
chev

Karmacat

Toasting ... nice, I've forgotten what that is! I like the idea of chatting with the hens too - would they ever get as far as a road with traffic, as opposed to your track? If you wag your finger at them, will they try to peck it?