Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I felt unable to warm up this morning; I put two pairs of socks on and that seems to have helped.
I've also bought a box of www.littlehottieswarmers.com for extra warmth.

I'd be too scared to use them: http://www.littlehottieswarmers.com/precautions.aspx

PasturesNew

2 degrees here at the moment, so above freezing. No heating on in my room though, so nippy as f00k.

lostinrates

Twas too cold for them. Now back,I'm freezing. I think its hormones or something. Even though its warmer and less windy I don't wanna go outside again now

elona

DH had to dig a path through the snow this morning so DD could drive to work.
She is determined to get there so she can hand in a weeks notice.

The job she is doing is a temp one and she is not very happy as she hoped for proper training etc.

She heard last week from a place she applied to six months ago before she graduated - went for a set of verbal and numerical tests - then got an interview on Wednesday this week- they phoned back the next day and want her to start on 20th December :j

She is so pleased as it is a properly defined job with a proper training and induction scheme , it even has pension and health benefits etc.

We have had an "interesting" year. DH retir- er "worked from home" since January, family home finally sold in May, moved all of us into borrowed house for three months, then bought "forever house" in September.

DD(21) graduated in June and got temp job in August , passed her driving test and got a car.

Her 25 year old sister started a new job the month before after looking for a year for somewhere that appreciated talent and hard work and is doing well.(fingers crossed).

Just hope we can get last minute jobs done on house by Christmas and finally relax.

DH pointed out the deep snow outside had frozen more overernight and was too treacherous for me so on laptop in the warm.

silvercar

I've been sprinkling Tesco value salt on the driveway

Bought a new car last month and realised the dealer filled the windscreen screenwash with water. Obviously it froze, but its frozen full, so I can't empty it out to add proper screenwash, can't pump it through to top it up because it is frozen. Money saving by the dealer, but after spending ££££ with them, I'd have thought they could run to a bottle of screenwash.

PasturesNew

There are some little water testers in Lidl this week - like a pipette, you shove it in the radiator and squeeze it, extract some liquid and it tells you if you've enough anti freeze in. Only just remembered, meant to get one. 99p.

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/index_15858.htm

Silvercar2

silvercar wrote: »

I felt unable to warm up this morning; I put two pairs of socks on and that seems to have helped.
I've also bought a box of [for extra warmth.

Can I ask are you a silverbug?

silvercar

Silvercar2 wrote: »

Can I ask are you a silverbug?

I dunno. What's a silverbug?

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

I've been sprinkling Tesco value salt on the driveway

Bought a new car last month and realised the dealer filled the windscreen screenwash with water. Obviously it froze, but its frozen full, so I can't empty it out to add proper screenwash, can't pump it through to top it up because it is frozen. Money saving by the dealer, but after spending ££££ with them, I'd have thought they could run to a bottle of screenwash.

I'd complain - most PDIs require them to top up with screenwash, not water. Was it a main dealer?

PasturesNew

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