What has this bad weather taught you?

booter

I've learned that - if I stick to the local shop, I spend less money on groceries and fuel
- wearing wellies doesn't mean you don't slip.
- Ankle length slippers don't look cool, but are really warm
- Stews are really cheap and can be done in many ways with different ingredients
- I love my electric blanket
- I love my ear muffs
- I can still knit!
Probably lots more that I've learned, but can't remember, cos the cold addles my brain - oohh that's another thing I've learned - the cold addles my brain!

arran m - if you want a pattern for socks, PM me (give me a couple of days to dig it out) and I'll see if I can scan and send it you (if I can get to the library scanner!) They're actually quite easy if you know how to reduce/increase (and if you follow a pattern!)

NualaBuala

mary-op wrote: »

After suffering a couple of bad falls in previous bad weather (ice and snow) I hibernate once it starts. OH on the other hand has been soldiering on until Sunday when he slipped on the ice and broke his hip:eek: Surgery not required the hospital say and he's home now and suddenly you find who your friends are...........people offering help of all sorts, collect shopping, arrange to get money from bank if needed, the lad we foster has really come into his own...........cooked for me the two days OH was in hospital and been really helpful..........different boy altogether.
So..........bad weather can bring out the best of some things, the worst of others.
Thank goodness we've got christmas all sorted and enough food to keep us going:) More snow on the way so they say

Mary, that sounds awful - really hope your OH is ok. It's heartening to hear how people have rallied round when you need it and about your foster son.

Lou76

I've learnt that Crohn's + sub zero bathroom temps don't mix (my bathroom sink drain pipe froze, thank Gawd it wasn't the toilet :eek: ), thankfully the supply pipes battled on, some of my neighbours, we're a in 150 year old building, had their supply pipes freeze, and subsequently burtst.:mad:

Above all else, this has taught me community spirit. We're a block of 8 flats, who would ordinarily never communicate with each other, but this weather has broght us all together. :T

Eenymeeny

I've learnt that gloss paint takes ages to dry in cold weather. (Not nice when you don't have the windows open as much as usual:() and old bank statements etc give off good heat and save me from shredding them all:D) Keeping busy, doing the jobs that I have been putting off has kept me warmer, and I'm feeling quite chuffed with myself when I survey the clear files and cupboards:j

diddly74

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Keeping busy, doing the jobs that I have been putting off has kept me warmer, and I'm feeling quite chuffed with myself when I survey the clear files and cupboards:j

Grrrr that reminds me I need to do my filing too. Today is a wrapping and baking day cos if I don't do if now the kids will be broken up from school and I won't have a "free window" to get it done without their noses being poked in and asking all sorts of questions.

My best friend is taking my 8 yr old daughter shopping on Saturday to get me a Christmas present - ah bless. She was so worried that she wouldn't be able to get me a present without me knowing lol. :T

Stay safe people!! xxx

mrs-stressed

Frugal wrote: »

OH!!! And I learned that those who are really desperate to travel long distances to get to work for no apparent reason may well be up to no good... Take my ex - Feb 4th 2009 - Serious country wide snowfall, warnings not to travel, and he was desperate to get to cardiff (almost 140 miles)... Madness I told him... He was insistent... I smelled a rat. I talked him out of it... Whilst he was out with the kids I found evidence on his laptop of an affair with a co-worker... in Cardiff :eek:

Isnt it funny how your instincts paid off there.. I bet he was gutted. What a fool. Good luck for Xmas though and the rest of life actually. I bet its much happier!!!!

mrs s

mrs-stressed

I am looking out of my window and the sleet has turned to snow. My get-up-and-go has now got-up-and-gone. But my track is still passable as long as I am not out too long. Back to work tomorrow. I work for a VERY well known high street shop (think Twiggy) and they are getting ready for the end of the world frankly. Got to keep those tills a ringing tra la la. Regardless. Most people who have come in deserve a medal as it is a very rural area and they have organised, arranged (same thing) lifts and back-up plans to get them to work. I am getting a lift with a young lad with his whoofers and tweeters blaring boom boom tomorrow so that should be fun. I am actually thinking white knuckle ride - but as long as I get 'in' all should be well.......!! What I will have learned from that I dont know - other than he is a nice, pleasant young man and KIND...that makes a difference doesnt it!

mrs s

cooking-mama

This bad weather has taught me that there are still a lot of lovely, caring,and kind people around..The first "blizzard" we were practicaly snowed in/out..Teenage daughter left for College in Glasgow 07.45am,the Monday morning-(No sign of Snow)...By 10am,it was snowing heavily so Tutors dismissed students who had to travel any distance,I was relieved when she phoned to say she was on the bus home at 10.20...a journey that normaly takes 1.hour.......BUT over 6.hours later she was still on that bus!!!,stuck on a motorway somewhere,I was worried sick...to cut a long story short,she met a group of teenagers also trying to get home(she had met 1 of the girls only once before)..they all started trying to walk home...she made it to the girls house(2 small towns away from ours)The girls mother phoned me to say she was putting her up for the night,left her address and phone number and altho i was anxious that she was staying with "strangers",I was also reassured that she was safe and warm,and very grateful.

ps/Hopefully it has taught my OH to keep his mobile phone charged at all times...it took him over 11.hours to drive home(normally takes 35mins!!),and his phone battery ran out about 5hours before he made it.loss of contact at a time like this just adds to the worry.

Fruball

mrs-stressed wrote: »

I am looking out of my window and the sleet has turned to snow. My get-up-and-go has now got-up-and-gone. But my track is still passable as long as I am not out too long. Back to work tomorrow. I work for a VERY well known high street shop (think Twiggy) and they are getting ready for the end of the world frankly. Got to keep those tills a ringing tra la la. Regardless. Most people who have come in deserve a medal as it is a very rural area and they have organised, arranged (same thing) lifts and back-up plans to get them to work. I am getting a lift with a young lad with his whoofers and tweeters blaring boom boom tomorrow so that should be fun. I am actually thinking white knuckle ride - but as long as I get 'in' all should be well.......!! What I will have learned from that I dont know - other than he is a nice, pleasant young man and KIND...that makes a difference doesnt it!

mrs s

Your post did make me giggle :rotfl: Good luck with the white knuckle ride tomorrow

Fruball

cooking-mama wrote: »

This bad weather has taught me that there are still a lot of lovely, caring,and kind people around..The first "blizzard" we were practicaly snowed in/out..Teenage daughter left for College in Glasgow 07.45am,the Monday morning-(No sign of Snow)...By 10am,it was snowing heavily so Tutors dismissed students who had to travel any distance,I was relieved when she phoned to say she was on the bus home at 10.20...a journey that normaly takes 1.hour.......BUT over 6.hours later she was still on that bus!!!,stuck on a motorway somewhere,I was worried sick...to cut a long story short,she met a group of teenagers also trying to get home(she had met 1 of the girls only once before)..they all started trying to walk home...she made it to the girls house(2 small towns away from ours)The girls mother phoned me to say she was putting her up for the night,left her address and phone number and altho i was anxious that she was staying with "strangers",I was also reassured that she was safe and warm,and very grateful.

ps/Hopefully it has taught my OH to keep his mobile phone charged at all times...it took him over 11.hours to drive home(normally takes 35mins!!),and his phone battery ran out about 5hours before he made it.loss of contact at a time like this just adds to the worry.

:eek::eek: How terrifying for you but how kind of them to put her up.

I'm sitting here shaking my head - its really disruptive this weather isn't it

Keep safe everyone xx