What has this bad weather taught you?

soba

It's taught me not to book and pay for a cottage holiday 200 miles from home as cancellation due to the weather is upsetting and expensive.:(

bluebag

soba wrote: »

It's taught me not to book and pay for a cottage holiday 200 miles from home as cancellation due to the weather is upsetting and expensive.:(

Been there and done that... it's bad enough that you miss the holiday without losing the money.

I always book last minute now, I think well, we always have the tent if it doesn't come off.

I usually get a good late deal so it's more money saving.

Snowy_Owl

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

I think this sentiment is soooo true of such health / weather problems but of major life events. I learnt a lot this year.......

Snowy:)

mrs-stressed

Frugal - just reporting in about the whoofer and tweeter pick up. I arranged with him to pick me up half a mile away from my house as it was then on a main road. Got to 8.20 and I was standing in the snow with my red wellies (just in case he couldnt see me!) and a gritted teeth look on my face. Guess what - he sailed in by. A wagon passed me and he didnt see me standing coz of the wagon. So whilst I was swearing and huffing and puffing with rage I tried to phone him - silly really as he couldnt have answered - but I was so cross I could melted the snow round me with the heat I was generating! Anyway, two minutes later he saw me and slowed down and picked me up. I said to him in no uncertain terms that had he being going a tad slower he would have seen me and he said he hadnt gone past at all. It was a complete double! Same car -cleaner, same head and shoulders (collar up of course) but different bloke. Well I felt such a twit I swallowed all my words and zipped it from then on!! BUT, then after being in work all day I finished at 6, got my coat on, red wellies back on, shopping, bag, scarf, gloves and all that shiz naz and waited. I waited and I waited. Ten past, quarter past, no sign of w & t. Then I sat down and just gave up - I looked really !!!!ed off apparently - it just couldnt get any worse. He then bounced up to me and said did I not know he didnt finish till 7. I nearly imploded at that point. All I wanted to do was get home in one piece, watch a bit of telly, have a glass or two of wine and then slope off the bed. All my visions of happiness had dissappeared....

Anyway I did get home - eventually and than heaven for that. And I have a streaming cold to boot - with customers who will insist on coughing and sneezing in my face and dont apologise!!!!!!!!! Oh and putting their card or money in their mouth and then handing it to me. Oh boy oh boy. Yesterday was a corker.

Still smiling though! love mrs s

Pitlanepiglet

Oh dear Mrs S, sounds like a stressful day....I do chuckles slightly though to think of the version of events that the young lad is recounting to his buddies though :rotfl: glad you finally got home safe and sound.

Still very smug here as we're still snowed in, our lane is impassible other than by 4x4 in all directions and if I'd not done my shopping I'd be starting to sweat a little as it's not showing any sign of clearing as it's currently -6 outside :eek:

Going to take a hike over the hill shortly to visit Dad's buddy who's also snowed in, he's on his own though as his family live away, he's had one hip replacement and other surgery recently so we'll pop over and take him cake!

custardy

that the car will break on the snowiest day we have had for a while
gonna have to go out and work on it

pollys

Next year I will be organised for winter and Christmas much, much earlier. I will also organise my freezer better, it's stocked up with fishfingers because they were on offer, but the space could be better used. I'm also finding that in snowy weather there is much more work to do , when the children are in and out, more wet clothes, wet footprints, wellies to dry out. Things take much longer to do when you cant just pop to the shops. Therefore by being organised I will have more time and feel less stressed.

Pollys xxx

richardvc

The best thing that I learnt is that having an emergency snow kit in the car really does pay.......

Last year got stranded coming home from work overnight on the motorway after a lorry jack knifed. It had done it on the most inaccessible part and with terrible weather we were in for the night.

Thankfully had my kit with me. Coat, hat, extra fleece, fleece lined overtrousers, scarf, thermal walking boots, gloves, torch, mobile phone charger, chocolate, biscuits, bottled water, shovel, and this was on top on my work uniform which is very warm anyway.

Had to switch the car off and also get out to check others were ok - it was snowing with the coldest sharp wind you could imagine - I always thought that it was a bit OTT having a kit like this but when you use it and are then staggered to see others without anything except a coat you realise what a good move it was.

Thanks MSE, got the idea from you and both me and the missus have a kit in the cars all winter!!!!

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I will never assume that winter will be wet and mild again. Ok I get ready via the storecupboard and all the provisions just as a matter of course but from this year on I will do it with meaning, knowing that we could be snowed in for a good month or more. More than that, I will have the prep completely finished by dec 1st every year and I will nag and nag my adult children to do the same

What else has it taught me? I will never take my breadmaker forgranted again, never in a million years. It is on daily now. The slow cooker too will never be taken forgranted, giving out a soft ambient heat whilke cooking for us. My candle store, that was a bit ridiculed, well not any more as two good yankee candles keep up the temperature in the hall as well as bringing light into the house and dh has now changed his tune

someone said that they hadn`t seen me the other day. I felt no shame in saying that I was hibernating

kayjay1809

brighthair wrote: »

that having norovirus followed by flu in the same week, makes you feel very poorly

The same, I'm just recovering and feel horrendous. I'm saving money as I'm not eating