What has this bad weather taught you?

Fruball

dundeedoll wrote: »

Oh noooooooooooooooooooo Frugal :mad:

Have a look at the 'Thanking board guides thread'...........posted on it earlier about the very same thing.

(Please don't be cross with me about the other thing I posted on there............wasn't 'having a go at you'............honest!)

:p:p:p:p

Of course, you are quite right obviously - I've not smoked today at all

Really mad about the WM :mad:

givememoney

Sorry if this is repeating but I couldn't bring myself to read thru all the posts.

I bought the gripper things for your shoes last winter and they finally arrived after the snow had gone, but am I glad I did and they work really well.

Also we are supposed to be driving to Dorset Christmas Day for dinner so haven't bought any Christmas food.

Then my son pointed out, `suppose the weather is too bad and we can't get there`:eek: I have now bought a chicken, sausges and bacon and stuffing so just in case we can at least have a Christmas dinner at home. Hoping of course it doesn't come to that.

Directly there is any hint of snow I top the car up with fuel.

Fruball

givememoney wrote: »

Sorry if this is repeating but I couldn't bring myself to read thru all the posts.

I bought the gripper things for your shoes last winter and they finally arrived after the snow had gone, but am I glad I did and they work really well.

Also we are supposed to be driving to Dorset Christmas Day for dinner so haven't bought any Christmas food.

Then my son pointed out, `suppose the weather is too bad and we can't get there`:eek: I have now bought a chicken, sausges and bacon and stuffing so just in case we can at least have a Christmas dinner at home. Hoping of course it doesn't come to that.

Directly there is any hint of snow I top the car up with fuel.

Well done that lad!!!

Well worth keeping a stash of food just in case. I could do a Christmas dinner for us too, (in case MrT cannot deliver) albeit it not quite traditional.

Good luck with travelling on the big day

redlady_1

I got caught out last year and ended up going to M & S in my lunch hour on Christmas Eve!!! :eek::eek: I swear I am still traumatised by the experience.

This year I have some food in!

Paulie'sGirl

I also learned that your oven WILL blow up at the most inconvenient time, i.e., 2 weeks before Xmas, when the lead time on a new one is over a week and I'm not going to be in the country to supervise it's installation...

Grrr :@

PGxx

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Paulie'sGirl wrote: »

I also learned that your oven WILL blow up at the most inconvenient time, i.e., 2 weeks before Xmas, when the lead time on a new one is over a week and I'm not going to be in the country to supervise it's installation...

Grrr :@

PGxx

I have a bucket BBQ and a bag of charcoal stashed in the cupboard under the stairs for such disasters as that, gas mains failures and power cuts. Oh, and a whistling kettle.

Even it looks a bit weird to the neighbours, me & DD will be able to eat Xmas dinner, albeit consisting of breast fillets, jacket potatoes, peas and sweetcorn, even if everything modern stops working.

THIRZAH

I bought the shoe gripper things in early October and remember joking to DH that"this will guarantee that we don't get any snow this winter"!

mrs-stressed

Dear all - I now have the joy of having a cold from hell - I look like a lemsip Advert - only worse. I am off for two days thank god. My voice has broken as well - I sound like Deirdre off Corrers!!. It was fairly quiet at work yesterday and my nose just ran and ran. I just cant get a festive thought in my head at all. I feel as Xmassy as a poor turkey in a queue wating for the chop.

Never mind. This time in a week it will all be over and the Easter eggs will be in!!

What ever you lose this winter dont lose your sense of humour - all that laughing keeps you warm!!!

mrs s

diddly74

mrs-stressed wrote: »

What ever you lose this winter dont lose your sense of humour - all that laughing keeps you warm!!!

mrs s

Indeed Mrs S we should all keep our sense of humour intact. Will someone tell that the my 11 yr old daughter who loses it with her 8yr old sister regularly.

bluebag

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I have a bucket BBQ and a bag of charcoal stashed in the cupboard under the stairs for such disasters as that, gas mains failures and power cuts. Oh, and a whistling kettle.

Even it looks a bit weird to the neighbours, me & DD will be able to eat Xmas dinner, albeit consisting of breast fillets, jacket potatoes, peas and sweetcorn, even if everything modern stops working.

Could you imagine if you started the barbecue in this weather to cook your dinner!! The neighbours would have you committed.

It would be a net curtain twitch of epic proportions.:rotfl: