What has this bad weather taught you?

Kimitatsu

Having been snowed in with my two boys who are teenagers, its taught me that I really LIKE them, not just love them, and I can see the men they will grow into.

Dont get me wrong they do my head in some (ok lots lol) of the time, but when we all needed to pull together they were there ready and waiting.

They are back to school tomorrow but I have enjoyed the extra holiday we have had together

Fruball

Kimitatsu wrote: »

Having been snowed in with my two boys who are teenagers, its taught me that I really LIKE them, not just love them, and I can see the men they will grow into.

Dont get me wrong they do my head in some (ok lots lol) of the time, but when we all needed to pull together they were there ready and waiting.

They are back to school tomorrow but I have enjoyed the extra holiday we have had together

awwwwwwwwww how lovely

Snowy_Owl

It has taught me/hit home to me how badly I was affected by stress/anxiety/panic attacks last year and how good the treatment and support was from my GP/counsellor and friends. On thursday, my work was back open and I had a 50 mile round trip ( my part of the county badly hit). Having spent 3 and a half hours getting to work with only an hour of that driving ( normally only 35 mins door-door) I was totally on edge by the time I got to work. I was so tense that when I sat down with a coffee, all it took was for someone to look at me and I totlally broke down, i was that tense!! 18 months ago, I was that tense the whole time...........

Also it has tught me...
the viallge we have moved to is great/very hardy in this weather.
We have a great wee shop and folk look out for each other.
Everyone rejoiced when the village hotel/pub reopened
Hubby's new second-hand car is a demon in this weather!!
Home-made soup cannot be beaten in this weather.
Cats are more intelligent than dogs- the litter trays are inside, as is food, and they take one look at the snow and just look at you when you open the door as if to say "I don't think I'll bother on that one today......
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Snowy x

valk_scot

I had just about everything, but I was starting to feel a bit nervous about not having enough cat litter and I definately should keep more dried or UHT milk. Also it's no good having a ton of bread flour in stock if you run out of the right yeast for the breadmaker! I did have a tub of the wrong sort of yeast though so I just made bread by hand. I only went out once in the last eight days and that was to pick up a prescription for my neighbour.

And I learned that I could hire out my big strapping 14 year old DS by the hour, to shovel snow and run errands for the older neighbours. Unfortunately he kept all his earnings for himself...I didn't even get a 10% agency cut for answering the phone to requests!

Spendless

That there's a thru train from my village to the village where I work. Few minutes walk either end. :j Not very frequent, but never again will I need to wonder what one earth do I do if car is in for repair etc.

scattymam1

ahh thanks frugal - will start reading that now, looks like a laugh too

Oh and I thought of another thing...I've learnt to keep an eye on the elderly, the local news told of two elderly people who were found in their gardens who had died, they had fallen over perhaps and died being in the cold all night, so I gave my dad a stern talking to that he's not to go out in the snow on a night, and he shouldn't go out to the garage just incase. Keeping an extra eye on him at this time.

Sue14

Snowy_Owl wrote: »

Cats are more intelligent than dogs- the litter trays are inside, as is food, and they take one look at the snow and just look at you when you open the door as if to say "I don't think I'll bother on that one today......
"
Snowy x

PMSL at this as it's so true and my cat is exactly the same, she sniffs at the cold air and looks at me as if I'm mad for suggesting she go out in it, before going into the lounge to settle down for yet another nap, lol!

Luckily we haven't had the snow too bad here so far, so we've managed to continue more or less as normal, but I'm glad I finally managed to get some decent boots, which are warm and have a good grip on the soles, before it did snow as last year the boots I had didn't have any grip on them, and I was skidding all the time and actually fell right over twice, landing with a heck of a thud (but miraculously not breaking anything, although my ego took a dent, lol) and as 'Doingmybest2bgoodhurrah' said, that hurts a lot more as you get older, lol!

I'm well stocked up on breadmaking ingredients, powdered milk and soup amongst other things, my OH works in a supermarket (which helps as I don't drive when it's snowy or icy), but if it's so bad that he can't get to work we could have problems, so best if we have the essentials in, just in case.

Sue.

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I learned that no matter how well stocked up you are there is always something that you really want and haven't got .In my case I had a severe longing for a bar of ordinary milk chocolate .Horrors !!! there was not a scrap of chocolate in my house. I was almost tempted to unwrap a packet of after eights that was wrapped as part of a present for a friend but I thought no I will have an early night instead ,but boy did I really think about some choccy At 3,30 a.m. I woke up almost tasting the stuff.Needless to say as soon as the shops were open this morning I bunged two large bars of Cadburys Dairy Milk in my shopping basket .What do you know they are sitting in my fridge and I haven't thought about them once .But come the next cold snap I will not be without my essential supplies They are now my emergency stock, a woman just can't do without chocolate no matter what it cheers you up no end :):)

JulieGeorgiana

I learned that people go nuts when it snows and panic buy!

I also learned that I need to keep powdered milk in the house and cat litter!

My Princess took 1 step outside, ran in the house and tried to find a place to do her business inside!!!!!!!!!!!

Apart from that we could have managed a good long time!

esmf73

I've learnt that I need to keep more sauces in jars in the cupboard - as someone said earlier - when it snows and you're stuck in, you kind of can't be bothered! So will be stocking up and ensuring that I get some calor gas for the BBQ / gas fire. Well you never know if the heating / gas goes off I'd be stuck. Have candles, but no other means of cooking / heating.