Preparing for Spring!!!

purpleivy

Frugal wrote: »

Thanks ioiwe and beemuzed

I suffer really badly with SAD and as usual I have really struggled since November but a bright sunny day can really lift my mood and motivate me, reminding me that despite the fact it is still freezing cold and I am also sure that we will get more snow and ice, Spring IS coming. We are nearer to it each day and we are much more than half way thru the winter.

Hopefully this thread will help motivate others and we can start getting all those jobs done that means once Spring does arrive, we can enjoy it

I really suffer with Seasonal Affective Disorder as well. Beginning of Nov was bad for me and then now. I've upped the dose of medication so feeling a bit poo at the moment.

This is a nice thread because it makes us remember that there will be brighter days ahead.

I get really brassed off when people tell me they don't like the winter and they think they have 'that' as well. They seem to be functioning quite normally and not suffering at all, other than not liking dark/bad weather and not having to do SAD lamp time and take shed loads of antidepressants to get through important stuff like work and interacting with other people.

Sorry, gone off topic. WHen I feel better in March/April then I'll be joining in with all these things

Fruball

purpleivy wrote: »

I really suffer with Seasonal Affective Disorder as well. Beginning of Nov was bad for me and then now. I've upped the dose of medication so feeling a bit poo at the moment.

This is a nice thread because it makes us remember that there will be brighter days ahead.

I get really brassed off when people tell me they don't like the winter and they think they have 'that' as well. They seem to be functioning quite normally and not suffering at all, other than not liking dark/bad weather and not having to do SAD lamp time and take shed loads of antidepressants to get through important stuff like work and interacting with other people.

Sorry, gone off topic. WHen I feel better in March/April then I'll be joining in with all these things

Me too - and I can't wait to start reducing anti d's and start feeling better. The anti d's help with SAD but make me feel lousy and even more tired! I don't know which is worse sometimes

Hope you start feeling better soon

stiltwalker

Well the sun was out today and made me feel really like spring is on the way so got my wellies on and went out in the garden for a bit of a tidy up and to plant my January garlic out, it's the first thing thats gone into the garden this year and hoping it's the first of many, I'd really like to get a good harvest from my garden this year, did ok last year but only moved into the house at the end of April so was a bit late to get as much sorted as I would have liked as only had a small yard at the old place so hadn't planted enough seedlings to fill a proper garden. This year I want to be better organised and have plenty ready to go out when the weather improves.

Fruball

I have taken the fleece off the back door and OMG I can really tell the difference - For 7 years I had nothing up at that door during winter and the extra heating it must have cost me is :eek: I have had to turn the heating up for the first time in ages

Its nice to have the light coming thru the glass though and I really didn't like the untidy fleece but if we get another very cold snap its going back up!!! And I will make a more aesthetically pleasing curtain ready for next winter.

Thats as far as my spring preps are going to go for now...

Nice to see all my bulbs poking thru - very springy

frugalbrunette

You're brave Frugal. I wish I have the nerve to take mine down and to be fair DH has put strip round the door so the draft shouldn't be any where near as bad but just worried it'll be frozzin. A lovely stain glass window in that door and I can't see it for nearly half the year!

I have a little tiny bit of green poking through on my basil seedlings on the window sill (in the old plastic egg box) so happy there.

supersally01

Loving this spring themed, feel good thread! Cleaned and valleted the car, and cleaned my carpets upstairs, which were manky. Also took delivery of my seed potatoes that I got for free on an earlier glitch. Very excited, put them out to chit. Hoping for a good crop this year, but won't be able to put them out for a while in Inverness!

BUXTONRABBIT

Spring has sprung (well a bit) I noticed some colour on the primulas today also plenty of weeds coming up. I too got a load of washing dryish on the line.
It is still flipping freezing though. I did turn the heating off for 2 days last week, but it is back on part time again now.

Fruball

BUXTONRABBIT wrote: »

Spring has sprung (well a bit) I noticed some colour on the primulas today also plenty of weeds coming up. I too got a load of washing dryish on the line.
It is still flipping freezing though. I did turn the heating off for 2 days last week, but it is back on part time again now.

Thank you SOOOOO much! I am off on hols tomorrow and have a fav pair of 3/4 lengths on the line - probably frozen solid by now!!!

Justamum

BUXTONRABBIT wrote: »

Spring has sprung (well a bit) I noticed some colour on the primulas today

My absolute favourite spring flower - the wild ones anyway. The cultivated ones don't have the shade of yellow quite right :rotfl:

Even thicker ice on the car this morning

diddly74

I'm In! The Getting Read for Winter Board helped me no end this year and our October-January Elec and Bas Bill was only £360!!! I was very pleased, as I didn't skimp on the heating over the cold spell and as I was off Uni I was home all day!

I hate cleaning windows, but sitting here I can see lots of muddy paw prints on the patio door where the dogs have jumped up to be let in! Grrr dogs.

shegar wrote: »

Birds are busy eating alot of my different feeds ive put out, its been dam right nippy today even with all that lovely winter sunshine.
Also put up some bigger holes boxes to try get some great tits here, cos we do have loads on the feeders, be nice for them to nest in the garden too..........

Oh and I went out and got myself another 7 chickens this afternoon to go with my 13 , so ive now got 21 hens..........

I am Soooooooo jealous about your chickens. I had 7 of my own until May last year when we had to move into rented accommodation. LLs are really nice here but as our garden is mostly paved over I have been trying to work out how I can fit a couple new girls into our garden. Obviously I have to get LLs permission to have them so need a full plan to put to them.

I also want to encourage this lickle birdies into my garden but surely its too late to put new food out for them now?

Frugal wrote: »

For the record; We don't want to get moved to Greenfingers as its not a gardening thread but a Preparing for Spring thread which, inevitably will involve some gardening but lots of other things too Recycling plastic milk cartons, toilet rolls and various other vessels for OS seed trays for instance If we can place an OS slant on each of our posts then I guess we will be allowed to remain here.

Toilet Roll insides are great for planting up Sweet Pea seeds. They like a long rooting space so the length of tube is ideal!

I have had very minimal experience in “growing my own”. I can do it, and have grown tomatoes, corgettes, spinach, potatoes. I can grow pretty much anything in a pot but when it comes to putting stuff in the ground I find I am rubbish! I can’t plan even!!!

My Plan for spring is beginning therefore with planting up some seeds to start on my kitchen window cill which is very sunny today! And sort out the clothing we have. There is a scheme near me which will pay me £5 for every 10 kilos of textiles I donate. So a money spinner too! The garage is another place that needs cleaning out and organising soon. I use part of it as a pantry (cupboards are no good for food I like to see what I have got lol) so that needs tidying up and sorting and the rest of the gubbings lying around put away!