Preparing for winter III

Fruball

I've just put my heating on for a few minutes - no point in being freezing - fire is lit too so its snug in here - early night for me tonight and more winter preps tomorrow

Rose_Crow

oldtractor wrote: »

another vote for those lights. They really are good.
Rainy-Days I wish you lived nearer! You would be very welcome and we could talk horse until midnight.

Ooh can I join? Talking horse all night in front of an open fire is my idea of heaven!

Prudent

Its half term week here in Scotland, so I am making the best of the week off to get some winters preps done. I did a lot in the summer holidays and now its just really bedding, warm clothes and new boots (though have already bought snow boots), snowtrax and food, cat litter etc.

I am looking for fleecy mattress protectors. Has anyone got a good price on these?

springdreams

I bought one of these Seriously Soft Blankets from Dunelm for snuggling on the couch whilst watching telly. It is quite big and very very warm. I'm going to have to get another one as ds has become attached to it :cool:

http://www.dunelm-mill.com/shop/seriously-soft-blanket-196808

slm6002

went to asda today and in their lobby they had snow shovels, deicer, and gripper things for the boots. Sorry i didnt look at any prices as friend was hurrying me along to the cafe

springdreams

slm6002 wrote: »

went to asda today and in their lobby they had snow shovels, deicer, and gripper things for the boots. Sorry i didnt look at any prices as friend was hurrying me along to the cafe

Some of the stores now also have the de-icing white salt in for £3 for 10kgs.

singlestep

*miaomiao*, thanks for the suggestion about the sunrise alarm clock and to Frugal and springdreams, too. I’m considering placing an order for one of the clocks you’ve suggested, so thank you for that. It’s definitely worth a try as it just seems wrong to me to be getting up while it’s still dark. Part of my problem could simply be not enough sleep – there aren’t enough hours in the day sometimes! I also, apparently, talk and am quite active when I sleep. I set three alarms in the morning, one in another room, but often I seem to switch it off and go back to bed although I haven’t got up more than 30 minutes late yet (I’ve just jinxed it, haven’t I?). I quite regularly have to work late in to the evening and this has a knock-on effect on the time I can expect to fall asleep at. What I need is a big Rewind button. Anyone know where to get one of those?



Chirpychick I’m so sorry life is so tough for you just now. Take care xx


tugrin sometimes, for me, the idea of going back after a long gap can be as bad as the actual reality of it? I know long holidays and being off ill are two different things, though, and I hope that everything goes well when you do return.


I’ve had the heating on tonight. I resisted all day but when my head began to feel cold underneath my scarf (getting a thicker one tomorrow) and my fingers were cold too, I gave in. Tomorrow, I’m going out to meet some friends but Thursday’s my day to try to get my coat/boots sorted out (I hope).

oldtractor

grn.w.nv wrote: »

Ooh can I join? Talking horse all night in front of an open fire is my idea of heaven!

Welcome,but bring some marshmallows with you.:j

lizzyb1812

It's perfectly normal to want to sleep more and to hate getting up in the dark - we evolved to live in the light and sleep in the dark. But modern times mean we have to stick to schedules that dictate being active when our brains don't want to be.

Light boxes help, light up wake up alarms help, getting out and about in the middle of the day helps, vit d3 helps some people - I use all these and it really makes autumn/winter much more bearable, even enjoyable.

But tugrin if you sleep a lot and "oh f***" is your reaction to getting up in winter then you may need a bit more than self help. As for the difficulties of driving in the dark, I found the way to go was to practice - take the car out on a local, known, route in the dark a few times to get your eyes dark-adapted, it really does help.

Blue_Elephant

*delurks*


I was hoping you could help, I need some thermal leggings for the walk to/from work, and I was wondering which are worth getting? I'm loathe to buy some from Primark in case they turn out to be rubbish and I have to buy more from elsewhere, as that would be false economy, yet I don't want to spend M&S prices if I can get decent ones much cheaper. Any recommendations?