Preparing for winter III

Ziggy8083

Proper excited about the ski socks coming into L*dl on Thursday. Sad I know but they are the best socks I ever bought.
-2 this morning with me and freezing fog. Batch cooking a cottage pie tonight and have soup with me for lunch today. Cold lunches are just not cutting it anymore.
Hope everyone is staying warm

p.s thanks to whoever posted about the cat food in Mr T's; hopefully offer is still on. Need to get some tonight.

Have a great day preppers!:A

prepareathome

well we have had the first frost of this winter - during the night you could see the white on the lawn, glistening in the light, it looks so lovely and such a clear sky, and woke up to a white world this morning and quite thick frost, and took till nearly 9am before sun melted it all - oh well this is my wake up call, not put cover on outside tap yet, so better get it done today. A perfect Autumn day chilly but sun is shinning.

Stay warm folks.

jamanda

Finally - got my snow boots. Ordered 3 pairs to date. Daughter has a pair, Dad took a fancy to them and he has a pair, and I ended up with a pair two sizes too big. Changed them at the shop yesterday without any hassle and now have a fetching shade of green to go with my "doggy coat". Will look like the jolly green giant/cross fleecy pompom. (At least they won't see my beautiful purple fleecy longjohns underneath). Oh heck, just read that back and had a vision of what you must be thinking I look like - stunning, eh? :eek:

Had to cave in and put heating on for an hour this morning as it is cold, damp and miserable.

Still haven't made my door curtain for porch - next weekend without fail.

Keep warm everyone

Hobsons_Choice

shirleymarye wrote: »

I remember 1947 and 1963,showing my age now:eek:

So do I shirleymarye: What a pair of old codgers we are! I got married during the winter of 1963. Mind you, that made for cosy nights!
Re: SAD, even the gorgeous Monty Don suffers with it...he of the lottsa dosh, gorgeous house and garden fame. See...it can affect anyone.

shirleymarye

Hobsons_Choice wrote: »

So do I shirleymarye: What a pair of old codgers we are! I got married during the winter of 1963. Mind you, that made for cosy nights!
Re: SAD, even the gorgeous Monty Don suffers with it...he of the lottsa dosh, gorgeous house and garden fame. See...it can affect anyone.

I had been living in Cyprus till 1962 as my OH was in the army and we came back to the UK to live in Wiltshire on Salisbury Plain,well it snowed and we lived in a new build married quarters,the snow was inside on the window ledge,metal frames you see! My little boy hated the "white stuff" and wanted to go home back to Cyprus,we had open fires there and I chopped logs every day,kept me fit! I was a nurse then and really struggled to get to work. I still think that 1947 was worse though as it dragged on and on.

Fruball

Hobsons_Choice wrote: »

So do I shirleymarye: What a pair of old codgers we are! I got married during the winter of 1963. Mind you, that made for cosy nights!
Re: SAD, even the gorgeous Monty Don suffers with it...he of the lottsa dosh, gorgeous house and garden fame. See...it can affect anyone.

Yes he does. Monty suffers very badly with SAD and wrote about it in his book. I had no idea until I read it.

It was such a relief to me when I got diagnosed. Having said that, I might have mentioned before that it hasn't kicked in yet this year! Which is great!!! :j Would be nice to think it had 'gone away' !!! Wishful thinking

almond

shirleymarye wrote: »

I had been living in Cyprus till 1962 as my OH was in the army and we came back to the UK to live in Wiltshire on Salisbury Plain,well it snowed and we lived in a new build married quarters,the snow was inside on the window ledge,metal frames you see! My little boy hated the "white stuff" and wanted to go home back to Cyprus,we had open fires there and I chopped logs every day,kept me fit! I was a nurse then and really struggled to get to work. I still think that 1947 was worse though as it dragged on and on.

i was a little girl then and remember my family were travelling down to wedding in durington that winter and got stuck in snow somewhere outside birmingham, always remember i was to be a bridemaid but was ill so never made it , neither did our family from the north

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My lakeland towel warmer came today and to call it a towel warmer just does not do it justice. Only 90watts and so warm. It`s very slim and the feet easily unscrew so v easy to store. It has a lot of potential. I already have towels on it drying but it is also keeping the chill off the room. This is going to be one useful item, I put it on a timer and an extension, so can move it around as needed. I love it and have already ordered another

I did change the plug to a switched plug with an on off light so it is easily visible and have positioned it so the plug is outside the en suite, where it is standing at the moment. Safety first, re electrics and bathrooms, as usual

I remember the 63 snow too and helicopters dropping supplies of food. People got stuck in work as suddenly the snow reached cill height and more and people got lost in drifts. Friends lived off oats the whole time

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prepareathome wrote: »

What is this please, don't think I have every heard of it?

Thanks

so sorry, I knew I was too quick posting but was in a mad rush. They absolutely do work and so easily but they are pricey. In our last house I had them everywhere, 10 in all, so everywhere there was this lovely white non-flickering light. The bulbs in this house are not at all bad but they are very expensive and the fittings are the special ones for energy saving, As soon as the bulbs start failing then we will replace the fittings to take the bayonet biobulbs that I have kept (all 10). I just have 3 now and all in table lamps

http://www.fullspectrumlighting.co.uk/

The very worst lights are the nasty energy saving ones with the yellow tones (chap). They make me feel lethargic and down so I don`t have any in the house

You would need to shop around for the cheapest source
http://www.fullspectrumlighting.co.uk/

http://www.allergybestbuys.co.uk/ebuttonz/ebz_product_pages/energysavingdaylightbiobulbs-901037m.shtml

Hobsons_Choice

almond wrote: »

i was a little girl then and remember my family were travelling down to wedding in durington that winter and got stuck in snow somewhere outside birmingham, always remember i was to be a bridemaid but was ill so never made it , neither did our family from the north

We were living in Birmingham at that time!

Aldi have got some flanelette pjs on offer on Thursday @ £8.99. They look lovely.
(They also have Baileys and chocolate cups on offer, but you don't need to know that ).