Preparing for winter III

mardatha

My Sainsbugs delivery came, with a very full of himself young guy who drove right down our cul de sac, despite the fact that it was frozen snow over ice....
We said Oh be careful, you'll get stuck....and he said Nooo I wont I'm fine. With a pitying smile for the two old fusspots.. .:D:D
ONE HOUR later, with a lot of shovelling from my OH and sliding to within inches of our car and the neighbours' ..... he finally got back out :D:D

prepareathome

Mardatha, sounds as if maybe you should buy a few bags of grit - don't know if you have a Mr M anywhere near with a garage, they are selling 10kg bags for £3, they might even have them instore, I only ever go in the store when we get a voucher, as hubby buys their petrol, basically for the voucher, as even though for us takes months it always seems to come just when we need that extra £5

No more hail the rain came back and hasn't gone away soon, definitely thinking of seeing if the sledges can be used as boats, as expected water levels to rise any time, and we are no where near an above ground river, there is one that has been built over a mile away, but we have in the past had water covering road, coming over the kerb and coming into gardens before now when we have had as much rain as we are having now even though road has very good drainage it just cannot handle all this as we live at bottom of a hill and all water runs down, so far drains are coping but for how much longer I wonder.

beanrua

Car stuck on hill outside my house at 11.30 last night. Me and OH went out with shovels and put grit under the tyres and then I said all knowingly - ' no throttle' and away he went. He was very grateful for us gritting and helping him. 30 mins later we heard another car revving and went out with shovels - the lad looked at us as if we were mad and said he'd get up the hill with no bother - so we went inside again - about 15 mins later he knocked and asked for the loan of a shovel to put some grit down!!!

mcjordi

Confuzzled wrote: »

cheers, i ordered at the same time it appears so least i know not to worry about it coming today... i do hope if the weather is wild on thursday as expected it still gets here, got some goodies in the house waiting for stuff from my AF order... well and my driver is really nice and brings the boxes to the top of the stairs for me so i wouldn't want him out in nasty weather poor man!

ill be getting mine tomorrow.. got the email to say its been dispatched

poohbear59

I have hardly joined in with you and now I wish I listened to all you sensible people on this thread.

We had snow yesterday, still more last night, I have a horrible cold and we still have no heating oil. The house is like an ice box. The worst thing is attempting to get out of bed in the morning, it is sooo cold.

The wood burner is alight but it isn't really touching the temperature of the living room. Now I know how people felt when this house was built in 17th century.

So my list for this week.
Chase up oil order
Order gas
Price up wood splitters
Price up 4wd vehicles - used and read reviews.
Cling film over single glazed windows
check doors - get living room door frame repaired, porch doors to be shaved and refitted
contact plumber re changes to wood stove plumbing.

ETA posted to make myself get organised for the bad weather.

Confuzzled

just saw that lidl will be having single, double and king size mircofleece fitted sheets from dec 12th, might pick some up myself!

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/offerdate.htm?offerdate=26808


EDIT: oh i just looked at more stuff available on the 12th from lidl, there are some fireplace items (ash vacumn,fire tool set,fireguard) for those of you that may need them, seem a good price and a big rug http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/offerdate.htm?offerdate=26853

tryingtobethrifty

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

You must be roughly in the same vicinity as me (as much as that means in rural terms IYKWIM:)) - the Fort's the nearest place for shops for me ... around 25 miles.

TBH it was pretty quiet yesterday lunchtime (was surprised as usually much busier this time of year) - I arrived at 10 am on the dot this morning as only wanted to go to one shop (went to Mr A first) and wanted to get home ASAP in case more snow came. Was quiet then but there was a fair bit of traffic heading towards town as I was travelling back.

I should've went up then, but at least I saved money not shopping. We're not that far out ...12 miles or so, can just make it there and back, if I'm quick, between nursery runs.

ooh... and thank you for the starting advice, I got snow tyres this year so hoping not to be stuck in quite as much as last year.

salome

Hi

Confuzzled, I home school as well :-) Have done for about 18yrs :-)

x

tugrin

Hey Confuzzled and salome - Im a teacher and I home schooled my school-refuser son for 2 years!!!!! There just isnt one size fits all in education and much as my ego would like it I know there are children out there who do better with committed parents than little ol' me!!!!
Mind Im in it for the children of totally uncommitted parents these days - after all someone has to.
Dont worry poohbear - Im a prepper of very little brain too - my loo rolls are down to a mere 18 (dont all faint) and the hat I spent so much money on proved totally useless in todays wind so have to rethink how to keep a warm face and head!

Rummer

Hello

I just wanted to share with people who will understand

Today I drove to work with my winter emergency kit in the car, knowing it was there gave me a warm and happy feeling!