Preparing for winter III

Starstream

angelaloveschocolate wrote: »

Tried this site but just dont get it. It seems to be the forcasts for 2006 - 2010. Starstream how do I find current forcasts, please? Sorry if I'm being thick

Your not thick,if you join forum you will have access to main boards,and can read threads.
It's very friendly and if your not a partaker,you can lurk in peace.

Rainy-Days

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Meant to ask yesterday as the 2 bags of dog food arrived ... do you think it'll be OK to store the "emergency" bag in the garage?

I've got a big tub that takes a 15kg bag (which I've just emptied one into) and room to keep 1 other but struggling to fit both the new bags into this room - I have to keep them in there as it's the room with the baby gate and Mr Mischief can and will open a bag given the chance!:D

The only thing you are going to have to watch out for is mice. They will try and get into your garage to make a nest and home for themselves to over-winter. If there is a food source in there so much the better and they will eat through the thick plastic sack to get at the food so you are going to have to keep a watchful eye on it. Our sack is out in the garage at the moment and we have fields around us. I suspect that the little perishers come over form the field opposite and pitch up in my garage at a moments notice especially when I put my warm car away in there.

Contary to popular belief, if you want to use a mouse trap, mice cannot resist peanut butter and if you put that on a trap you will have a frenzy! One even had a dead mouse on the trap while the other one came along and pinch the peanut butter off it!

Fruball

OMG It has snowed for 5 mins in Nottingham :eek:

FB friend just posted that the sky went really dark, snowed then turned to rain!!!

Rainy-Days

Frugal is she sure it wasn't hail? No doubting her at all but for snow the temperture has to be one degree above zero or below! Whereas hail is formed in the upper atmosphere and freezes up there in balls which then drops rapidly!

Frugal_Dreamer

Frugal wrote: »

OMG It has snowed for 5 mins in Nottingham :eek:

FB friend just posted that the sky went really dark, snowed then turned to rain!!!

No it did not.......some people

Fruball

Rainy-Days wrote: »

Frugal is she sure it wasn't hail? No doubting her at all but for snow the temperture has to be one degree above zero or below! Whereas hail is formed in the upper atmosphere and freezes up there in balls which then drops rapidly!

She was shocked but said it was def snow... Who knows? I wasn't there

rosieben

Frugal wrote: »

OMG It has snowed for 5 mins in Nottingham :eek:

I was just reading this - wonder if your fb friend is mistaken (says she hopefully, or else its far too early and too far south) :eek:

Fruball

Edited as I CBA

Fruball

rosieben wrote: »

I was just reading this - wonder if your fb friend is mistaken (says she hopefully, or else its far too early and too far south) :eek:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Brilliant!!

She is on the Derby/Notts border - I hope she is mistaken :eek:

Horrible strange grey clouds out the back of my house just now - perfect blue skies and fluffy white clouds at the front!! I am in the south tho so its gonna be a while before we get any snow... I hope!!

rising_from_the_ashes

Rainy-Days wrote: »

The only thing you are going to have to watch out for is mice. They will try and get into your garage to make a nest and home for themselves to over-winter. If there is a food source in there so much the better and they will eat through the thick plastic sack to get at the food so you are going to have to keep a watchful eye on it. Our sack is out in the garage at the moment and we have fields around us. I suspect that the little perishers come over form the field opposite and pitch up in my garage at a moments notice especially when I put my warm car away in there.

:eek:Darn it ...... should've thought of that. Also have a field at the back of the house with a thriving population despite the best efforts of big cat;). (He went flying outside yesterday morning, straight to the back of the garden and had one in literally 10 seconds ..... so they're def looking for places to go:().

Will have to try to have a shuffle to get the 2nd bag in the "cats room"......