Preparing for winter III

karren

i finally got around to lining a pair of curtains with fleece! got 2 fleeces inpoundstretcher for £5 and then whilst i was at it i shortened my sons curtains and out of the off cuts i made draft excluders and so now have 2 bench ones and stuffed with old clothes from rag bag, and made a dog bed from his old curtains so dog pleased too!

karren

Quasar wrote: »

Winter is well and truly here in London also. Today I've had a typical winter day. Had the slowcooker on overnight (lovely beef stew with veggies, lentils and herbs etc :drool:) then this morning made portions of it that I let cool then put in the freezer. Left one out to have at lunch with a glass of wine. Looovely!

Heating is on but not at full as my fleeces are coming into their own now, as is the flask full of hot cuppas.

I'm ready for the worst as my job takes me out and about come rain or shine, so two woolly hats just washed and ready, gloves, padded coats cleaned, and even my yak-trak shoe chains for when the ice appears on pavements and roads.

Oh and two fleecy blankets in lieu of sheets, one bottom and one top. They are sooo warm against the skin that it's like having two extra blankets on top, and fleece washes easily and dries quickly.

EDIT - Re: candles, I agree with Confuzzled. You don't need many and in fact one or two should provide enough lighting in emergencies. I certainly wouldn't use them to make any contribution to heating.

thats a good idea for the fleeces ill dig out the shabby old ones and use them in sons room!

Quasar

karren wrote: »

thats a good idea for the fleeces ill dig out the shabby old ones and use them in sons room!

I guarantee you: fleece against skin feels and IS a lot warmer than ordinary sheets. I even have some cheap zip up fleeces that I use as jumpers and they keep me really toasty.

Thriftkitten

Well afternoon preppers, I am back home now after a long morning of giving hugs and love to the elderly of the neighbourhood, with a few ounces of love to give to my 2 DD's, I have a poorly 9yr old who came down with a roaring temperature late last night so somethings'a brewing!
Still no better today, she has been sleeping most of the day, but has now got up as she sniffed out the home made beef stew and dumlings sizzling away in the pressure cooker.
It looks like midnight outside and really is tipping it down, I love my home when it's like this, the kids are really appreciative of home cooked food, and love being snuggled up of the sofa with their fleeces, the pooches are in love with the stew smell and are beside themselves!
and I'm just about to sit and have a bowl full and snuggle with the kids... Oh how i wish everyday could be like this afternoon, minus the poorly DD, I am thinking the ibuprophen has helped to set her mood as normally she wouldn't stay put on the sofa for so long.
Hope your all staying warm and snuggly and enjoying the fruits of your prepping labour.:D

groatie_queen

Just wanted to say how warm it is with my heated throw on the sofa. It's usually only on at about 3 (can go up to 9) and is plenty warm. The cat lies on it, and the rest is wrapped round me. My thermostatic radiator valves are only on at 2 in the main room, and 1 elsewhere, and the heating is on for an hour in the morning and 2 at night. No way could I cope with this without the heated throw. It has been an excellent buy!

shegar

prepareathome wrote: »

I don't care if right place or not, I for one am so glad to hear your news, that is so great, am very, very happy for you I really am, to have relief from pain makes everything in your life seem better, trite but true, you look at the world in a whole different way and even what seemed that mountains before suddenly shrink to hills - I hope it keeps the pain at bay. Are you going for more sessions? Hugs

Thanks so much, I feel like a new woman I really do, I actually went shopping today first time in 14 weeks..........near enough pain free..:T:T:T:T:T, the relief is like getting my life back so pleased.....Thanks so m uch who pressed the thanks button...:T

rising_from_the_ashes

Shegar that's fantastic news ..... only just catching up on posts properly (tend to skim read & then have a "proper" one). Sorry the injection didn't provide much relief (all that pain and not a great result EEEEEKKKKK) but glad it's so much better now.

adelight

Could the met office be any more vague with their forecasts? :mad: Basically "it's going to get generally colder and it might snow anywhere"! I've just booked my train to spend xmas with family for the morning of dec 23rd. It's the earliest I can leave but at least I've got all day to battle it out if it does snow and the trains are as bad as last year. I've got a seat reserved automatically but how much do you wanna bet someone sits in it anyway and refuses to move because they have a shopping bag or are 3 days older than me?

Confuzzled

adelight wrote: »

Could the met office be any more vague with their forecasts? :mad: Basically "it's going to get generally colder and it might snow anywhere"! I've just booked my train to spend xmas with family for the morning of dec 23rd. It's the earliest I can leave but at least I've got all day to battle it out if it does snow and the trains are as bad as last year. I've got a seat reserved automatically but how much do you wanna bet someone sits in it anyway and refuses to move because they have a shopping bag or are 3 days older than me?

i do NOT envy you at all, last year our journey to dunoon was a nightmare and the year before wasn't that much better. this year we do have an overnight stay in edinburgh however that's at our leisure and we have a hotel room that night there so we get to break the journey into two parts if it's really horrid. if i think it will be a true nightmare i'll promise to take my daughter to the christmas faire after christmas (it goes on til january 4th) but it wouldn't be quite the same as a lot of stuff would be gone but i would be so stressed i'm not sure either of us could enjoy it!

take care everyone that has to travel, leave as early as you can and travel as light as you can (i know, not easy at christmas) and hang on tight i think we may be in for a bumpy ride!

Eenymeeny

Thanks Mardy, in future I'm naming this a guilt-free zone! And the eating sweets thing... maybe it could be a survival technique, like polar bears building up fat reserves for winter warmth?;):rotfl:
All this talk of using tealights to cook on, can anyone remember last year someone set up an emergency radiator by placing a baking sheet on 2 spaced out bricks and tealights underneath? I can't remember the fine details but she said that it gave emergency heat to her chilly kitchen. Please be careful, I wouldn't want anyone to melt their worktops:eek::eek::eek: