Preparing for winter III

prepareathome

Wind has got up here and its -2 outside was freezing before as dogs asked to go out as they always do when I go into kitchen brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Trying to get some energy up also to put some grit down.

Fruball

mardatha wrote: »

Nose bothering me now as to a sister of bawbag's name...
OH away out and will be home late, he taking son home to Edinburgh. Looks like a blizzard but not lying for long before melting. This wind is the worst I've been through for a few years, and up here we get a lot! Between the noise of it hitting the windows and sooking up the chimney and the roof creaking I WANT MY MUM :eek:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

lol!!! :rotfl: Oh Mard, you do make me laugh!!! and I want to know too lol!!!

x_Bunny_x wrote: »

they had some at discountuk (owned by poundworld) for £2.99 a month back, but mine said they'd sold out. Also boyes have them

www.boyes.co.uk

i got mine from qvc, they also have them on amazon.

Never been on this thread before.

I really came to moan

I hate it when my neighbour says "it's a lovely day isn't it" to my other neighbour. Then procedes to get into his car wearing a thick puffa jacket coat!. It was because the sun was out, i went out and it was freezing!.

Also the ones who get out their car and run to their house wearing a skirt and high heels. or the ones who have the heating on full, then open the windows because it's too warm!. :eek:

You can tell the ones. they usually go shopping in winter wearing shorts .

Or the ones that see you walking in the same direction their car is travelling it but totally ignore you and pass you by, then send you a xmas card like everythings hunky dory!. Grrr!.

I think half the people don't need to prepare for winter, as they have cars, it's home to car, car to work, work to home, shopping in a car etc etc. its only the people without a car that have to prepare, the rest dont have to bother. then they moan they had to scrape the ice off the car windscreen. diddums!. how about walking in the snow!.

gloves, hats, coats, scarfs, and boots. and people with a car will just go to it in shorts and tshirt. you may disagree, but i have seen people wear very little in cold weather.

Sorry but that is harsh - I have been stuck in snow and ice (in my car) for several hours, forget how many but posted last year, might have been 4, but i had a few supplies with me and was able to supply a car "next door" with a few cigarettes ... If I were to see one of my neighbours walking home I would, and HAVE, offered them a lift home. I think you might have a case of "car jealousy"... Lots of us with cars will help out people without cars.

prepareathome wrote: »

I know so many who use their cars all the time are not prepared but usually they become unstuck in winter one day car breaks down or they are stuck in traffic due to roadworks or accident and they cannot keep the engine on all the time as they would use up their fuel then they wish they had prepared as they freeze. Even in summer - a couple of summers ago there was a crash I think it was on a motorway in NE England and people who were only about 6 miles from home were stuck in boiling hot weather in their cars for many, many hours. One woman said she was only taking her daughter somewhere and had only joined the motorway at the last exit and was getting off at the next and the journey should have only taken about 15mins and was stuck there I think 6 hrs. Emergency services had to take water to them to keep them from collapsing through dehydration, so winter or summer if you are going in your car even a short distance you should prepare as there is no garrantee (spl) your journey will be as short as you expect and anyone who doesn't is just daft.

Kids used to go mad when years ago we would be going somewhere and as we didn't have a car in those days we hired one when we needed one, and I would insist summer or winter on taking coats and maybe a blanket or two just in case, but who knew what might happen, ok never needed them but to me it was plain sense to make preparations for the worst.

dfI think people get a buzz out of going past others trudging along while they are in their cars, makes them feel better than that person, to me its selfishness if they have space - if we are at SM and we met a neighbour who is planning on getting the bus and we have room in car ( small car so shopping very often fills boot and back seat) we always give them a lift home.

Personally, I really don't think that at all... Often I would offer someone a lift but if I don't know them, I won't take the chance for mine and DDs personal safety.

I have never felt "better" than someone trudging along... In fact, whilst many cars might pass them (when trying to cross in pouring rain) I stop.

Just because we have cars, doesn't mean we are callous and don't think about those who don't.

greenbee

Tugrin - have you got your hot water bottles? I've made up my bed with mattress topper and under blanket under the bottom sheet and a top sheet and cellular blanket under the duvet and with two hot water bottles it's lovely and cosy. I can add blankets on top if it gets colder, and more hot water bottles (I have lots for visitors too, and last year over christmas was using 4 myself!) I also have half a dozen pillows as I've been on bed rest a lot this year so that might help with warmth too!

Dustykitten

Just made my hottie for the night greenbee! I have a thick blanket/rug made from recycled wool which I lay over the top of the duvet it is really warm, Mum said it reminded her of when she was a child and her parents would put their coats over the kids in bed after ironing the sheet first for the child to hop in.

I would always give people a lift, stopped a while back in the rain and gave a lift to a teenager who used to live next door. My Mum chooses to use the bus rather than the car in bad weather as it is easier for her to walk out of the close to the main bus route into town. May be it depends on your neighbourhood and how well you all know each other. I would class a day to be lovely if it was sunny however cold it was.

SpikyHedgehog

tugrin wrote: »

Has anyone bought the fleecy sheets from lidls yet - Im just wondering what they are like - I have visions of 'Bri-Nylon' and getting burns on your elbows when you turn over - ony people past a certain age will understand this! I have £Nomoney until Monday and was hoping to get some then if any left - but would like a recommendation from one of you chaps before going (nearest store 13 miles away). I was cold in bed last night and this morning was distinctly chilly getting up so want to maximise bed heat if poss.

I was changing DS2's sheets the other day with the 3rd wet sheets of the week and thought 'If dad or aunty wet the bed, no wonder grandma loved her nylon sheets for the spare bed so!' I used to stay with my grandparents for a week of the summer holidays & the brushed nylon sheets put me off all synthetic fibre sheets to the extent I won't have any sheets other than cotton. Do have poly-cotton duvet covers though.

I've maximised bed heat by getting us all flannelette sheets bigger than the bed - I've got superking sheets for a king size bed, DS1 has king size for a double bed & DS2 does have singles but his bed's a short & narrow single. We've got the sheets doubled so we sleep on one & have another over us & tucked in well to minimise draughts, now all got the thick duvets on (but not snapped on the summer duvets) using hot water bottles (though I've no cover for mine which the boys have, so theirs stay warm all night), wearing fluffy socks from Pr1mark (not DS1 as teenagers are too cool to wear bedsocks ) & pjs, and using cuddly toys . I've got a dog that's about 4 ft long that I tuck up in the bed next to me that helps keep the warmth in & DS2 has cuddly toys stuffed in his bed, DS1 has the cat sleeping on his bed to help keep him warm. I also keep my fleece dressing gown on the end of the bed so I don't have to get up & walk across the room to get it, I can just grab it & pull it round be as I get up.

prepareathome

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I have never felt "better" than someone trudging along... In fact, whilst many cars might pass them (when trying to cross in pouring rain) I stop.

Just because we have cars, doesn't mean we are callous and don't think about those who don't.[/QUOTE]

Please i didn't put it clearly, I didn't mean everyone, I never put I meant some people are like that, and I know its true, have heard people laughing at the supermarket how they saw old Mrs so and so at the bus stop and how they gave her a wave as they went past and they wouldn't like to be her, poor, or couple at bus stop with kids, a dig that if they didn't bother having so many children they could afford a car, so it does happen just not everyone - we have a car and do offer lifts, so no car envy with us, hubby up till 11 years ago was a black taxi driver and would stop and bring neighbours and friends home if weather was bad and not even think about charging them but there have been times he was on his way to pick up a fare and couldn't stop to take someone home and oh boy would words be said about selfish people not bothering with the likes of us etc etc.

I have not intention of starting a war here - just making an observation about some people - not making a dig at you, you seem to have taken it really personally and I am sorry I was not thinking of anyone here at all when i wrote it, just about these people I have heard at supermarkets and other places over the years. Will stick to winter preps related subjects in future

tugrin

Thanks to all who have supplied keeping-bed-warm tips, was actually IN bed when most of them came in so will implement blanket on top tonight nd others that require stripping bed nd building up from the mattress at the w/e!
I have hotties but they go cold - do I need a cover to improve this??
Am trying to train youngest dog to sleep IN the bed all night but she is the proverbial hot-dog herself and has to surface to cool down so she is only intermittently useful.
We sound as if we are going to escape the worst of this weeks weather in East Anglia - thats what you get when you stick out in the sea I suppose (altho not true for the poor folk in SW). Heartfelt hugs and good wishes to everyone suffering- please keep safe you guys.
I have my official 'how's it going so far' meeting with HR and headteacher this AM. As he has only spoken to me once across a crowded room to ask me if everything is OK, I think he could be said to be neglecting his duty of care dont you?
Also got first meeting with a well being counsellor - dont know what to expect with that....

rachbc

weather not to bad at all here - was windy last night but if anything its a smidge warmer when i went out to the chooks than yest.

prepareathome

jamanda wrote: »

Talking about gritting bus routes.... we live on a bus route. Did they grit? Did they heck - they changed the bus route

They do that here, there are two ways out into city from our valley both include very steep hills, so when its really icy buses stop at the top of the hills. So you have to have to get a bus going in totally opposite way from city to another town as its more gentle a series of small hills and then pick up another couple of buses to get into city from that direction. Even if they do get round to gritting the hills they don't chance the buses.

Officially we are on gritting route but last one and last two winters they not got out as far as us before they had to go back and regrit roads further in, it was just cars going along that flattened snow and melted the ice eventually, I have some lovely photos of houses and road all white, actually sent one into council when on phone they told me they had been out and gritted road, but as it hadn't snowed after when they claimed they had my photo proved they were telling porkies.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Then of course it was all the excuses - promised they would come out, still waiting :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

born_blonde

Thundersnow on the way to Scotland.http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2011/12/14/scotland-may-be-hit-by-freak-thundersnow-as-bad-weather-continues-86908-23633709/