Preparing for winter III

muffin_man_7

Eenymeeny wrote: »

I'm sure that I could grow rice at the bottom of our garden it's so flooded! I have never known it be so wet! and yet there's all this talk of water butts and hosepipe bans.
I suppose that I was watering newly planted things in February... Please, whoever is doing that rain dance give us a break!
Taking the opportunity to mark flooded areas to install better drainage when, and if!, it ever stops. We did have a bit of frozen land during the winter...

Thanks Eenymeeny thats a good idea about the flooded areas in the garden ourback garden is really slippery when we get lots of rain too much clay in the soil = no drainage when we get lots of rain need to do something not sure what thanks for the reminder

sparrer

The heating is on in the evenings til my 'Age Concern' (as was) thermometer tells me it's safe to turn it down/off. Pleased I haven't taken the bubble wrap off the windows or unblocked the 'draughty bits' yet.

On a positive note - we can find one if we look hard enough - last week we flew back into Stansted and the co-pilot pointed out a couple of almost empty reservoirs. That was just two of how many hundreds, so now I can understand the reason for the hosepipe ban

MandM90

I'm wondering if some sort of suspension rail would hold a curtain above my front door which seems to be a bit drafty. I'm loathe to drill one in and have to have a curtain (or at least the rail) there all the time.

I'm in bed right now. Too cold to sit at my desk and work, yet seems silly to turn the heating on at this time of year!

Eenymeeny

muffin_man_7 wrote: »

Thanks Eenymeeny thats a good idea about the flooded areas in the garden ourback garden is really slippery when we get lots of rain too much clay in the soil = no drainage when we get lots of rain need to do something not sure what thanks for the reminder

We've actually lifted a paving slab and dug out as much mud as we can manage at the moment. (It fills up with water as soon as it rains which shows how much water is in the soil! Like you, we have heavy clay soil which actually cracks in the summer! I poured soil down those cracks last summer to try to help but apparently the answer is to dig a big hole or trench at the lowest point and fill it with small stones, gravel etc to make a soakaway. We have a lot of hard landscaping in the gardens either side of us so we reap the 'benefit'
PS. Aerating the lawn might help too... 'progg' (a good old Geordie word!) it with a fork all over and pour sand down the holes. A job reserved for when it's less muddy though!

parsonswife8

There's rain due here every day until neeexxttt Sunday. We need it desperately due to almost empty reservoirs, but it gets a bit depressing tbh.
:(:(
Had wanted to go away, but seems a bit pointless. May as well stay in the comfort of our own home for now and go away in a few weeks' time.

quintwins

hi just just bumping this up to ask a wee question that i'm sure one (or all of you) can help me with.

I just moved into a new house, however my bedroom curtains are abit thin, i'm sure i saw somewhere that you can connect 2 curtains together with the loops in header tape? how would i go about this?

I don't wanna start taking my curtains apart as there shop bought and match my bedding, so i had planned to just connect some hemmed fleece onto the back of them until it warms up, since they have red in them and i have a redundant red ikea fleece lying about anyway, any suggestions?

lizzyb1812

The easiest way I've found to do this is to use safety pins. Lay the curtain flat with the header tape stretched out. Pin the fleece to the header tape only without going through the actual curtain material. Regather the header tape and rehang the curtains.

Or don't ungather the header tape - you may not be able to in purchased curtains - and use the safety pins to hook the fleece to the loops in the header tape.

quintwins

oh that will work and i have a big tub of safety pins thank you that was a nice free solution i might even pin them into the sides to stay in place aswell, i'll just make sure to only go threw the hem.


What i seen was 2 header tapes joined togeter, i like this better as it involves less sewing.

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I am not putting my winter woolies away and I am sowing extra cabbages as they will cope with cold and wet

smeeth

I wonder when the new thread for this winter will start!

Definitely going to get started early this year!

Loved this thread, so much help!

Thanks all!:D