Preparing for winter III

mummyyof5

Hope you lovely people on here dont mind if I just jump on your thread to wish TOOTS A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY XXXXX

I will leave quietly now and Thank you xx

greenval

I've just spent an hour with my head stuffed up the chimney:eek: but it was for a good reason, honest. I live in an old cottage with two rooms knoked through into one. Front fireplace has a gas fire in it but the back one is a big cavernous inglennook type hole with no fire in it ( and can't afford one at present):(
It now has 3 charity bags full of polystyrene balanced on a piece of old plywood and supported by two old broom handles.As this is all up the chimney you can't see it from the room. Hope fully this will result in less heat loss and less wind down the chimney.:j
I just hope Santa has one of those 'special keys' for the door or all my hard work will go to waste;)

adelight

I've got my eyes on the ski gear coming into Lidl on thursday, would love one of the ski jackets and a "performance" top (thin fitted fleece). They'll also have dirt cheap mens boots in! The heated mattress pad is tempting but I know I can get away without it. I think I just want it because I've been feeling the cold badly the last few days. It's 18c inside but i'm still freezing in ski socks, fleece joggers, two tops and hoodie.
I'm going to Lidl tomorrow and praying I can get some of the stuff that came in thursday as they had trail running shoes and tops.

I bought loads off the body shop website today; £96 worth of stuff for £35 including xmas bits for mum and OH, sister's bday(feb but still...), some intensive hand/face creams to pop in my bag when it's really cold and some body butters and hand creams that i'll save for last minute xmas pressies if i miss anyone out or a secret santa comes up.

tugrin

Cor blimey, trying to strim half a lawn (or at least as far as the 40 feet cable would allo) is not only cream crackering its daft - half the lawn now looks like a very badly mown hay field!!!
Still at least that part is short enough not to soak my feet in the a.ms taking the dogs out for an early morning wee.
Massive bag of apples from neighbour left on doorstep - so more baking and preserving tomorrow. FOund some good things in the OS threads so maybe do something a bit different.
Looks like another clear night tonight so temp will plummet again and may have to do a top up with electric rad.- after all it is the weekend!!

Sunflower1227

Hi everyone :wave:

Long time lurked on this thread, love it and all the ideas you have come up with.

Well today, on one of the hottest days in October for years, I bought a snow shovel!!! :rotfl:

It was a bargain, reduced to £6.99 form £10.99 :j

ZsaZsa

Can anyone help? I bought some of the reflective sunshades and fitted them behind our radiator,but because the gap is so small they are just wedged in and are touching the surface. I'm guessing this will be quite dangerous and am too worried to put the heating on with them in place. Is it dangerous or am I over-worrying?

HelenYorkshire

Hmm. Are they lightly resting against the surface or just brushing it? If the latter, can you use anything to wedge them away from the heater - a dried bean or a bead or buttons or something??

darkrev

Katkin wrote: »

Winter prep almost sorted now, but have a question. I've stuck sliver car sunscreens behind all my radiators using bluetak but they keep falling down. I've cut the ones that reached so that they hang over the radator fixings but need them to lie flat against the wall so that I can tuck curtains behind them (or hand wahsing on to dry). How can I get them to stay on?

On another note I've completely blown my budget today cos of this thread. Feeling slightly sick as I've just bought all weather tyres for the snow. Lets just say they were very very expensive _pale_.

Off to Lanzarote next week for the first holiday abroad in 6 years. So putting off the rest of the prep until I get back. Hoping for good weather there. Winter clothes can come out when I get back.

Thanks for all the tips. They are great.

K xx

re radiator reflectors........drawing pins or pin board pins ?

Lucy5781

singlestep wrote: »

I'm not big on interpreting weather charts but this does not look promising towards the 17th October:

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php

Hopefully, it'll change for the better nearer the time!

Looks even worse for the 23rd........

chirpychick

My_Feet_Hurt wrote: »

Chirpychic,

I was at a boot sale last weekend. It was on the dual carriage outside Reading on the way to Basingstoke. There was a stall there selling a Christmas pudding teapot. I didn`t see a price, but it caught my eye and I wish I had bought it now lol just to sell on. I see you live around Hampshire and wondered if the person who gave you the box of boot sale goodies was the same person selling the teapot last week. Possible proof of `it`s a small world` lol.

xx

lol it is possible i suppose but we arent really anywhere near reading and the person we got it from even further next time though i bet you wont walk past :rotfl: