Preparing for winter III

Twiceblessed

All the talk of scented candles and wax burners reminded me i had some essential oils in the cupboard. So equipped i decided i could make my own oil burner (my original having gone awol many moons ago). I found a glass, a tealight candle and a shallow plate. Put the essential oil with some water on the plate, tealight in the glass and then proceeded to put the plate on the glass. It was only after the third time that I notice the tealight had extinguised that i realised that a candle wont burn without air! My poor science teachers would have despaired but it made me laugh!

rising_from_the_ashes

Just a thought .... if anyone's struggling for "tools" to put food into / get out of their fire - BBQ tongs etc work great. You may still be able to pick some up cheap in shops selling their summer stuff off cheap at the end of the season. HTH

sydneybean

hi, just a quick one for those who are interested in yankee candles - B&Q sell them now - certainly in the bigger stores - mini warehouse and upwards - not sure what the pricing is like compared to the net but a good place to go and smell them all lol!

rising_from_the_ashes

NualaBuala wrote: »

I am drooling slightly! Don't want to wait for a powercut to try it! Problem is I cleaned out the fire thoroughly and have stuck a pillow and cardboard covered in foil up to keep out the draught and had no intention of unblocking it unless I really needed to. Hmmm, this might count as a need!

:rotfl:Yup, if I could think of anything to do them in, I'd be doing one right now.

Also no reason why they shouldn't work in a chimera .....

They're best put not right on top of a roaring flame IYKWIM (probably the same as the potatos).

Fruball

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Just a thought .... if anyone's struggling for "tools" to put food into / get out of their fire - BBQ tongs etc work great. You may still be able to pick some up cheap in shops selling their summer stuff off cheap at the end of the season. HTH

Thats what I am using. I have a few BBQ tongs (paranoid about touching raw food with the same tongs as cooked) so now one is allocated to the fire And as I don't have a fire basket/grate yet, I have set my fire on an old cake cooling rack

Dustykitten

Frugal enjoy your fire.

Put the heating on for 30 minutes to test all the rads were working. Off again now until it gets really cold.

Operation loft insulation finished! Yeh very happy and it is all tidy and clean up there.

Listed DS3's out grown ski stuff on ebay in the hope that people are starting to get prepared for winter. Hoping to raise enough to buy him new snow boots - he has all the rest of the cold weather stuff he needs.

Ada3050

Hot chocolate banana :j
Made these when I was a cub scout!!!

Next trip for shopping will add a few flakes and bananas and try this, some 30yrs after cub camp:j

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Ohhhhh this has my mouth watering as I've just thought of my favourite "cook on the fire in a power cut" pick me up ........

Roasted bananas with a choc flake in them .... sigh :drool:

If anyone's not tried them all you need to do is:

Get a banana & cut lengthways down the middle
Stick a Flake / Ripple etc bar in
Wrap in tin foil and bung in the fire for a wee while


Also works great on camping fires / BBQs in the summer:)

Note to self: never, ever buy another house without a fire in ever

pollys

I bought a flannelette sheet and pillowcase today for DS3's bed. Will see how they wash and if he likes them will get another set.

Half term next week so a week of preparing planned, looking forward to it.

Pollys x

Fruball

Oooooh look at THIS site for a winter car kit (shovel/glove scraper/brush) for £9.99... That looks good value to me - they have lots of other goodies there too!

SpikyHedgehog

sydneybean wrote: »

hi, just a quick one for those who are interested in yankee candles - B&Q sell them now - certainly in the bigger stores - mini warehouse and upwards - not sure what the pricing is like compared to the net but a good place to go and smell them all lol!

Clinton cards also sell them.

I have 2 super pretty glass burners for the tartlets, 1 Christamssy & 1 flowers, that my boys got me - when we burn the tea light in them with the main lights off, the coloured lights show up on the walls behind them. Smells lovely & looks lovely

Edited to say, the burners aren't from Clinton cards, we have a lovely candle shop in town that most of my mother's day, birthday etc presents seem to come from!