make do and mend for tougher times

GreyQueen

DawnW wrote: »

I hope nobody minds my asking, but I have noticed that a number of posters have 'C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z' in their signatures. What does this mean please?

It means this:

anyone fancy signing up to the 'conspiracy researchers and preppers really oldstyle loonies living zombie challenge' (C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z for short)?

If you wander over to the other OS thread called Preparedness for when the SHTF and look at the second post, it has a linkie to post 1625 of that thread which was when we responded to some leg-pulling by setting up C....... it's a running gag, nothing sinister.:rotfl:Or serious.

bluebag

Just read up above here, the stark reminder that the clocks go back soon.... then it's all dark early isn't it ? humphh! I hate that.

Real here in the face winter from that point.

Popperwell

the_cake wrote: »

Yup, another vest-wearer here! M & S do really nice plain ones which are long enough to keep the kidneys kosy ... will be keeping mine on till (the?) may is out next year. (I will be changing it to wash it from time to time in case you were wondering!)
Hugs to all (including animals) who are under the weather with horrible lurgies - never known so much of it about. xxxthe cakexxx

I have five sets a mixture of long johns, long/short sleeve vests(all thermal) for the reasons you say...that I can wash some and still have some to wear and I try to only use the washer once every couple of weeks so there is a full load...otherwise I would be handwashing or using the washer too much...hopefully they will last me years. Chances are I'll go before my small wardrobe of clothes are worn out and most is from the charity shops now.

Chipps

Is it just in the UK that people don't dress for the weather? A Slovakian friend posted a link on fb last year to an article written by an Italian woman who was wondering why (some) people here don't wear coats or appropriate clothing for cold weather. She commented on it that she had also noticed the same & didn't know why either.

I'm over 40 (well, over 50!!!) so wrap up well in cold weather - I'm not so bothered about being cool that I want to freeze!

Popperwell

My area is rekowned for people wearing skimpy clothes on what seem like cold nights, It was like that in Durham City a few weeks ago and it was mainly females in fact I found the city was more of women in the pubs/clubs than men...don't know what that means.
I am out of that scene...

Pooky

I do love a vest......and thermal socks......and I love scarves....and gloves......and hoods.

Basically I just love this time of year!

My DDs both feel the cold so always dress well for the weather, they're the teenagers telling their friends to do their coats up and dishing out the spare gloves they keep in their bags.

Cheapskate

Hello all, lots of love/hugs etc to those (an ever-increasing number, it seems) with poorliness/feeling bad/trouble with loved ones, I often feel sad that I can't see you all in person to hug you for real! :kisses3:

I signed up to pinterest ages ago, but have wandered onto it properly today after seeing everyone's comments - I'm completely besotted with it! Think I've found one or two of you, if anyone's willing to pm their pinterest (or even fbk) name, it would be lovely to see what interests you all have - although I suspect I'll spend even more time on here! Ssshh, don't tell DH - he wonders what I talk to you all about as it is! After seeing so much loveliness on pinterest, I feel better mentally than I've done for a while, so thank you so much - see, you're so much better than pills, and free as well! :rotfl:

Half my fbk friends post real, interesting things, the others it's all a bit Hello or Ok, IYKWIM - not my cup of a tea. What I find useful is keeping in touch with far-flung rellies and friends - can send them photos of the littlies instantly, that alone is worth a mint.

Interesting about vit d - never thought about it, but that's one of the things dr has put down in blood tests, wonder what it'll show. Could it be partially to blame for how carp I feel all the time?

Sorry, think I'm waffling again, will go away quietly!

A xo

fuddle

Popperwell wrote: »

My area is rekowned for people wearing skimpy clothes on what seem like cold nights, It was like that in Durham City a few weeks ago and it was mainly females in fact I found the city was more of women in the pubs/clubs than men...don't know what that means.
I am out of that scene...

At a certain age (30's) I think men generally prefer banter, a few pints in a local, propping up a bar watching sport. Women (generally as I'm 33 and have been out of the scene since 23/24) still need that flirty let down at the weekend. A good time is still a night on the tiles being loud and leary for many women round here. I wonder if it's an attention/confidence thing.

:rotfl: lying here listening to DH lecturing the girls about only using 2 pieces of toilet paper "unless you've got a really pooey bum". It's really very funny

I have 3 thermal vests. Enough I think. is it dirty to wear them twice before washing. I don't know vest etiquette My only problem would be vestibuled up to go work in the dining hall, red hot but ten so cold on yard duty and the walk home.

Pm'd you cheaps with fb/pin details.

GreyQueen

Chipps wrote: »

Is it just in the UK that people don't dress for the weather? A Slovakian friend posted a link on fb last year to an article written by an Italian woman who was wondering why (some) people here don't wear coats or appropriate clothing for cold weather. She commented on it that she had also noticed the same & didn't know why either.

I'm over 40 (well, over 50!!!) so wrap up well in cold weather - I'm not so bothered about being cool that I want to freeze!

I think we must be known all over the world as the daft burgers who can't dress for the cold. Knew a lass from St Petersburg in Russia who was astounded when out and about in winter seeing the nightclub girlies out in a couple of straps and a scarf on a night of subzero temperatures. She was wearing high boots and a warm skirt. And she wasn't some babushka but a beautiful young woman of about 30 and very stylish, too.

A few years back, I woke to a day where there was 3 cm of snow lying and more coming down and I had to hike a mile or three. So I put on my warm clothes, topped with my almost-ankle length black wool coat, scarf, gloves, hiking boots for the tread and a fun-fur hat. Was toasty on streets full of shivering fools. Can remember coming face-to-face with a stranger woman on the street who was wearing the exact same ensemble (different fun-fur hat tho) and we exhanged a grin of recognition.:cool:

That afteroon (it'd snowed all day) I saw a silly young woman go base-over-apex on one of our steepest streets. She was wearing tall boots with 4 inch stiletto heels. On a day which had started snowy, so it wasn't like she'd been caught out.

The roads were virtually impassable to traffic as some parts of Provincial City are steep and a lot of private drivers can't hack even a little snow and the bus company panics at first sight of a snowflake and takes the buses back to the depot. Which meant that a lot of people suddenly found themselves afoot and having to walk several miles home or stump for a taxi. And they weren't all sensibly-shod, of course.

So, vests and sturdy footwear and YaxtTrax or something similar. Last month I was over the parents' place and was sorting out their warm kit and making sure they knew where their YaxTrax were (present from me last winter). Falling and busting a limb is going to compromise your lifestyle a lot more than a severe cold.

ETA, Fuddle, you heed your Auntie Mar and get socked up toute de suite. Could a gilet be a help to make the transition from the dinner hall to the playground more bearable?

mardatha

I found out about vitD over on FluTrackers which is full of medical personnel. They said nobody north of Paris has enough sunshine to make enough in their systems naturally. The standard recommended dose of 400 iu was set in the 1920s to prevent rickets in children (!!) and that's all it does.. far far too low.
Annie I have far posher nets than you - pity they're grey LOL
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80160202/
I have to say fuddle, that one year I had no boots and my only pair of shoes let in. I wore them to work through snow for a month and then got pneumonia and pleurisy. WEAR YER SOCKS woman LOL!