Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

xmas is here.

:beer: Good stuff. Wouldn't like to think of the Mardy household snowed in with only teabags, porridge and chocolate for sustenance.

westcoastscot

It's snowing on and off here - the boat is off today, back to fishing tomorrow and then off christmas eve due to gales forecast, then back out on boxing day again - well that's the plan anyway.

Glad your christmas arrived Mar, I love that episode of the good life! I've settled back in again now - hopefully my washing machine is being delivered tomorrow - going to bake etc in case tuesday is bad. Can always use my dutch oven in the fire for the chicken & kilties if necessary though.

Hope everyone gets home safely to wherever they're travelling on christmas eve,

WCS

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Just had hail up here.

Buggalugs is pacing around, looking to be fed.

She seems to think that, because I'm at home today, she entitled to an extra meal.

Goldiegirl

mardatha wrote: »

Lots of great posts, am enjoying reading them all Good idea re going into seige mode for a month around xmas, think I will do that next year.
I hate xmas, totally and absolutely, but I love the idea of the solstice and the light returning - and I love New Year. This year I found myself getting quite down, a mix of the weather and the greed that's all around just now.
Any Scots in the thread please get ready for this big storm on the 24th, the weather forum is getting seriously concerned about it. All the ladies on there are cooking their turkeys tonight/tomorrow morning in case the power goes off.
Also anybody down south coming home for xmas - heavy snow up north now, blizzards, roads closed and snow gates closed all over the place. Add that to this storm and you get chaos.

We kind of go into a siege mode at Christmas.


We call it the 'Festive Bunker'. We'll go out early tomorrow to pick up our turkey, and then once we get home we'll seal the door of the bunker, and in theory we could stay in until the New Year without seeing anyone else.


In practice, we hope to unseal the door to go out for a walk or two, and we'll go to the local shopping centre (not Bluewater) on the 26th, as I want to look at jumpers / hats / gloves etc. I also have to go to work on the 27th. But apart from that we'll be in our bunker, locked away from the world until 2nd January! I love it!


The weather forecast is looking very interesting. As far as I can make out, we will have endless rain tomorrow, with even worse rain Monday to Tuesday night, plus high winds.


At least it won't be snow here, but all that precipitation falling as the white stuff plus drifting in the wind, doesn't sound good at all

GreyQueen

Goldiegirl, my wider family is forting up for the seige of Christmas. Mum currently baking up a storm, tomorrow they go out for the last provisions inc the order at the butcher.

Christmas eve morning they fetch Nan to theirs'. I have to work then go over to them in the evening, and then it's pretty much a lock-down until 27th. I have to work 30th and 31st or I'd be quite happily locked down with them.

Dad said he's got me some wee bottles of Stella.......top bloke.

Bob, Buggalugs must have been taking a leaf our of one of the previous family cat's books. He was a wily old stray we'd rehomed and at one point, when there were four workers in the household, each getting up at different times, he managed to con four breakfasts daily until we cottoned on to the sudden decrease in catfood and started talking to each other about who was feeding him in the morning.

Cats - they'll survive just about anything. Plus they eat more in winter, I'm sure of it.

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I see they're predicting filthy weather (high winds and torrential rain), over the next few days.

Time to double check the emergency equipment and provisions, methinks.

GreyQueen

:eek: Don't forget the cat food!

DawnW

Loving the idea of a Christmas siege, but it isn't going to happen. Our 3 children are all married now with children of their own, and the whole lot are poised to descend on us like a swarm of locusts to eat Mum's cooking and drink Dad's beer :rotfl:(well, no beer for the little ones ).

OH has just fetched the turkey, we have dragged the Xmas tree in its pot in from the front garden in between rainstorms, and lit the woodburner. I have made mince pies and prised the remaining ones from the grasp of OH and my brother, who is here for Christmas, and put them safely away. I swear they would eat the whole lot in one go :mad:

I have a few more bits of shopping to do either tomorrow evening (I have to work all day tomorrow :() or early Christmas eve, Then that is it. Off to DD1's on Christmas eve, then we have probably 5 for lunch on Christmas day, and 14 for Boxing Day :eek:

Still have sausage rolls, a gateau and trifle to make, presents to wrap, the tree to decorate (when I am sure it is dry enough for the fairy lights :rotfl:), and 101 other things to do though!

But definitely no more shopping after those last few food bits until well after the big day. Not bothering with the sales as we honestly don't need anything

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GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: Don't forget the cat food!

Already taken care of.

Got two full bags of Webbox Cat Stars, and 10 cans of Tesco cat food in gravy.

TBH. I'm not too bothered about bad weather, or even power cuts.

The only thing that would really bother me is, days without t'interent.

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DawnW wrote: »

(when I am sure it is dry enough for the fairy lights :rotfl:)