Preparedness for when

fuddle

All the warm air is terrible for us glasses wearers too. If it wasn't the snow in my face it was my glasses condensed with the air coming out of my scarf.

GreyQueen

pineapple wrote: »

A fun plonker look maybe...:rotfl:
(says Pineapple who possesses a wool hat with ear flaps and dangly bobbles. Oh the shame.....)

I care not. Loadsa people wear trapper hats in this city. And I had a hat just like you've described. In my defense, I was a young child at the time and it was the early 1970s, not a happy time to have someone else choosing one's headgear.:p

ETA; fuddle, came back in again about 20 mins ago, and my glasses fogged totally, such is the differential between my snug little burrow and the great outdoors atm. There have even been spitty bits of snow! I shall wake up like a kiddo in the morning, peering around the curtains looking for the white stuff.

Errr, should clarify I mean snow. The other white stuff is rather expensive and my neighbours don't tend to leave it lying around outside. Unless it's for a pick-up. Dunno why someone figures hiding it in the shrub bed and having a Beemer with 4 yoofs drive up at speed to collect it is somehow approriately-furtive.

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl:I thought so...and you've just rather confirmed it GQ:rotfl:.

That is re an incident back in my last area where I caught a young lad (who did look rather "out of it", despite his private school uniform he was wearing) searching and searching in a nearby shrub for something-or-other.

Don't know what he might or might not have found (judging by his demeanour - didn't being the operative word). Of course that then had me peering very suspiciously through said shrub to see what was going on a bit later - and emerged with a £5 note that had been dropped?/left? there:).

I did have suspicions already about possible drug drop-off point elsewhere in my locality and was wondering just why a new empty suitcase seemed to have been carefully hidden. By coincidence - it was Dustbin Day time shortly after I spotted that.....;)...and it "might" just have vanished in the dustbin lorry:).

You have (much) more experience of these sorta things (courtesy of Shoebox Towers) than I do. Do ya' think these two little incidents were what I think they were iyswim?;)...and I had just "spiked their guns" a bit...

GreyQueen

Most likely, MTSTM. As long as the bad guys don't see you doing it.

Some of the nitwits around here haven't twigged that the grannies up on the tower have binoculars sometimes (SG certainly has). It's amazing what an observant granny with a pair of binos and a telephone can do about local drug problems.

As SG has been known to remark, with a twinkle in her eye I'm just a little old lady, what do I know?!

If said in the presence of the Polis it causes much hilarity, as SG knows plenty.

ivyleaf

Frugalsod wrote: »

I might be wrong but I think eskimos breath in through the mouth and out through the nose. Something about not cooling nose and the recapture of body heat by the nostrils from the expelled air.

I remember one very cold winter when we were living in Belgium; it was so cold that it hurt to breathe through one's nose. A scarf over nose and mouth, as Mardatha suggests, was definitely the way to go.

It was January 1979, I think.

moneyistooshorttomention

GreyQueen wrote: »

Most likely, MTSTM. As long as the bad guys don't see you doing it.

Some of the nitwits around here haven't twigged that the grannies up on the tower have binoculars sometimes (SG certainly has). It's amazing what an observant granny with a pair of binos and a telephone can do about local drug problems.

As SG has been known to remark, with a twinkle in her eye I'm just a little old lady, what do I know?!

If said in the presence of the Polis it causes much hilarity, as SG knows plenty.

Hmmm....there ya' go then...didn't think 'twas innocent.

I was already SO planning on borrowing SuperGran's favourite phrase of "I'm just a little old lady......" once I get to old age:). I qualify for the "little" already...so once the second word gets added into the equation...then...:) and a pair of binoculars is still on my "Sometime I must get...." list. After all - there are lots of birds round here and I've had some instruction on how to use said binoculars to study them more closely since coming here...;)

It will add to my repertoire of subtle sabotage I've been going in for to date re that...

calicocat

Where I work they have very furtive means of getting drugs.


The latest, is to set off fire alarm...staff all generally busy checking that out. .....get mate to launch a sock with a stone in the bottom (plus drugs obviously) over high fencing and into garden or courtyard.


The less bothered, just shove it through the windows in front of all to see.

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nuatha wrote: »

The jump starter which died was one of these

I have something similar, which I keep in the house, and charge on a regular basis.

It's to keep my laptop and MiFi Dongle running, in the event of a power cut.

Provided the mobile phone system keeps running, I'll be able to stay on the net for hours. :cool:

greenbee

ivyleaf wrote: »

I remember one very cold winter when we were living in Belgium; it was so cold that it hurt to breathe through one's nose. A scarf over nose and mouth, as Mardatha suggests, was definitely the way to go.

It was January 1979, I think.

Thanks. Good advice. Weather forecast for Canada is pretty much 'freezing the hairs in your nostrils' or colder...

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Provided the mobile phone system keeps running, I'll be able to stay on the net for hours. :cool:

That's nice. GQ won't get lonely on the naughty step... :cool:

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greenbee wrote: »

Weather forecast for Canada is pretty much 'freezing the hairs in your nostrils' or colder...

It's been Brass Monkey weather round here, too.