Preparedness for when

richj

fuddle wrote: »

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.

i use a buff and had the same issue, but i found last night if i pull it up the back of my head a bit it kind of tucks under my glasses but stays over my nose but i don't steam up. Will be trying the same trick this morning too.

lillibet_dripping

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

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

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

. :cool:

DOES GQ KNOW:eek::eek::eek:

GreyQueen

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

DOES GQ KNOW:eek::eek::eek:

Ssshhh, I'm trying not to encourage BB in his unwholesome infatuation with me. And I ain't sharing the naughty step with anyone.

We have had a light sprinkling of snow here at Shoebox Towers and a complete dearth of armed police or any ruckus. The last major incident was 16 days ago so we're overdue for another one.

SG to me (via mobile) There are three armed Police outside your flat!
Me to SG I've not done anything! I'm not even at home atm.

nuatha

[QUOTE=GreyQueen;69918158
SG to me (via mobile) There are three armed Police outside your flat!
Me to SG I've not done anything! I'm not even at home atm.[/QUOTE]

Royal Protection Squad?

moneyistooshorttomention

Is so thankful that "drama" round here - at last - gets confined to "something along those lines on tv programmes" from all GQ's comments....:rotfl:

Where's a "whew - that's a relief" smilie when you need one...

It's very "quiet" over here in West Wales GQ if you decide your nerves need a holiday from all that....there's the sound of rain and more rain and yet more rain and the odd dog barking (ie because many people keep them outside over here)....

Havent quite figured out what to do in a more rural area re walks on days where the rain is of an intermittent nature - ie I know how to go out walking in urban setting and dive into a department store or shopping centre or caf! for a drink if there was a rain flurry and resume walking when it stopped - but haven't figured out an alternative here....

Has feeling it boils down to "Get some darn good raingear once my diet has worked - so I can buy some new clothes at last" and carry on walking...and getting drenched...

What can anyone recommend for really good waterproof raincoats - with at least some sort of "style" to them please? I did have a passed on Barbour from my mother once - but it didn't seem to keep out the rain as well as I thought they were supposed to...

GreyQueen

Last time I was in your neck of the woods was a few years ago with a group of pals. We ended up the middle ofAberystwyth at 1 am on a Saturday morning. Not to be recommended.

The we got to our YHA hostel and the chap in our party (a drug rehabiltation nurse) realised that his dorm-mate was coming down off heroin. Then, a couple of days later, we were in Cardiff YHA which was deserted but for us and two groups. A bunch of holy-rollers from Lunnon Town who were into having bible meetings and speaking in tongues very loudly, even at midnight. And the other group was a thirty-something worker chivving a bunch of lads with eyes like p hole in the snow who might as well have worn tee-shirts saying I am a youth offender.

Overheard in the corridor late at night, after several hours of them banging in and out of their dorm every few seconds was the worker challenging them about having just taken some more heroin.

The only staff were a couple of youngsters from Eastern Europe and the kitchen was a filth pit with one of the two sinks blocked by cooked rice, as in about a pound or two of the stuff.

Felt like writing to the YHA and saying that if I wanted to stay in a bail hostel, there was one in my own neighbourhood, I didn't have to travel and pay for the privelege...............:rotfl:

Thank gawd Wales has great scenery and great people or the trip would have been a dead loss.:D

ETA nuatha, I was 30 miles away, they'll be sacked if they don't do better than that. It was all for a neighbour who was running amok with a knife threatening to kill another neighbour. I mean, the other guy irritates me as well, but the response was disproportionate, imo.

pineapple

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Havent quite figured out what to do in a more rural area re walks on days where the rain is of an intermittent nature - ie I know how to go out walking in urban setting and dive into a department store or shopping centre or caf! for a drink if there was a rain flurry and resume walking when it stopped - but haven't figured out an alternative here....

Well I live in a very rural area which paradoxically is the noisiest place I've ever lived in. That's because many of my neighbours are farmers which means a constant procession of tractors., hay wagons, quads, agricultural deliveries.... And barking collies!
Anyhow what to do with spare time is not a problem. I have to go 20 miles to buy a pair of knickers !!!!!! so I spend half my time online ordering stuff and the other half driving somewhere to get it. :mad:

mardatha

I've frequently been out in weather so cold that the hair in your nostrils freezes, that's why I said wear a scarf and keep your mouth open
same here pineapple!

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl:Tell me about it Pineapple:rotfl: - re time taken to do some things. My record to date is about 4 days worth of time in total to do something that previously took me about 3 hours worth of time (ie a minor medical procedure).

Going to the dentist = well...I could go to one here...but get on a bus and go to one rather further afield (ie because they have the sort of procedures I'm used to and the attitude that "Patient knows best and will decide for themselves" that I am used to).

Wishes I was someone who could read whilst travelling on a bus without it making me feel slightly "off"...

I am getting the "extra time spent on basics" thing more under control and I'll admit that means a rather higher proportion of my shopping is getting done on Amazon these days.

Having said that - if I wanted more "craft" type stuff - there is a LOT of very good craft stuff readily for sale round here (think it's down to lots of women sitting indoors of a winter wondering what to do - and the fact that a lot of artistic type people move here combined). Anyone looking for craft stuff type to sell on elsewhere in Britain could do a lot worse than coming here checking it out...

ivyleaf

MITSTM I see these people at a craft show we visit every year and I love their jackets and coats - not cheap though!

http://www.carryonclothing.co.uk/

but gorgeous. They have wonderful colours.