Preparedness for when

pineapple

This was in the Independent today - perhaps we can take it a bit more seriously than certain tabloids.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grit-and-bear-it-the-beast-from-the-east-set-to-return-bringing-icy-temperatures-and-snow-to-whole-country-as-britain-gets-set-for-big-freeze-8446045.html

I've ordered some more solid fuel and pet food (don't forget our furry friends!)

mardatha

Still stuck in murky mucky hill fog here

parsonswife8

mardatha wrote: »

Still stuck in murky mucky hill fog here

Eat sweeties! Happy New Year.:)

mardatha

Oh god maybe I should buy a sweetie stash - wotif the SHTF now and I'm caught without any?? OMG this is a worry !

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Still stuck in murky mucky hill fog here

You and most of the country inc me, socked in with chilly fog the whole darned day. Temp started to drop yestereve and it's now about right for the time of year.

I took Jiffy trolley to the supermarket and was beyond glad that I did as I was able to take advantage that a box of 6 x 1 litre semi skimmed UHT milks work out at 11p cheaper than bought separately. I bought 2 boxes = 3 weeks' supply. 12 kg is not what you want dragging off your arms.

They're dated until May although were sharing shelf-space with ones dated April although I'm long since wised-up to this and always check now. Perhaps that's a visual clue if you like; preppers always want to know the dates.

To anyone with a combi-style gas central heating boiler, can I issue you with a little heads-up ahead of the expected freeze-up, assuming that you didn't encounter this in Dec 2010?

Your boiler has something called a condensate pipe which exits out of the wall to outside. If it freezes the boiler will shut itself down. This caused a world of hurt in our city back in the last freeze. A gas engineer told me that there were so many with this fault that they didn't have time to thaw them out and had to resort to cutting them off with hacksaws to get the boiler up again.

You may want to cuddle your condensate pipe up with a bit of insulation round about now, just in case.

I'm reading a brill book I got for £1 in the second hand shop called A Place in the Woods by Helen Hoover about how she and her hubs decided life as apartment dwellers and professional people in Chicago of 1955 had palled and chucked in their jobs to go live in a cabin in the snowy woods of North Minnesota.

Totally awesome. At least we won't have bears trying to get into our kitchen thru the trapdoor from the cellar where they'd managed to climb in. And the snow will likely be in inches rather than feet. All things are proportionate.

Mind you, the river in my city has frozen solid in living memory. People were driving on it.

grandma247

Gq three years ago I got up to find water dripping on the worktop from the boiler and I don't know how but I worked out that it was backing up from the pipe outside and that it was frozen.

I had to stand out there ages with my hair dryer on it to thaw it and then wrapped it in tea towels and plastic bags. it has never happened since but it is still wrapped.

pennib

And I've just bought a book called 'Spade among the rushes' by Margaret Leigh. About a lady who describes her attempts to transform a deserted croft in the Highlands of Scotland into a home and to get the wilderness growing again.
Smirisary is the location. Was during the war years. Havn't read it yet but a quick flick through and it seems promising. I got the book from E*bay, Mardatha might be interested?

maryb

Thought I'd get a bit of extra milk to stash in the freezer in case I can't get out in bad weather and hit the motherlode in Waitrose. I shell out the extra for Duchy milk as I prefer my milk not homogenised and it's normally £1.79 or 2 for£3. They had a whole load reduced to £1.25 for 4 pints and you still get the 29p per bottle reduction for buying 2.

So enough milk to see me through till the thaw is now safely residing in my freezer

mardatha

Have ordered it fr Amazon at 17p ty ty - although Moidart is probly milder than here, it looks like a great read thanks!

siegemode

Hi, havn't caught up in a few days but have just seen this on another forum. Can't wait to try out my christmas boots with special grips but not looking forward to the dire temperatures.

Weather Action

Piers Corbyn has been almost 100% right with his long range weather forcasts ill guess we will just have to wait and see...http://www.weatheraction.com/display....asp?a=512&c=5

Also here...http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...ther-predicted
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