Preparedness for when

the_cake

Satnav is the devil!! Can't believe the amount of people who rely on it 100% - we don't have one (MIGHT get one, as can see they are brilliant in a city you don't know - or might carry on borrowing one for those rare forays ...), and even if we did, I would still have a paper map in the car as well. I like to know where I am going in relation to other places, plus I like maps anyway.

boultdj

My crap-nav was an unwanted birthday present by a gadget mad Dad & OH, told the pair of 'em I'd rather use a map[goes off grubblin' how THEY! never listen to me] ....

mcjordi

just about to go put some cheese and bacon crispbakes in the oven for dinner. its mighty chilly out there.
have plenty in the freezer and cupboards still but down to my last 4 pint of milk lol.
hope the local shop has some in...

craigywv

glad you didntlaugh at my buying stuff off myself meansalot knowing i not totally crackers, still joining the words up here I WILL LEARN!!! laughed at the name crap nav have never heard of that ...then again i dont have a sat nav....car ancient lucky it came withround wheels.Love your map making project GQ aand LYNN i laughed at docky being a skelington!..bored today as i didnt get up tomums house but roads not too good here. 900 peeps without electric on the coast not too far away from me hope they get sorted out soon................................nightmare i keep thinking about my freezers what if that had ben me aaaaaaaaah . i would like to make something today, be it baking or craft i dont know away to shift legs into gear and get this house cleaned xxx

rachbc

vanoonoo wrote: »

my toes are cold

heat holder socks. THE. BEST. SOCKS. EVER.

Mine are only cheap primark ones but are amazing.

Hollyberry

Fortunately we don't have a bat-nav. I maintain that OH would fuse it with his love of detours - "I said turn RIGHT! :eek: No, RIGHT you fool!" - and so we've stuck to paper maps in the car. Like the idea of laminating the key bits.

We have been fairly smugly settled during the snow. The only thing we haven't got in copious quantities is washing powder - definitely one for my "doh!" list, but we'll manage until we can get out easily. If necessary, it's about a 5 minute slither to the nearest shop, which is likely to be stocked still.

We may have to dig out on Monday, as MIL's loo seat is collapsing, and there is no one nearer to help. Apart from about 300 metres at each end, it's all A roads, so I'm happy to give it a go. Will remember to stock up the car accordingly.

Thanks for the recommendation on those heat holder socks. I definitely need some of those - my toes are decidedly chilly, and I've been wrapping my feet in a fleece blanket at night to get them warm enough for me to go to sleep. And that's with the house really toasty!

Confuzzled

pineapple wrote: »

Just got a batch proving. At the mo I'm experimenting. I read somewhere you should handle the dough as little as possible so you don't knead it and should aim at no more than 4 minutes for the mixing (I don't use a bread maker).
It's always going to be denser than white bread but omg what a delicious nutty flavour when toasted.
If it goes belly up, I can always use it as rocks for self defence! :rotfl:

perhaps also as building material, you could built a shelter with it or something, left over porridge sets like concrete so you could use that for the mortar between your spelt 'bricks'

all's quiet on the eastern front today, it's a greyish day but the sunlight is bouncing off the snow so it feels reasonably bright. forcast says more snow tonight and from the looks of the sky i'm inclined to agree

my daughter is out playing in the snow with her dad, she'll be glad of that soup i made when she gets home later this afternoon. she was supposed to be with me today but wanted to play with him at the park, when i suggested that she just stay with him another night she said 'no mum, i want to come home to you because you always do all the right things to make me toasty and warm after i've been out in the snow' aww bless

pineapple

The woman at the end has form for venturing out in her car when the rest of us are playing safe. She invariably comes to grief then plays the little woman expecting the usual 'good neighbours' to come to her rescue.
I saw her slithering past this morning and promptly closed my Hilda Ogden nets.
I am not going out. Repeats: I am not going out!
No more Mrs Nice Guy - could be my new sig line

missrlr

Well we cleared the path outside our house, no other like minded community spirited people on this road!
All good here but little T0sc0 bereft of most stuff, unbelievable!

thriftwizard

Oh good grief! Two of my more clueless friends are squawking on FB about having run out of food & fuel; both live in "delightful" rural cottages & commute to work & are furious to find their windy little lanes haven't been gritted. Again... They were happy enough to have a "snow day" yesterday (both are teachers) but not so happy to be denied their "recreational" trip to the supermarket today.

If you want to live in glorious seclusion, surrounded by "wildife" (i.e. things your financier hubby likes to shoot, under other circumstances) you have to be prepared!