Preparedness for when

Goldiegirl

2TJust wondering if you have any thoughts on what the weather is likely to be like in London next Tuesday 12th February?

I have an outside activity booked for that date.

My husband's cousin is 60 on that day and he wanted to do something different for his birthday ...... So a group of us are climbing the roof of the O2 Arena (the Dome) !!

It's not as scary as it sounds - there are steps and we will be attached by cable.

It seemed like a good idea when we booked, but I'm beginning to wonder about the wisdom of all this!

I'm just hoping it'll be a nice day.... I don't really want to be doing it in a snowstorm

fuddle

hunters wrote: »

anyone watching the Mary Berry Story what a lovely childhood she had, apart from the polio of course and loosing her son but it's a delightful story.

Yeah, I am. I'm enjoying it. Doesn't she look great.

GreyQueen

Wow, a double date with Ozzy and Sharon, there's an image to conjure with.

I was wondering, would the petrol/ diesel you use be imported too? I'm guessing it would be coming in by tanker? I was wondering how long it would take people to run out if the ports were blocked.

Scary scary times. I find myself wondering how bad things will get here in the UK as cuts bite down ever harder, the social safety net is being frayed and costs of everything go up.

Come April I'll go into year 4 with no pay rise, having to absorb rent increases, fuel increases, water increases, food increases etc etc so on and so forth.

Guess we'll manage but there'll be burger-all spare to spend on anything which could be remotely-deemed an inessential, and producing and selling inessentails is a livelihood for others.

I shall have to garden harder and lurk on that allotment at all hours to hold the thin green line against the advancing Slug Army. Show them cold steel, they don't like it up 'em.

ginnyknit

Bloody typical we start planning a road trip to go and see 2T - I was coming too wasnt I? - and the bloomin ferries go on strike, I think someone phoned and warned them that the SHTF brigade were planning on invading. :rotfl:

Maybe I should e mail our weather info to the Manchester City council as there was not a crumb of grit anywhere to be seen when I went to the dentists at 10 am :mad:

2tonsils

Thank you for the explanation Bigmumma I just took it the wrong way. Sorry for any upset everybody xx

Now a horror story for you all...a few years ago we lived in a little prefab villa in an olive grove here and we got hit by a ''Siberian blast''....we faced the sea and it was so cold we had central heating, a log fire and an electric blanket and still had to wear fleecies and beanie hats in bed to keep warm.

It got down to minus 13 a couple of nights and never above freezing in the daytime. Because our water is pumped up from wells all the pumps and water lines froze solid. We had to buy bottled water and heat it a little bit at a time on the stove in order to have a ''shower'', poured from a big jug over the head and cold by the time it reached your feet.....this went on for a full week before it started warming up enough to defrost the pipes, which were then full of sediment that stained you red.......

I expect something similar might happen this time but I am better prepared for it - thanks to this thread and a lot of imagining ''what if'' scenarios that might just happen. I certainly have a much bigger selection of thermals and warm layers (actually, more than I ever possessed in the UK!). We have had snow three times here in the last nineteen years but several years now we have had deep frosts that have threatened to kill the olive groves and citrus trees. Most houses here are not equipped for such cold....they are not insulated for starters...and there is no lagging on water pipes or hot water tanks.

No one would have a clue how to drive on snow or ice. There is a nice tradition here that when snow appears on top of our highest mountain the Greeks drive up, build a tiny snowman on their bonnet then drive around town until it melts so everyone can have a look at it!

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GQ you could become a second Richard Branson if only you could come up with a desirable product to sell that was made entirely from Slugs and Chard - this however entirely evades even my alternative thought processes, but there must be a recipe out there somewhere.........................!!!

GINNY dear, would we have left you out? I have your ticket here with me as we ...... Oi you thieving little hound, give that back, I mean it or NO BIKKIES TOMORROW, Nooooooooo don't swallow it, Oh eck Ginnie, there has been an unexpected developement in the Lurcher household............

2tonsils

GreyQueen wrote: »

Wow, a double date with Ozzy and Sharon, there's an image to conjure with.

I was wondering, would the petrol/ diesel you use be imported too? I'm guessing it would be coming in by tanker? I was wondering how long it would take people to run out if the ports were blocked.

Scary scary times. I find myself wondering how bad things will get here in the UK as cuts bite down ever harder, the social safety net is being frayed and costs of everything go up.

Come April I'll go into year 4 with no pay rise, having to absorb rent increases, fuel increases, water increases, food increases etc etc so on and so forth.

Guess we'll manage but there'll be burger-all spare to spend on anything which could be remotely-deemed an inessential, and producing and selling inessentails is a livelihood for others.

I shall have to garden harder and lurk on that allotment at all hours to hold the thin green line against the advancing Slug Army. Show them cold steel, they don't like it up 'em.

Yes, all the petrol and oil are imported, the petrol stations are closing already because they have none left. I am worried in case it continues then we get the icy blast! I have enough food and fuel for a while (food for a long time actually) but I worry about other people and the hospital,schools etc. The ferries had four days in port with bad weather and now a week due to the strike....some of the food will be bad by the time it gets here unless they are refrigerated. It's certainly saving me money, I have nothing to spend it on now LOL

GreyQueen

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

GQ you could become a second Richard Branson if only you could come up with a desirable product to sell that was made entirely from Slugs and Chard - this however entirely evades even my alternative thought processes, but there must be a recipe out there somewhere.........................!!!

I've often noticed that things that are either utterly useless or edible-but-not-very-nice, grow most excellently, but the lovely stuff like strawbs struggle and are ravaged by things which crawl, slither, fly and hop.

Tis a great disappointment to me, but I shall have to rise above it. Those giganormous Spanish slugs have been confirmed as being not many miles away, too.

I shall be using slug pellets this year. And lots of cold steel. It's them or the runners and I intend to have runners in 2013, so help me.

Now am off to read my book before bedtime as I'll be hyper if I stare at a screen too much longer. Sleep well, and keep warm and cosy ( my snow shower has all melted ).

2tonsils

Goldiegirl wrote: »

2TJust wondering if you have any thoughts on what the weather is likely to be like in London next Tuesday 12th February?

I have an outside activity booked for that date.

My husband's cousin is 60 on that day and he wanted to do something different for his birthday ...... So a group of us are climbing the roof of the O2 Arena (the Dome) !!

It's not as scary as it sounds - there are steps and we will be attached by cable.

It seemed like a good idea when we booked, but I'm beginning to wonder about the wisdom of all this!



I'm just hoping it'll be a nice day.... I don't really want to be doing it in a snowstorm

Well , the european forecasts have been showing the extreme cold with extremely strong winds blowing for most of the UK for some time. Most forecasters seem to think that it will hit between 10th and 13th February but I am sticking my neck out and saying I think its going to hit sooner than that! I think it will start coming down the UK in the next couple of days and we are talking Baltic temperature.

I think it might become too cold to snow by the weekend but the wind chill is going to be something else. Ice on the roads is going to be a major problem if you get any showers at all. I wouldn't count on your trip up the globe....or is it down it?

The next couple of days we will see how things are forming...once that Northerly wind starts up its going to be hard to keep warm! I will post updates tomorrow or as soon as I have them.

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Is that beans or Bow Street to see off the slugs?