Preparedness for when

VJsmum

pineapple wrote: »

Have been supremely organised this am having just cooked, portioned and frozen 6 border collie dinners. She is on steroids at the mo so permanently ravenous - it's been torture for the poor thing to watch/smell all that food wafting by. :eek:

Horse meat is one thing, but border collie is taking it too far i think

Anyone up for doing earth hour tonight?

http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/

Turn your lights off for an hour at 8.30, not sure if it's other electricals as well. Is it cheating if I charge the lappie and use it off battery for an hour? We did it last year when I was in Stockholm on a study visit - we went to someone's house for dinner and their 13 year old insisted - it was lovely, so lovely that the lights didn't go back on until we left.

mardatha

Quite a lot of people will be doing it but maybe not voluntarily VJ's mum!

Hillbilly1

We'll watch tv in the dark!

Pineapple - would your dog eat carrots as a treat? Very filling and can help with the steroid hungryness. In summer they can be frozen too, cooling and a treat, and low cal!

westlothianlass

Hi all
Glad everyone is surviving the bitter cold weather.
My little hurricane lamps arrived from amazon so went out and got some paraffin today (needed it for the greenhouse anyway). They are a handy addition to the candles and wind up lamps, and OH has enjoyed himself playing around with them :rotfl:. Its so bloomin drafty in this house that we are very well ventilated, but i'll keep and eye on them when on anyway.
VJsmum we will be putting our lights off tonight:D.
Keep cosy all
WLL x

westcoastscot

mardatha wrote: »

I lived in a city centre once GQ - and lasted 6 months. I felt like I was being smothered. We then moved into a multi storey flat - high up - and that was much better. But I'd never move back, I like it here.
WCS I do that with candles all the time ....BUT!! never ever look into a mirror by candlelight in a dark room. It's the scariest most horrible experience ever. :eek::eek: I'm serious btw. I cannot do it!

Mar I haven't purposely looked in a mirror in ages - I sometimes catch sight of myself when i'm out and am always surprised at how old I look these days. I don't wear make-up, just a splash of nivea cream and have had the same hairstyle since a young adult (very long hair coiled and pinned). I don't actually possess a mirror, although the guys have a small one in the bathroom for shaving purposes.

thriftwizard

I sometimes catch sight of myself when i'm out and am always surprised at how old I look these days

My mother has stolen all the mirrors in this house - I know she has, because every time I look in one, there she is!

I've just seen something really odd. I've spent most of the day holed up "doing" a craft fair - a pleasant day, and not a complete disaster financially, though hardly busy - but wandered up to the local supermarket at about 5pm. And the sky was filled, and I do mean filled, with flock after flock of birds of all sizes, streaming southwest as fast as their wings could carry them. We're on a main migration route here and normally at this time of year they'd be starting to fly in from the south. Not this year... sent a bit of a shiver down my spine. It's not too cold here - yet - and the resident birds are nesting away like mad. Just hope they're not going to get frozen in situ...

Nargleblast

Not only does my mother look out of mirrors at me, she also speaks when I open my mouth. And it seems only five minutes ago I was a teenager and thinking she was ancient! (She died many years ago, my chidren never knew her).

maryb

Just to say don't put candles too close to a mirror or the glass can crack

thriftwizard

maryb wrote: »

Just to say don't put candles too close to a mirror or the glass can crack

Oh my goodness - she could get out! :eek:

ALIBOBSY

Well we have been lucky so far with the snow, my sympathies are with anyone in the bad areas.

We had blizzard type stuff from about 6pm yesterday-had to walk DD1 around to her friends for a sleepover as OH had taken the car to the hospital to see BIL and we had sold the second car earlier in the day. At one point we had to lean into the big golf umbrella together into the wind and really push to stay upright. BUT although it lay overnight it turned to sleet then warmed up and melted this afternoon and now its snowing again lol. So the garden went white, green and is now going white again in less than 24 hours, but its easier than the way some are having it. We are not that far from the area in lancashire where a poor old man was found dead in his car.

We decided to get rid of the second car as we only got it when OH was commuting to Manchester to save petrol compared to the bigger galaxy we need to carry the 6 of us. Now OH is self employed and works locally it seemed pointless paying 2 lots of tax and insurance. All the kids schools/nursery are within walking distance so I only use it to go shopping. Then OH decided to take some of the cash to check out a new shop near his mum and dads (he drops DD1 off at Gymnastics near them so it saves petrol to go there and come back later, so he did the store on the way to his parents). He says its a brilliant camping/army and navy type shop and the prices seem good.

After all the talk on here about paraffin lamps made us have a chat about them and he had been reading about the different brands and quality. So when at the shop he "invested" as he put it in a Feuerhand lamp which seem to be a very good german brand. He also got one of those things to put on your keyring with a striker/penlight/piercing whistle. He is testing it at the moment like a boy with a new toy lol. The one he got says will work with other oils including vegatable oil. Already have some windup torches and a wind up latern so got options. We like the fact it also gives out some heat as well.

He got the 276 special and it was £18 and seems really solid. Oh is doing that glazed eye stare at an open flame that men seem to get rofl. DD3 keeps trying to blow it out like a candle bless her.

The windup one we have is good and it also can be charged from the mains/car battery as well as being able to charge things from it via usb.

Its this one http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3401967.htm

But we got it when it was on half price offer a few months ago, so might be worth watching to see if it goes down again this year.

Ali x