Preparing for Winter V

babyblooz

Well we are supposed to be having the white stuff fall down us before breakfast.

I'm currently typing this sitting in front of the fire with the laptop on a stool by my side, after having tomato soup and a cheese sandwich to warm me up. I've been out since early afternoon so a cosy evening in front of the telly will do nicely.

I will keep checking the different weather websites throughout the evening to see which one is most accurate and then I will know which one to follow through the rest of the winter. It amazes me that there is so much disparity between the different predictions! It's currently 4 degrees outside but expected to fall below freezing in a couple of hours.

alice-mary

westcoastscot wrote: »

no snow here yet, but loving TK's snow cam. We have snow forecast, and it's certainly cold enough. Keeping everything crossed!!!
Culpepper we call our hot water bottles walter hottle bottles - we did when I was a kid in Yorkshire - any ideas why????? I don't know anyone else who does??

WCS, my Mum used to say Walter Hottle Bottle and I THINK it was the name of a character in a comic...he was like a toy/friend to children and kept them warm!

Alice
xx

Upsidedown_Bear

westcoastscot wrote: »

no snow here yet, but loving TK's snow cam. We have snow forecast, and it's certainly cold enough. Keeping everything crossed!!!
Culpepper we call our hot water bottles walter hottle bottles - we did when I was a kid in Yorkshire - any ideas why????? I don't know anyone else who does??

alice-mary wrote: »

WCS, my Mum used to say Walter Hottle Bottle and I THINK it was the name of a character in a comic...he was like a toy/friend to children and kept them warm!

Alice
xx

Walter Hottle Bottle

westcoastscot

Oh thanks Alice-Mary and Upsidedown Bear - how lovely!!!!!

Vala-Mal-Doran

Hi all,
Long time lurker on this thread but de-lurking as I need some help.

I have moved into a house with an open kitchen/conservatory - a winter preppers nightmare! Obviously the heat is escaping through the large glass conservatory roof as soon as it reaches the kitchen. I think the end result is to pay to get some folded doors fitted but I was wondering if you had any advice/tips to see us through until we got to that point. I can only think of puttinf up a curtain pole in the meantime but OH isnt keen to go drilling away if we are to put doors in soon after.

I have threatened to bubble wrap the ceiling :rotfl: Then again maybe thats a good idea :think:

babyblooz

Bubble wrap is good but I don't know how it would work in such circumstances. I have used it for a couple of small windows that we don't open but your area is open and much bigger. Apart from the curtain I can't think of anything else but people on here are very helpful so maybe someone has been in that situation before and will be able to offer some ideas.

cornishchick

Vala-Mal-Doran wrote: »

Hi all,
Long time lurker on this thread but de-lurking as I need some help.

I have moved into a house with an open kitchen/conservatory - a winter preppers nightmare! Obviously the heat is escaping through the large glass conservatory roof as soon as it reaches the kitchen. I think the end result is to pay to get some folded doors fitted but I was wondering if you had any advice/tips to see us through until we got to that point. I can only think of puttinf up a curtain pole in the meantime but OH isnt keen to go drilling away if we are to put doors in soon after.

I have threatened to bubble wrap the ceiling :rotfl: Then again maybe thats a good idea :think:

How big is the gap? I have an open plan down stairs, and when it's really cold I have a tension rod fitted between the two rooms ( gap the size of double doors ) , with lightweight plastic curtain rings and a couple of curtains. No permanent fixtures . But I don't have kids or pets to pull on this so it works for me ..

mardatha

Definitely need a curtain, with lightweight thermal lining if poss.
We woke up to an inch of snow and still falling. Isn't the world much prettier when it's all white

westcoastscot

so jealous Mar, we have nothing - it was forecast as well!

thriftmonster

We have a couple of centimetres of the white stuff here on the top of the hill but dh managed to drive to the station ok - just the top of our road isn't gritted.

I agree, Mardatha, so pretty looking across at the fells - and it's still snowing a little bit here.