Preparing for Winter V

Eenymeeny

greenbee wrote: »

Mar - I have a silk duvet and it's very light and warm.

Clearly someone needs to set up a hotel where people can go to test duvets and you get a different one every night, give it a score in the morning and then buy the one you like best!

What a great idea Greenbee! Maybe including different types of mattresses too? I used to sell beds and the few minutes trying them in a busy store isn't conducive to making good decisions...

Primrose

Love the idea of mattress and duvet testing. I remember when we got married decades ago and were buying our first bed my then very young fianc! just parked his backside on the edge of the mattress for about 20 seconds and sId Yes, I think thats ok. . He was so embarrassed when I took off my coat and actually laid down on it for ten minutes in full public view!

A decent mattress is an expensive purchase and in my view needs a thorough testing in all the odd positions in which you sleep and move during the course of the night. It will also feel different if you test it with layers of outer padded clothing like coats or anoraks which you wouldnt wear in bed.

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I sleep under a woolroom duvet, I have the all season one which is 2 duvets and am still doing fine with just the warmer one of the two. If electricity goes off and the house cools down then I will put the two together, At the moment, I do have my perfect sleeping system with a welsh pure wool blanket on top. I have a woolroom matress cover underneath and cozee home bedding

I have had silk, which I found heavy, down and feather (expensive but not as eiderdown) and gave it to dd as it was ks and we went onto separate single duvets woolroom which suited up much better

I do have an electric underblanket on the bed but have hardly used it, yet, only when I had the aches and pains the other week. My electrical heaters are performing brilliantly, just like I wanted and the house fabric is cosy, I turned the thermostats down to 17 yesterday

Today I bought an extra thermos, I have one but can see prolonged power cuts. Freezer is rammed full, bought 3 x 1 pints of milk and they are padding in the freezer too. Bread is on bm timer for finishing tonight and will easily keep 3 days in a bread bin before I start to cut. I bought cheese slices to have cold on crispbreads, a couple of noodle pots that need boiling water, Extra carrots and cabbages, wrapped one savoy up closely and it will keep for quite a while

I made lots of low oil granola and all I need do is add nuts, dried fruit etc, will do for any meal. Look out for friday in the south, will be terrifying for some

Wednesday2000

There has been light snow here this morning. It's melting already.

I feel so warm at night under the flannel sheet I bought, it's amazing how much of a difference it makes.

fuddle

I awoke to a covering. At the moment it's powdery but it's still -1 so there's not much thaw apart from where the sun is hitting. As soon as the sun dissipates we're in for a week of snow. We have an amber warning amongst the yellow warnings.

I haven't needed to prep. This could go either way. I could find that I'm doing ok with my preps and can cope with anything that comes or we struggle as I've underestimated. My only niggle so far is I wish I had more fuel for the fire. We have enough but not enough to feel secure about it.

For the future I have learned that getting the stocks ready for autumn isn't enough. I need to ensure that I really do keep on top of the fuel store and it needs to be topped up all of the time. This cold burst at the near of the start of spring has caught me off guard as once February came I became complacent with the stocks. Lesson learned.

greenbee

Heathrow grinding to a halt in the face of a few snowflakes...

SimpleLiving

Did the weekly shop as per usual this morning. Shelves well stocked and no panic buying thank goodness. I just bought the normal amount. Unlikely to be snowmaggedon here in sussex:(

mardatha

Warnings now updated for my area and they are saying by Friday we'll have 30 cms - that's nearly a foot of snow. I do like a real proper winter :T:j:T
The breadmaker came on Sat and the bread mix arrived today. All I need now is the energy to get on with it.

tori.k

It's a bit weird here, I've been in just a t-shirt so far today it's been quite warm in the sun the last few days temperature drops around 3 pm but no Frost since Friday.
Toes are giving me jip so the ground is frozen but it's pretty cloudy so don't think we will get the big freeze overnight as they thought, I'm only a couple miles off the coast so always the last to freeze anyway.

C_J

Mister CJ insists I am panicking unnecessarily and we won;t get any snow at all. He is refusing to help me assemble a survival kit, and left me to sort it all out last weekend. I've unearthed the little metal suitcase which houses a camping gaz single burner stove, plus three brand new gas canisters to go with it, have found the wind up torch, wind up radio, two more torches and a supply of batteries, and have bought a box of household candles, spare matches, and three cartons of longlife milk.

When we are plunged into snowy darkness at the end of the week, stuck at home and unable to tunnel out, I may OR MAY NOT offer him a cup of tea.