Preparing for Winter V

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Cold here tonight despite the stove being lit earlier I think it's going to be a 'hot water bottle' night and going to bed early. I put Bolognese sauce to cook in the slow cooker early this morning so I'll cook some pasta to serve it with a little later and maybe a hot meal will warm us up from the inside out?

fuddle

We're set for - 2 overnight so definately chilly this eve.

What can I do for an 11 year old who has a duvet and two blankets but loses her covers on the floor. The problem being she's used to a high sleeper bed with built up sides so has never lost her bedding even though she is (a very noisy!) thrasher about in bed. Now she's in a single bed she thrashes about just the same but loses all her covers onto the floor. She woke up last night cold.

Primrose

fuddle wrote: »

We're set for - 2 overnight so definately chilly this eve.

What can I do for an 11 year old who has a duvet and two blankets but loses her covers on the floor. The problem being she's used to a high sleeper bed with built up sides so has never lost her bedding even though she is (a very noisy!) thrasher about in bed. Now she's in a single bed she thrashes about just the same but loses all her covers onto the floor. She woke up last night cold.

r get her to sleep with bedsocks and a fleecy set of top and jogging bottoms or use a double duvet tucked into sides of the bed under the mattress. Or, of course, a hot water bottle. Is her bed freestanding or tucked up alongside a wall one side?

If it's against a wall the obvious answer might be to firmly jam all the bedding between the wall and the edge of the mattress to ensure the bedding can't easily be kicked aside.

fuddle

It's free standing but I have a double duvet that I can use. I'll set about tucking that right now. Thank you. Once I posted I came up with tucking her blankets in long wise. It won't cover her whole bed but she sleeps knees up anyway. I think it will cover her body. She sleeps in a onesie but she will have socks on tonight and I'll have her try a t-shirt and leggings underneath.

We have the heating set at 18 to stop it getting too cold but 18 is still quote cold. Thank you for your help. Kids! Always pulling at parental heart strings.

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A double blanket tucked in would stop the single duvet from slipping or use a sleeping bag that she is zipped in to and she'll stay warm.

pattypan4

my mother used something like a great big peg with a band going across under the mattress, with a similar peg thing on the other side. It didn`t trap a child in bed, it just stopped the blankets sliding off


I managed to find some northern nights flannel sets at last, they used to be on qvc but not now. Found them from a seller on ebay, she had 2 single sets the same so I snaffled them and they are on their way. No point in having one set of flannel bedding, they take ages to dry. The fleece ones were dry in a flash. I am definitely thinking that cotton is the right way for me, yet again I woke up twice in the night and it is through me being too hot while sleeping in fleece. I saw the actual sparks when I was moving my fleece pillowcase in the dark. I must be getting covered with static in the night

pattypan4

I wish I had thought to make some draught excluders for the outside doors. I only realised tonight that there is a lot of cold coming in at the bottom, never noticed it before but I was standing in front of a door watching the washing machine and my legs felt cold. I normally wear trousers. I cba so have ordered some, two from amazon for normal doors and a long one from etsy for patio doors. I definitely could have made them but I would rather be knitting right now, anyway I haven`t got the stuffing. I nearly decided to cut up my fleece bedding for excluders but it flashed into my mind that some struggling person might use them and I would rather pass the bedding on, seeing as I have washed it specially. There is still one more set of patio doors, so might order another one after christmas


The more expensive flannelette came today and it feels lovely, am frantically getting one set dry so I can use it tonight and in that case will toddle off to the cs tomorrow with 2 full single sets of good fleece bedding.

Living_proof

I live in an extremely well insulated house which is about 9 years old. Massive amounts of insulation in the loft, floors, walls with great quality double glazing. The one thing which lets it down is such a small, silly detail and yet it can cause significant draft and discomfort. The front door keyhole for a mortice lock has no internal cover and so when the wind is in the wrong quarter it howls through the small hole. I managed to find an escutcheon and a friend fitted it and it has made all the difference.

cuddlymarm

Hi Pattypan4
Rolled up towels will work until your draught excluders arrive.

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We were going to visit DD2 in Bristol this morning but we are blocked in by floods on all the main roads round about. Luckily I have learned to always have in day to day food and cleaning items and the wherewithal to make bread etc. as if we can't get out.....supplies may not be able to get in! makes sense really doesn't it to be that little bit ahead of the world and all its vagaries?