Preparing for Winter

pinkparrott

just a quick reply re the temperature, I live near Leeds in Yorkshire and although it has been really wet today, it must be fairly warm still as i have been keeping a close eye on the bedroom temperatures as i have a 2 1/2 year old and a 13 week old baby and like another poster said its more important they keep warm, but the thermometer in their rooms has been howering between 18.5 and 19.5 all this week. I'm really pleased as that is without any heating.
I'm lucky as i live in a mid terrace and my neighbour on one saide always has her aga on and that warms one of my walls!!and my living room and little boys room are south facing and they seem to warm up well during the day.

The temperature guide i have for my baby says 16-20 is ideal for a nursery, and my little boys eczema flares up if he gets too warm in bed, so i think we should be able to hold off putting the heating on for a week or too yet.

Olliebeak

As a child, I had a tubular scarf. My nan used to push her fist into one end of it to make a kind of pocket. Then stick that bit on my head and use the other end to wind around my neck.

The other kind, where you sew up a short seam in the middle of the scarf, she used to call a 'pixie hood'.

Another one of her 'things' was to use an adult scarf on me, cross it over the chest and then 'safety pin' it at the back(inside my 'gaberdine mac') before sending me to school. Always had to ask the teacher to 'unpin' me - but I wasn't the only one back then.

I also had balaclavas made for me by my uncle's girlfriend. These were always done in lovely 'little girl colours' - kept my neck and ears very warm indeed. You can make them where you do the neck bit flat and then add buttons, which turns it into more of a hood than a balaclava.

Don't think we'd get away with these with today's fashion conscious young misses though .

d-b_2

using the sheepskin given to us when our now-21 yr old was a baby under the sheet means I rarely need the electric blanket on. (I Wash it by hand with wool washing liquid and glycerine in the rinse keeps it supple).

Justamum

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

and had the idea of using a shower curtain and gaffer tape on little ones bed as cant find a waterproof mattress protector for a cot bed - so wondering if i put his fleece under that if it would still insulate him??? answers on a postcard please.....

I'd used a mattress protector for my eldest DD and it made the bed really cold because it was made of plastic. My youngest daughter recently stopped using nappies at nighttime so I put a folded up towel under the bottom sheet. (A fleece under that would work because they are often used as nappy wraps.) She's wet the bed once and the towel worked - nothing leaked through to the mattress.

Justamum

oliveoyl wrote: »

Does anybody wear ear-muffs anymore... or will I be the laughing stock of the neighbourhood if I get some?

When out today and the wind gave me ear-ache.

I've got some - grey fluffy ones! I got them in Claires a couple of years ago. I hate wearing hats, but always get earache when the wind is cold so had been looking for ear-muffs for ages.

Justamum

Quasar wrote: »

I have just cut the tip of the fingers off a pair of the cheap ones so I can wear them when I work at the computer. Trying them out this very moment, it works a treat.

Won't they just unravel though?

denimmaterial

For several years now, friends have been recommending Muck Boots as an alternative to wellies when walking the dog in wet grass. This summer (ha!) has been so wet that I finally bought some. They are expensive compared to wellies, but so comfortable and very warm., and you can walk easily in them. I bought mine from https://www.jccountry.co.uk based at Preston, Lancs.
So that's my tip for this winter - buy Muck Boots

oliveoyl

denimmaterial wrote: »

For several years now, friends have been recommending Muck Boots as an alternative to wellies when walking the dog in wet grass. This summer (ha!) has been so wet that I finally bought some. They are expensive compared to wellies, but so comfortable and very warm., and you can walk easily in them. I bought mine from www.jccountry.co.uk based at Preston, Lancs.
So that's my tip for this winter - buy Muck Boots

One of my friends swears by these... they are designed to stay put on your feet even when walking through the gloopiest mud... unlike normal wellies which come off.

kormachameleon

I resist turning on the heating and make myself a hot water bottle, put it behind my back, cover my knees with a blanket, thus creating my own micro-climate. Particularly good in conjunction with a good film on the telly and a bowl of popcorn.

ksh123

As I don't sew or know anyone who does do you think that that the cost of paying to have door curtains made, then poles put up etc etc is justified by energy saving and just plain feeling cosier? (My front door is a double glazed model but still feels cold to the touch.)