Preparing for Winter

ceridwen

All these comments about hotwater bottles perishing and then bursting - to drastic effect - has got me wondering how I can tell when mine are en route to that great Waterbottle Home in the Dump - errrr....any clues please?

Bobbykins

angelkissingdevil wrote: »

I make my children rice bags. If anyone's interested in learning how to do them just shout x

HIYA, I'M SHOUTING!.....pretty please, I'd like to know how to make them. Also, sorry if this is a dumb question, how do you get them heated up? Am I right in thinking you put them in the microwave? If so, how long for.......(please tell me that's right, otherwise I can see me managing to make them then explode them!:rotfl: :rotfl: )

Barneysmom

The last few nights, my little dog has snook into my bed - she must be feeling the cold :rotfl:

Beccatje

I finally put up a curtain between the livingroom and the kitchen.

Our kitchen was built onto the house at a later date and it's not insulated at all. The floor used to be absolutely freezing as it was stone tiles on a concrete floor. We stuck wood floorboards on top and a nice lino and that helps quite a bit already. The door to the outside also holds the catflap which lets in a huge amount of cold drafts.
I took the curtain down for the summer because it sort of gets in the way and stuff but put it back up today. Hopefully it'll make a big difference. I've been feeling the cold creep across the floor in the last few days.

We need another trip to stock up on some more coal but that'll be next weekend.

I feel reall 'wintery' now after celebrating Samhain. It's dark and blustery out there and I'm all cozy and warm with my knitted blanket, fleeces and Coal burner.


Bring it on!
Becca

rosieben

Skintmama wrote: »

... After far too many years, I have finally put up a curtain (fleece blanket, garden cane and two cup hooks!) over my glazed back door. Now the utility room is no longer a freezing box that can only be visited in garb fit for the Arctic......I cannot believe the difference it has made, for only the length of time it took me to tack one edge of the fleece and screw in a couple of hooks. So, for anyone who thinks it is all too much effort, or not worth the bother heatwise, I urge you to at least try such a simple solution and see. ...

Excellent idea :T

angelkissingdevil

Bobbykins wrote: »

HIYA, I'M SHOUTING!.....pretty please, I'd like to know how to make them. Also, sorry if this is a dumb question, how do you get them heated up? Am I right in thinking you put them in the microwave? If so, how long for.......(please tell me that's right, otherwise I can see me managing to make them then explode them!:rotfl: :rotfl: )

Ok yes you're right you heat them in the microwave, from 1 min to 2 depending how hot you like them.

Ingredients
1 bag of cheap long grain rice - UNCOOKED
cotton material
outer material (fleece or flannel - type they use in bed sheets)

with the cotton you need to make a bag (this is to seal the rice in) - to make fold material in half sew down both sides and a section in the middle to make two sections for the rice to go in. Once this is sewn then tip rice into the sections and sew the top so the rice is sealed inside. this is now complete and just needs a pillow case style covering with the flannelette. The reason why we use a covering is so that it can be washed.

all you do now is pop it into the microwave and the rice gets hot and keeps you toasty

If you need further help on my lousy instructions pm me and i'll email you a diagram x

Hope these are clear x

Obviously don't use cooked rice otherwise it'll smell and go rancid etc...:rotfl:

Bobbykins

That's brilliant angelkd....even I can follow that. Thanks very much!

angelkissingdevil

You're very welcome, if you want pici's just pm me x

sheyo

angelkissingdevil wrote: »

You're very welcome, if you want pici's just pm me x

Hi I am a lurker on this thread and I wondered if you could possibly send me the piccis too, but what does pm me mean - sorry haven't long joined the forums and not completely up on the lingo
thanks
shell

the_cat

ceridwen wrote: »

All these comments about hotwater bottles perishing and then bursting - to drastic effect - has got me wondering how I can tell when mine are en route to that great Waterbottle Home in the Dump - errrr....any clues please?

Unfortunately, even after mine split I couldn't see anything about the bottle that should have made me realise that it was on it's way out