Preparing for Winter

happyin_devon

well it def felt autumnal this morning! made me realise id left slippers for me,and the boys off my winter prep list!!(was extra jealous when hubby proudly donned his)

today is the first evening that ive pulled the fleece curtain across in kichen,id been just using the metal venitian blind up til now,but when i went to make a cuppa this morn it was jolly chilly!

this week im hoping to acheive
school shoes for boys
trip to wilkos for window film,supplies for med cabinet and hot chocolate
trip to primarni for few extra clothes for ds1 and couple extra fleece blankets.
finally sawing up the rest of pile of tree branches and stacking them somewhere(havent worked out this bit) to dry.

meg72

mardatha wrote: »

Yes Ginny pet. I suppose if you freeze the guineapigs first then the candles would last longer cos the GPs wouldnt need them

Bless you beat me to it, I was too busy laughing at the thought of freezing guineapigs, my young Grandaughter would be horrified. Hers are brought into the lounge to spend the Winter, think they are better looked after than I am.

You have a lovely sense of humour and I do enjoy your posts.

happyin_devon

LJM wrote: »

i got out all the fleece under sheets the other day washed and popped in airing cupboard,stocked up with staples in my kitchen cupboards,have made appointment to get boiler serviced im making my girls blankets for their beds atm just for added warmth for when it gets colder im sure theres more but have brain freeze at the moment

thank u LJM hadnt occured to me to book boilers annual service,will do that 2mo.:T

jcr16

we have ours serviced every year. and our cooker. Our friends a few years back moved in a house and the previous owners hadn't serviced the boiler which they didn't know. they almost died due the carbon monxodie . highly recommend everyone should get it serviced every year. it just not worth the risk.

maryb

last year I got caught in a snowstorm in town and it took more than 3 hours to get home (normally 10 minutes). I didn't have a phone so DH and DD1 didn't know where I was. They were really getting worried. I'm really bad for letting my mobile battery run down.

I've just acquired a new phone so I will keep a credit balance of about £10 on the old PAYG phone and keep it in the car. I've got one of those car phone chargers that plugs into the cigarette lighter socket (do cars have cigarette lighters these days?) and it means that even if I forget my phone or the battery is dead I will be able to make a phone call to let DH know where I am

ChocClare

newyearnewme wrote: »

Emergency boxes for house and cars these sound a really good idea, but what should i put in them?

The one in my car contains:

phone nos/policy for breakdown service
tool that cuts seatbelts/smashes glass (why yes, my DH does expect the worst)
bottle of water
tin mug
chocolate
blanket/picnic rug
foil blankets in packets plus waterproof poncho thing (these together take up about six square inches
wind-up torch and phone charger
foldable shovel
mess tin (not sure why!)
triangle
baby wipes
tampons/sanitary towels (YES THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!)
first aid kit
plastic bags

The one in the house contains

telephone that works without electricity
lighter
candles
torch

er... I am open for suggestions on this one! I have everything (I think) to hand in the house once I have the light to find it - stove, emergency food/water etc. so don't necessarily feel I need what the Americans call a bugout box/bag. All being well we don't live in hurricane country/earthquake country/forest fire country so hopefully will never have to leave the house within x minutes as the doomsday scenariists seem to imply on some of the American sites. I went on one the other day to see if they had any (sensible) suggestions for things to keep on hand, and the guy who was writing about it seemed to have space for guns and ammunition in every part of his house, car, jogging bottoms - if you counted up the number of guns he seemed to have available at the drop of a hat then you began to understand how the atrocicites on American campuses where some disenchanted boy runs amok after raiding his "grandfather's arsenal" come about...:eek:

Butterfly_Brain

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it looks like this winter is going to be as cold if not colder than last year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/newsdebate/r/t-10137958/index.html

So I have started laying in a good stock cupboard, had the boiler serviced and stocked up on camping gas, candles , wind up lanterns and torches, extra fleece blankets, bubble wrap, toilet rolls etc in readiness

LJM

happyin_devon wrote: »

thank u LJM hadnt occured to me to book boilers annual service,will do that 2mo.:T

no probs

LJM

ah well if it gets my girls a few extra days off school im all for it bring on the snow

Teapartymum

Ive not been on this site for a while and I love this thread,everyones ideas and solutions are very interesting so thank you.

So far all we have done is make sure we have some coal for the burner (order more when get paid again)
Ive got some tea lights so going to start using them.

I need to sort out winter clothes for the family and get nannie to knit gloves ( maybe)
Sort out hats and scarfs for the kiddies as well.

Thanks again for the tips.