THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

GreyQueen

thriftwizard wrote: »

It's been about 10℃ all day over here on the other side of the New Forest to MrsLW, and pouring with rain! I was working, so up at silly o'clock in time to get to the venue & capture a "good" parking space - i.e. one where I didn't have to carry all my worldly goods too far & get them soggy. But - really warm, for January, and fun watching the surfers; there were some halfway decent rollers coming in.

We've had rain for most of the day after a frosty start. I'd no idea there was snow anywhere in the region but it arrived in the hometown (an hour's drive away) mid-morning. Just pertiddling down here and many degrees above freezing.

fuddle, I haven't been able to go sledging for 20 + years - no snow. Envy envy envy.:rotfl:

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fuddle wrote: »

Yip. The next problem is going to be all that thawing snow on already saturated ground and rain to boot. :cool:

Thankfully, I live at the top of a very steep hill, so rainwater drains away quickly.

This area is pretty much flood-proof.

fuddle

I do too but it's more about walking down the valley to school, my eldest travelling on rural back roads in her school bus and DH driving around county wide not knowing what is around the corner. I've seen a manhole cover bubbling under the stress of too much water and that sight has stayed with me.

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Still holding at 5 degrees here.

Hoping it doesn't freeze overnight.

moneyistooshorttomention

fuddle wrote: »

I do too but it's more about walking down the valley to school, my eldest travelling on rural back roads in her school bus and DH driving around county wide not knowing what is around the corner. I've seen a manhole cover bubbling under the stress of too much water and that sight has stayed with me.

I'm guessing there are people locally that go out taking photos of flooded bits and/or telling others - they'll be up on the local Facebook page probably.

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Good news.

It didn't freeze overnight.

moneyistooshorttomention

I'm just SO glad I don't live further north (got the distinct feeling I'd only head out of doors for about 3 months of the year in some parts of the country.....).

Quick peer out the window here revealed grey skies (usual for here:()/mild wind (wind is frequent here)/cold. Just thank goodness there's no rain (at the moment) and at least the snow position is "My normal" (ie there isnt any).

Going off to administer kick up backside to head out the door for something-I'm-due-to-be-at - despite weather that is my own personal definition of "bad"...

I've got the distinct feeling I'd be describing standard weather in some parts of the country as "Arctic" LOL. Yep - I'll admit to being a "soft Southerner".

EDIT; forecast says 8C here.

fuddle

Winters are definitely different down the South. They have their own problem and it's there that I saw the manhole cover about to blow bit I admit it took me a while to adjust to the constant cold here. Money I bet you get a horrible wind chill temp and there's nothing worse than wind and rain together.

https://ibb.co/cvaXRw myself and the DDs sledging yesterday. You can't see our faces so it's ok to post.

It's treacherous out. Days worth of compacted snow and ice is beginning to thaw. It's at it's most slippery this morning. Thankfully DH forgot his glasses and had to come home which meant he swung by the school to bring me up the hill.

Spring please.

tori.k

We are in double figures still had a few odd days in the 7/8c and a couple of frosty starts but expect the winter to hit February/March onwards if the last few years are anything to go on,be another bad year for spuds, Cornwall is a giant sponge should be renamed bogswall

zeupater

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

... We have an inset stove ZEUPATER so I only have a narrowish shelf to cook on but I have the right shaped pans for using on it, I have a pair of half moon saucepans which sit with the flat part right against the stove surround for quicker heating, I have a couple of sets of rectangular mess tins which I cook soda bread and scones in very successfully and the camping kettle heats water very efficiently. When we move I'm going to make sure that whatever we put in by way of a stove has cooking plates to make a bigger range of cooking possible. Until then, this one serves us adequately.

Hi

That made me think ... over the weekend MrsZ dragged me around the shops, great fun! (:() ... anyway, I noticed some small scale cast iron pots & pans (~ single egg & 1/2can beans type sizes) in the TK-Ma** cookware section which would look decent on a small burner & could be fun to use every so-often ... wouldn't expect to cook Sunday lunch with them though!

I was going to mention that one of Ald1's specialbuys for next week is a stove fan which looks similar to the one on the log-burner picture from last week, link to details posted over on the G&E board ... https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5779943 ... but it sounds like it'll not be any use with your set-up.

HTH
Z