KonMari 2018 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Floss

Blackpool

Slinky

Floss wrote: »

Blackpool

I've friends in Thorton-Cleveleys, they say they rarely get snow!

OH is home now thank goodness, snow has just started again. He says it's worse here than anything he's seen on his drive home, but we've been really lucky compared with so many.

Lentil & bacon soup on, I plan on taking the afternoon off now he's home and will watch the althletics.

bluenose1

Not much snow in Liverpool. Last snowed two days ago and pretty much melted.
Absolutely freezing though. OH has had to go on roof to defrost pipe from combi boiler as gone off 3 times due to icing up.
Just making a home made soup to warm us up.

Slinky

Chucking it down with snow since mid afternoon. Glad OH came home early. We're supposed to be going to Wembley for the football tomorrow, that's not going to happen. Second time we've not got there, last time we were booked to see Adele but she cancelled with a throat problem.

luxor4t

Slinky wrote: »

Is there anywhere in the UK at the moment that doesn't have snow?

Swansea! Despite schools + businesses closing due to dire 'red warning' weather forecasts, we had a sprinkle of icing sugar, most of which blew away in the arctic-bitter wind overnight. Leading article in the local paper is a tongue-in-cheek complaint!

luxor4t

Sayschezza wrote: »

And if you hang them on the line in these icy conditions it will help whiten them further

[QUOTE=GreyQueen;73960432
Yes, frost bleaching of white cottons, excellent idea, will really brighten them. You can also clean rugs in the snow, Scandi style.[/QUOTE]

Probably just of 'social history' interest now but this also works for terry nappies, especially if you hang them out overnight because you are so ashamed that your laundry skills aren't up to detergent commercial standards ....:o:D

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I am snowed in, have been for two days, 3 foot drifts and no-one is going anywhere but am content enough and glad that the electric is still on. I have been wearing some extra layers and quickly decided that some were not for me, too `posh` ie barbour type buttoned thick tailored LS cardi types, didn`t enjoy them on so they will be taken to cs. What I am actually liking to wear is thin woolovers wool/cashmere which only lasts one season, silk vest under and a felted wool buttoned sleeveless slipover on top, keeps the chills from my back. In actual fact really I only need a couple of outfits for winter at home. It is all going to help with a bit more MK in my wardrobe, no point yet as it would just end up as a small pile

I am Liverpudlian, grew up in sound from anfield and remember 1963. That was a bad winter

GreyQueen

Spent the past 7 hours around a mate's house (5 mins' walk away) kondo-ing her wool collection. She has more wool than most wool shops and a chunk of it is now in a large holdall in my hall, heading up to the chazzer tomorrow.

We had laughs, grub, did some baking, caught up on the gossip and sorted out a good 50 % her wool stash. She suspects that this may well be the first of several pass-throughs and some stuff is going to be tried on the 'bay but she's still being very generous and there are going to be some joyous buyers at the chazzer in the next few days.

After a clear day, it has started snowing again. Very very fine icing sugar style snow but it is so cold and dry that it's slowly filling in the ruts and footprints and building up again.

Keep warm and well, lovely peeps. GQ x

wort

No snow here, NW England, half way between manchester and Liverpool.

greent

Snow here in Glos - although not as bad as expected. Bad enough that most schools closed Thurs lunchtime and stayed closed yesterday. (More rural ones closed from Thurs morning) There's around 3-4 inches as a base here, with much bigger drifts every so often.
We were meant to be off out tonight for dinner for my birthday (midweek) - don't think we will be! - that's definitely not a necessary journey! DD was meant to be going back to uni (Cardiff) tomorrow - not convinced she will be (lecturers are all on strike until Fri anyway )

Decided that - as it was a snow day - I'd sort the last box of kitchen stuff. It was mainly stuff I'd been umming and ahhing about - so most of it went!