2011-2012 winter

i love hearing singing have a good time and hope the rain holds off.

TP wrote:i love hearing singing have a good time and hope the rain holds off.

Thank you

cold today!

It's really mild here to day after the rain last night

Aisles wrote:It's really mild here to day after the rain last night

did you get to sing.

TP wrote:

Aisles wrote:It's really mild here to day after the rain last night

did you get to sing.

Yes we sung under brollies I was suppose to have sung last year as well but due to all the snow I got snowed in on to of the hill

no too bad today. We have washing out and oh has just run over the lawn with the mower. Shant have to worry about that now for a while.

Cold, bright, dry and crisp been gathering the leaves up today for the compost bin, cooked dinner and then it lagged it down......grrrrr.... still we need the rain as our reservoirs in east anglia are less then half full and anglian water reckon we will be in drought again next year.

Heavy hail for us this morning. Thankfully I went out first thing to fill the bird feeders - there's no way I'm going out there now! Dan got all the candles and candle holders out of the garage yesterday so they're all set to go in case of emergency!

Tis' cold this morning and all the cars have ice on them. Sooooo glad I don't have to venture out to day.

I think I've jinxed winter this year by buying snow chains for my shoes! it'll be mild and sunny here til march now no doubt lol!!!

flibsey wrote:I think I've jinxed winter this year by buying snow chains for my shoes! it'll be mild and sunny here til march now no doubt lol!!!

Snap! me too fibsey....... when I was out shopping, I fell over about 4 years ago and smashed my left elbow, broke my lower L arm and dislocated my L shoulder, 5 months and 2 ops later I have limited movement but it could have been worse.

So I am also prepared but then, I try and not go out too much when its slippery....

i get scared of slipping too.

last year I wore second hand kid's football boots (small feet) with the plastic torn off the cleats to leave just the metal studs.

It's been so windy here for the past week Dan has finally decided that some of the more extreme emergency prep might indeed be a good idea! We already have everything in the car (he used to travel 80 miles to work so he was aware of being stranded!) but he's been a little more reluctant with things for the house beyond the normal insulation and stuff. So today he is off to buy a small camping stove and gas canisters, snow shoes and a folding snow shovel! What pushed him over the edge is that someone we know in Scotland thanked me for telling them about Yaktraks and they've been using theirs already this year. Better for it to happen today before the sleet and freezing rain we've been forecast for next week!

we have a small gas cooker, cannisters, gas kettle and a wind up torch. I also put a load of kid's stuff on my ipod and make sure it's always as charged as possible in winter just in case sophie needs calming during a power cut, it runs on battery.

We have wind up torches and all that stuff but I think Dan just had the realisation that we'd have no way of cooking or heating the place if there was no electricity. I've reserved all the stuff we want to buy so he just has to pick it up.

We were out the other night and saw some children walking about with head torches on, thought that was a great idea. Great idea for you to stick some stuff for Sophie on your iPod.

also, hot water bottles. if you have a mini gas cooker and a pan or a kettle, you can fill hottie botties

wet and windy today not cold tho.

Every year I say I'm going to buy a hot water bottle but I never do!

Well I'm getting my windows washed by the rain, its quite windy, the powers been flicking off and on so could be in the dark later. I've just remembered being in the dark last year making some Christmas bits in the kitchen, got a load of candles out then OH came in, his first words were have we a power cut. What a daft thing to say, think my answer was rather sarcastic

Got a solid fuel rayburn and log burner so no problem with food/heat just a pain lighting candles everywere.

More heavy wind this week so they say.

We started looking for flooring yesterday. At the minute we just have the concrete floor in the living area and it's freezing! We can't have carpet because of the rabbits so we're looking for something cosy but headwearing and something that can't be chewed!

I was having a look online yesterday when Dan saw one he loved, he's set his mind on having that now - was it the £15 a metre laminate I was looking at do you think? Nooooooooooo. So to have it for this time next year we need to get our saving caps on...

Also, I finally got round to fixing the draught excluder brush strip to the front door this weekend, makes loads of difference.

Oh dear it was so lovely and sunny and bright to day and now the rain is coming down in bucket loads.

cant be bad got the washing out today. Its pegged on well though