[Closed] Winter is comming - serious copeing recommendations

booze

Check.

Kleenex?

Anti-depressants!

Yes the overpriced winter tyres that everyone appears to beed these days.

I've got plenty of bog roll. As for ADs, I tried them once and would rather be depressed than use them.

Kleenex?

Good call, because you may well suffer from snuffly colds and stuff, so a supply of tissues would come in very handy.

At least, I [i]think[/i] that's what Flashy meant...

gonads...............mtfu you big wendy.......... 😀

Books to read or boxsets to watch on the television.

Something to break the unrelenting monotony of the darkness.

Assuming you arn't suffering from a power cut...

Thinking about getting one of these 😐

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lumie-NLBAU-0000-Arabica-SAD-Lightbox/dp/B0031IITEC/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

What about a radio set for listening to public announcements?

I have:
A down jacket
Some good wool socks
A good tog duvet
And a stout refusal to put the heating on until December...

Check. Wind-up, though I suspect from hearing the last 'emergency coverage' from BBC Radio Solent and BBC Sussex you wouldn't miss much.

A copy of the Lib Dem manifesto from the last election. That way when you're cold you can read it and keep yourself warm through sheer rage and hatred of what those traitorous b-tards have done.

🙄
... on a more serious note, I'm keeping an Army entrenching tool in my car boot in case I have to dig the car out or get stuck (for an ESSENTIAL journey only). Cost me £15 quid and it's case fits very nicely in a little recess above where the wheelarch alters the shape of my boot.

FFS this is the British Isles. Not Canada, Scandinavia, Central Europe & the like.

Winter here = a slight chance of perhaps a little bit of snow. but mostly wet & windy. Last year was a freak

john_drummer - Member
FFS this is the British Isles. Not Canada, Scandinavia, Central Europe & the like.

Winter here = a slight chance of perhaps a little bit of snow. but mostly wet & windy. Last year was a freak

The winter before last was also pretty horrible up here, not as horrible as last winter mind, but still too cold and snowy for my liking.

globalti - Member
What about a radio set for listening to public announcements?

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Don't forget a snuggie/slanket 😀

Blue JML snuggie FTW! or a pink one for the laydee.

hibernation

Last three or four years here have had enough snow to stop us getting out of our street for a few days.

Is there anything I've overlooked?

A spell checker? 😉

Its gonna be a mild one until Februaury anyway

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=winter-thoughts-2011;sess=

Im getting a Selk bag to keep me cosy.

ok, Scotland excepted, I'll give you that one

I don't live in Scotland.

Of course, being a poster on this here forum, it goes without saying that you have a phat bike.

I'm hoping it does go a bit nuts again this year. I love the cold weather. I loved the 40 degree temperature differential from indoors to outdoors. I loved cycling in 10 day old snow that was still crisp and not a soggy mess.

Can't imagine stockpiling anything or getting more prepared though, seems a bit overkill. I will park the diesel at the BACK of the drive this time, instead of putting it at the front blocking all the other cars in when it's got waxed fuel lol.

we've had snow 4 or 5 times that made driving difficult/ dangerous/ impossible in the last 3 years. and i live on the south coast.

Blanket under bedsheet- amazed at the difference it makes.

we've had snow 4 or 5 times that made driving difficult/ dangerous/ impossible in the last 3 years. and i live on the south coast.

I reckon you just need more skill 😉 😈

I love the winter, bring it on I say, the colder the better.

As for SAD lightboxes, get a grip, we live in Northern Europe, its cold, wet and dark. don't like it? Move, or grow a pair.

This is what I will be ordering in if we get another bad one:

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Note that the last four have been progressively worse.. so finges crossed we get more this year 🙂

20 tonnes of logs
4x4
spare 4x4
4x4 quad
a full freezer
4 cases of wine
a fur hat

I've got the obvious essentials covered.

As for SAD lightboxes, get a grip, we live in Northern Europe, its cold, wet and dark. don't like it? Move, or grow a pair.

If only I could be as macho as you :swoon:

C'mon grum... that's pretty good advice.. how could you be upset if you had a pert pair of double D's to keep you company?

SAD light boxes are a coping mechanism for depression though. I wouldn't knock anyone who uses one if it helps them cope. Even if its bumpkin to others.

how could you be upset if you had a pert pair of double D's to keep you company?

Tried that. My double d's are kinda saggy and hairy. They depress me more than anything else.

That's why I said pert... noone loves a moob. 🙁

how could you be upset if you had a pert pair of double D's to keep you company?

I do as it happens (not mine).

Mine are more like a C.

Where can i buy a set of DD's or even some perky C's. They will make winter alot more fun.

Where can i buy a set of DD's or even some perky C's. They will make winter alot more fun.

They are normally advertised near the back of the local free papers.

according to MET man in this radio 4prog this winter shouldn't be as harsh as last years....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01685zk/Costing_the_Earth_Let_it_Snow!/

cold start, but warmer end.

Didn't they say 'mild winter' last year?

*stocks up on tins n candles*

i have just bought 5 tons of rock salt 🙂

Some Avid Juicies so you can while away the whole winter trying to work out how to get the pads in

A fat bike 😆

ill be popping off to my new holiday home in Alicante Olla

anotherdeadhero - Member

Didn't they say 'mild winter' last year?

*stocks up on tins n candles*

No they didn't

I have about 18 months wood
Because of the latter my LPG tank, which is full, should last about 2 years
6.5 gallons of Sloe Gin (good year for Sloes).
Due to a bereavement been away for over 2 weeks so a bit slow on the cider but have 10 gallons on the go should get another 20 or so done.
Also I expect to get my normal 70 or so apple crumbles made up for the freezer (used, ready made meal cartons are sh*t hot as they can be used in the freezer, oven and microwave)
Have a very large freezer and no one to share the contents with (at the moment, where is the gorgeous bird that I am always looking for.......no I don't mean a pheasant)
Beating/shooting season about to start so should have a ton of pheasant breast soon for the freezer.
Not doing well on the rabbits don't seem to want to go in my trap in the garden........maybe there all in my freezer? Could be?
Over 40+ jars of tomatoes sauces (good year for toms)
A decent amount of dried wild mushrooms (mainly fairy ring)
AND LOTS OF FRIENDS WITH 4X4 PICK UPS OR TRACTORS (useful when you only have a bikes and bike trailers).

milkyman - Member
i have just bought 5 tons of rock salt