Fall - Winter Preparations

[Decaff]

I'm going to get a slanket for each of us this winter, hate the heating on, it makes my eyes dry out and my throat dry and raspy. Anyone else got one of these? Are they any good?

[Hamradioop]

Hi decaff,

bought my good lady a similar product and it keeps here all nice an toasty.

regards

Kev

[Decaff]

Excellent!! Slankets it is then, will have to take mine up being a shorty but machine I have will do the job nicely!

[Decaff]

Boiler being serviced today, radiators being bled and the oven needs a clean..

[Stasher]

Well this year it's purchasing more sun-screen, checking the fans are functioning, buying anti-perspirant, adding to the t-shirt and shorts collection, maybe developing an automatic watering system for the garden. Winter, what winter? 25C in London yesterday! What the...?

LMAO But apparently climate change is all in our minds

Nickdutch, point 10, excellent, never realised you could get a red light cover. Will hunt one out, thanks

Decaff, I have three snuggies, they are fab. They look naff, but they will revolutionise your life! Just watch out for the mogsplosh, I find that ours become 'doggified' after a while - now how could that be? The animals LOVE them

[Mally]

Blanket at the ready to add to the duvet.
2 hot water bottles and a microwave one ready to go.
Flask should I neef it.
Long johns.
Thermal vest.
Winter coat.
Warm jumpers.
I've got my winter bivvy gear ready too.
Torches are all ready to go with a supply of spare batteries.
Calor gas fire as back up all checked.
Ribena bought in.
Lots of chicken soup in.
Lots of tomato soup in.
Supply of salt.
Grit still to be bought.
Watm hats, gloves, scarves etc ready.
Yak tracks ready.

[Decaff]

Decaff, I have three snuggies, they are fab. They look naff, but they will revolutionise your life! Just watch out for the mogsplosh, I find that ours become 'doggified' after a while - now how could that be? The animals LOVE them

Please tell me they can be washed?? Not sure I could cope if they couldn't be bunged in the machine...

[Stasher]

Decaff, I have three snuggies, they are fab. They look naff, but they will revolutionise your life! Just watch out for the mogsplosh, I find that ours become 'doggified' after a while - now how could that be? The animals LOVE them

Please tell me they can be washed?? Not sure I could cope if they couldn't be bunged in the machine...

If slankets are the same as snuggies they are just a fleecy fabric. Bung em in the machine and we just hang them overnight in the kitchen to dry. Because it's a manmade fabric drying is a doddle.

[DustyDog]

Just bought winter tyres for car, bit early but needed new ones so just went for it, keeping going at the log store, reckon we got about eight months supply, building the food supply up too, living where we do, the highest market town in the country, you need a good supply of everything in winter, will tell the missus about those slanket thingies, cant stand those onesie thingies, i dont feel the cold myself, until it gets REALLY cold.

[nickdutch]

Nickdutch, point 10, excellent, never realised you could get a red light cover. Will hunt one out, thanks

The stuff in question is "rubylith" its not an actual red light cover, its a sheet of plastic that came in the dimensions of a large 16:9 aspect ratio computer screen. Its for laptops when you are having a stargazing astronomy setup with seriously expensive cool toys and hanging out with geeky nerdy types.

The "rubylith" I purchased on ebay nice and cheap and then cut to the shape of the round plastic lens of the 99p stores LED head torch which with new batteries is quite bright.

I figured that as blue tinted light is reputed to reduce the ability of the brain to produce the hormone of sleep (melatonin) I needed not only some whitish light sources of night, but also at least one that wouldn't screw with my melatonin levels which i could use with candles before bed, and because this stuff is also used to preserve night vision (got to be rubylith as thats a pure red), I figured I could double the purpose of it.

On another note, I am still using yellow lensed spectacles ("drivewear") in the evening to block blue light from the TV screen, computer screens, my mobile phone and any artificial light to help me produce melatonin on the run up to bed time. It does seem to help me as one out of many factors, to get off to sleep nicely.