I’ve stockpiled tinned food, and a gas stove to heat it on, have the shoe grips and the thermals ready, the house is well insulated, I’ve got a wind up lantern and torch…

Is there anything I’ve overlooked?

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 think 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 😐

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?

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:

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

20 tonnes of logs
4×4
spare 4×4
4×4 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.