Preparing for winter – what you doin' ?

New heating system installed
Bags of grit and snow shovels bought
Winter tyres for the car ordered
New battery for the van fitted (bloody thing!)

Still need to lag some exposed pipes, once I can work out where they go and should be just about ready. Bring on the cold!

What about you lot?

dying a little (on the inside 🙁 please come back soon big glowing ball of gas in the sky 🙂

nothing needed doing here

Collecting nuts and other foodstuffs before hybernating.

I was thinking about packing the BBQ and garden furniture away.

New rads fitted to the heating system. Getting a new controller fitted in next week or so.
Gonna sort some more loft insulation out next week.

Toyed with winter tyres, but decided not to bother. Will probably regret it.

Going to have to swap over to winter tyres for the car, am thinking about making some spiked tyres for my bike, feel a garage bodging session coming on before it gets too cold.

Not much needing done here… Stuck proper mudguards on the hardtail though.

OTOH my dad just went out and bought 2 snow shovels- remembering that last year when the big snow arrived, he only had a garden trowel and a postholing shovel. But forgetting that as soon as the snow went away he bought 2 snow shovels.

I have studded tyres to go on the bike if we get frost and snow again

Fitting a low maintenance Alfine hub gear to save mech faff

Winter tyres on all 3 vehicles – 2 cars plus M’home. Snowshovels ready. Pulk for towing the Troutlet XC skiing in design phase. No skipass this winter due to Troutlet’s age. Will just buy daytickets as appropriate.

thought about buying a couple of sledges for the kids.

trying to deny that it’s on its way if truth be told.

Finishing drying my tears

sat in the garden having a beer in my shorts, quite warm out

Insulating my self via the medium of pies

Living in a constant state of denial.

About to bottle 5 gallons of cider and perry to go with 4 gallons of summer wine. I shall be drinking myself through to the spring equinox.

One car already has winter tyres in the garage, will order them for the other this year. They’ll probably go on when the clocks go back.

Otherwise it’s just tidying up the garden.

business as usual

Overshoes, bib longs, windproof jacket, training bike, big gloves, and an aim to lose a stone by new year.

Just found out that my next door neighbour has just started his new job and will be responsible for DRIVING THE SNOWPLOUGH!

Hallelujah. Best news I’ve had for a few hours anyway, but it means, I suspect, a whole lot less snow shovelling outside our houses.

Eh, it’s grim oop north.

Drinking coffee in front of a computer instead of insulting under the floor my chair is on. We were out on the MTB tandem in shorts and T-shirts earlier and there’s only a dusting of snow above 2300m.

I’ve given my longjohns their annual wash..

I honestly cant say snow has ever been a huge problem here on the South Staffs Arctic plaeau. If it gets that bad I’ll just stay in / go by bike / walk. I’m certainly not lashing out hundreds on tyres that will clutter up the garage for the rest of the year.
Fair does to all you who live in the sticks though. 🙂

Nothing – just another season innit, a bit colder and wetter

Im growing a beard apart from that not much else

laying down blubber here

Well winter in Manchester is the same as summer, except sometimes the rain is frozen so nothing really.

Just picked up a load of apples from a local farmer.
So this winter I will be mostly pissed on scrumpy 🙂

Still got a stash of unused grit from last year and some snow studs for my shoes (highly effective last year). Bought a new snow shovel today as Asda had some decent looking ones. Purchased some studded tyres for my Cross Check just in case the need arises but I shan’t bother getting winter tyres for the car; my employer prefers me to use hire cars for business mileage and if there is ice on the roads I’ll happily run the risk of bending somebody elses car out of shape. Mine can stay on the driveway.

Might buy some waterproof socks.

Waxing my XC skis.

need a pond heater so it doesn’t freeze over to a depth of 2in & kill the remaining fish.
other than that, I could do with a few days working from home 😉

Mostly i’ll be sitting back laughing at people ‘preparing’ for what will undoubtedly end up being a shit winter (and not shit in the good snowy way)

Making sure I know where the boiler is so I can turn the heating on. Making sure I know where warmer clothes are. Making sure I know where my big coat is. Need to order a new winter car tyre. That’s about it. Bring on the snowpocalypse.

Warmies top – check
Special needs socks – check
853 sticker applied – check.

just put a racing ralph on the back, looking forward wall to wall 20 degree sunshine tomorrow.

Probably going to have a good shite.

cannot comprehend why you’d need some sort of itinery to get ready for a British winter…..

Get in a couple of cartons of UHT milk.

Nowt really. Thought about fitting a mudguard on the hack if that counts 😐