Winter is coming.
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Not much really.
- Get the car serviced and given thorough check over.
- Turn the central heating on to see if everything works fine (in the autumn before the weather actually gets cold) and if necessary have it serviced/repaired.
Can’t anticipate everything but I’m getting there.
I got lucky! I was just heading out to the shops when I saw a contractor cutting my farmer neighbours hedge with a great big tractor and flail. Pulled in front of him and did a deal for the higher tops of the front hedge (just over two meters high when cut.) No ladder scrambling this year!
I had no idea what he’d do because I was on a timed pick up so left him to it.
Cracking job. I’ve just knackered myself sweeping up after him but I’m very pleased.
Car serviced and MOT’d
Heating boiler serviced. I can check the rads any time.
Couple of camps in prospect.
Just the fires and lanterns to keep the bogarts away and I’m ready for what it brings.
I got lucky! I was just heading out to the shops when I saw a contractor cutting my farmer neighbours hedge with a great big tractor and flail. Pulled in front of him and did a deal for the higher tops of the front hedge (just over two meters high when cut.) No ladder scrambling this year!
I had no idea what he’d do because I was on a timed pick up so left him to it.
Cracking job. I’ve just knackered myself sweeping up after him but I’m very pleased.
Car serviced and MOT’d
Heating boiler serviced. I can check the rads any time.
Couple of camps in prospect.
Just the fires and lanterns to keep the bogarts away and I’m ready for what it brings.
Both my son and I have appointments for flu and covid vaccinations at the end of the month, and we're both under 70.....we both have had health issues though, so perhaps that's also a factor in appointments.
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Here is the weather where I live. Next 10 days = 5C temperature and rain about every day.
(Plus 30mph gusts in the early morning)
My area on yellow warning for high winds 30mph+ and up to 50cm of rain.
Arrrgh!
I've got my inflatable canoe ready, I'm picking up my new wellies tomorrow, (I forgot today) and then I'll hunker down in case I get a bit wet, or hit by a windblown leaf.
Must take these warnings seriously. !!! Apparently there could even be a power cut!!!!!
I did buy a new torch today,( as I've given my cheap one away to an unprepared, torchless person to walk their dog with, ) and also a dozen more tealights, and a box each of aa and aaa batteries.
Slow cooker has a stew bubbling away.
Freezer and fridge full, can cupboard stocked with soup, peas, sweetcorn, tuna, and beanz.
What a relief, I'm ready. Bring it on!
Oh, hang on, .. ...that's normal autumn/winter life for me.
Arrrgh!
I've got my inflatable canoe ready, I'm picking up my new wellies tomorrow, (I forgot today) and then I'll hunker down in case I get a bit wet, or hit by a windblown leaf.
Must take these warnings seriously. !!! Apparently there could even be a power cut!!!!!
I did buy a new torch today,( as I've given my cheap one away to an unprepared, torchless person to walk their dog with, ) and also a dozen more tealights, and a box each of aa and aaa batteries.
Slow cooker has a stew bubbling away.
Freezer and fridge full, can cupboard stocked with soup, peas, sweetcorn, tuna, and beanz.
What a relief, I'm ready. Bring it on!
Oh, hang on, .. ...that's normal autumn/winter life for me.
What storm? Woke to dry roads, and sunshine. Trees are still and nothing seems to have happened at all.
I'm going to stop listening to the storm fearmongers and just get on with daily life.
Storm Benjamin was a total washout!
I'm going to stop listening to the storm fearmongers and just get on with daily life.
Storm Benjamin was a total washout!
It wasn’t as stormy as expected, though still very wet. I think I know what it’s like to be an unmasticated sweetcorn kernel, one minute stuck in a dark, cramped tube and the next in a pool of water.
I don’t think hooped bivvies are for me.
I don’t think hooped bivvies are for me.
Yeah, you’re definitely supposed to use a tarp in ideal circumstances. Though I can’t agree that the bivvy is fully waterproof as advertised. If you’re going to carry a tarp as well, it’d be lighter and more efficient to carry a tent or one of those mosquito net tents and a tarp.
My main issue with it is the lack of space, especially if you have broad-ish shoulders and in inflatable mat rather than a thin foam one.
I got the impression a number of bivvy users have their mat outside, they being rather more plump affairs these days. (The mats, not the users. Although, having said that...) But yeah, I know it'd not be for me either, for the same reasons. But hey, you gave it a shot.
Just had a quick gander at the various forecast models leading up to "Benjamin", and goodness, they really were all over the map with no real agreement on the track until extremely late in the day. Models that are usually reliable got it wrong, while outliers that you would normally dismiss were correct. I have some sympathy for the Met Office on this one.
Just had a quick gander at the various forecast models leading up to "Benjamin", and goodness, they really were all over the map with no real agreement on the track until extremely late in the day. Models that are usually reliable got it wrong, while outliers that you would normally dismiss were correct. I have some sympathy for the Met Office on this one.
Yeah, there are straps on the back to hold a mat underneath the bivvy, but then you get a wet mat and likely would want to carry a ground sheet as well to protect the mat from punctures, which adds another thing to carry. I just struggle to see the use case where the hooped bivvy is the best option.
Sorry, I am taking the thread off topic!
Now we can't have that can we.
I suspect, the design concept is you use just a simple closed cell foam mat so they don't absorb water. I have managed to stay dry in the rain in my BA Gore-Tex bivvy but I don't think I would rely on it and, like you, found it quite claustrophobic. I do use it under a tarp if it's blowing and rain/drizzle/snow is being blown into the sleeping space no matter which angle I pitch at.
OK, maybe a new thread is needed
But, no, no sign of the bad weather we were forecast - it is raining now though. I need to get the lamp oil in, check the main genny, get more logs up from the wood, and get the double gas burner and gas down from the loft - then 'bring it on'.
Quite a distance from the channel.
It's gone grey and murky now, a few drops of rain, but nothing significant at the moment. I now have my new wellies, and gortex coat, so if I have to go out, no worries.
I've been thinking back to my younger years and definatly seen worse weather than I'm seeing here now.
Thing is, it's that time of year, wind and wet are normal. I can remember walking the dog in much worse conditions.
Feet of snow was regular in winter.( Not just the dusting I see now. ) Havnt seen that in many years in fact, only once in the 25 yrs I've lived here.
Flooding is normal most years in Somerset. Its a wet place!
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