Author Topic: Cold in the old days - how did they do it? (Read 34717 times)

Sylvia · « **Reply #75 on:** December 16, 2012, 07:16:34 pm »

It's the mud that is getting to me. The dear dogs never complain about being cramped or even chilly, they'll put up with anything as long as we're together but I have to bite my tongue about the mud that's brought into the caravan.
I have to keep telling myself that we can cope, there are plenty worse off, people living on the streets with no income, no friends, no family and no hope. They would willingly swap with me!
AND, spring will come, hopefully early and lasting.

deepinthewoods · « **Reply #76 on:** December 16, 2012, 07:35:41 pm »

sylvia, hats off to you, your one tough cookie.
but, if you ever need anything, and i can help, please do call. ok.xx

RUSTYME · « **Reply #77 on:** December 16, 2012, 08:03:59 pm »

Yes Sylvia , the mud gets me too , it gets everywhere . Impossible to keep up with washing clothes here as well . No way of drying stuff either , it does get very hard to cope with .
3 springer spaniels don't help !
The permanent wet weather is beyond this year , it seems as if there is no let up at all .
Still , the mud does dry in the end , and spring will arrive , hopefully before everything goes mouldy .
Take care and keep warm mate .

Victorian Farmer · « **Reply #78 on:** December 17, 2012, 10:56:12 am »

Yes Friends a short winter will help ,we will soon be through December and only 2 months hard wether light nights march .I still think the coldist wether will be the end of January .Well have a nice Christmas and it will soon be spring .

goosepimple · « **Reply #79 on:** December 17, 2012, 12:11:07 pm »

Just been out poo picking

and it's positively balmy and springlike already

, long may it last .... except I would like a heavy frost on Christmas day just to make it festive

Lesley Silvester · « **Reply #80 on:** December 17, 2012, 12:45:35 pm »

If I feel the urge to look at snow over Christmas, I'd rather study the Christmas cards.

Ina · « **Reply #81 on:** December 17, 2012, 12:47:30 pm »

Quote from: Mad Goatwoman of Madeley on December 17, 2012, 12:45:35 pm

If I feel the urge to look at snow over Christmas, I'd rather study the Christmas cards.

So do I! Hard to feel "festive" if you are huddling against an ineffective radiator, trying to keep warm...

Lesley Silvester · « **Reply #82 on:** December 17, 2012, 03:11:24 pm »

Or scared to go out in case you slip.

It was beautifully

here this morning but back to the

now.

Ina · « **Reply #83 on:** December 17, 2012, 03:15:44 pm »

Dark and drizzly all day. No prospect of change for the better over the coming days - just a bit of heavy rain as light relief...

Sylvia · « **Reply #84 on:** December 17, 2012, 05:44:25 pm »

Dry today and the forecast good for tomorrow. Also a friend who's a cabinet maker gave me eight bin liners full of oak sawdust and shavings which I have put down in the gateway so that may soak up a bit of the liquid mud. I have taken to carrying the Yorkies and my friends mini-dacshunds in and out of the gateways in buckets otherwise they are swimming through it!
Dave, I don't think I'm tough so much as determined. I will not be beaten by this and all that cleaning gives me something to do.
I've always found doing something is the best solution to feeling down.

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