Countdown to Christmas 2020 (Thread 11): The One with the Three Freezers

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New thread again. Doesn't seem 5 minutes since the last one! 😂

Just seen this
www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/stack-returns-as-strike-hits-port-234353/

Thanks Wreck that's where my DH had to come off, roll on 31st Dec I don't think

It's looking like our Santa visit is going to be cancelled. We've booked to go somewhere in Donegal and they've gone into a lockdown.

Oh no, Neros. We're not doing very well with Christmas plans, are we?

I wonder if kew will be cancelled.

Erm...just a thought, but if one of you knew someone with a santa outfit you could do a zoom/face time with santa seeing as the real santa is self isolating with rudolf

Sounds like you've been very productive Firefly

That sounds awful 70. If this had happened when I was at uni I think I would have risked the trouble and gone home anyway - I don't imagine 18/19 yo me would have taken Covid seriously.

Sorry about your Santa visit Neros

I've walked the dog, cleaned the kitchen and paired up some socks since finishing work. It was cold out and I'm debating popping the heating on for an hour as I'm so cold 🥶

Crazy I've got the heating on

I had it on earlier, Boots, as it was below 18° in the lounge!

Que sera sera. Let's hope they find a vaccine ASAP.

Heating was on here today too. It was bitter this morning. But I normally run cold anyway too.

We are still in summer mode. It's a new house so it's designed to hold heat. DH is nesh so I suspect he'll be attempting to close the bedroom window soon and there are vents above all the windows that are currently still open. We try to aim for 1st October at the earliest if possible for the big switch on and it looks like we should make it.

Heating on here too Crazy

We haven't even had a frost yet so definitely no heating on here. Although with our new heating system I don't need to be so stingy

We rarely get a frost. But the lounge was below 18° and that's my limit for the heating going on or not (Victorian semi, not known for heat-retaining!).

We have the heating set to come on at 18 degrees, but it's not cold enough for it to kick in yet.

Although it's colder upstairs, actually, because I struggle to sleep at the moment unless it's Arctic, but the Hive is downstairs so it won't kick in.

I would have been gutted not to be able to spend Christmas at home while at Uni, although I lived at home anyway so wouldn't have been an issue. It was always going to be a quiet one for us this year, but we still won't be able to do half the things we usually do!

For the dairy free amongst us, www.dairyfreechocolates.com has its Christmas stock online.

I'd have loved an excuse to not go home. One year my parents' boiler broke and there was no hot water or heating for the whole period. I went back to uni early!

I told my Dh we had better get a few things in and he was with me about it , however he soon tucked into my Brexit stash when we were in lockdown!
No heating here yet , shall we see who can withstand the call of the CH the longest
MM it's also my dining room but we eat everything on our laps here , proper pigs we are

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Morning!

The days rattle along after you pass 100, don't they?!

I'm getting up for my exercise soon. The excitement! 😂

Morning!

MrsMad we eat on laps here too, unless its a roast dinner. I actually prefer the table but DH tends to use it to work on in the week so it's always covered in schoolbooks, pens and random pieces of paper.

I didn't end up putting me heating on. I sat on the sofa in fleece pjs, thick socks and a blanket on my legs - DH sat next to me in boxers and T-shirt and said he didn't feel cold at all 🙄

Now I'm just putting off getting out of bed. I got up at 5:45 to put the dog out and he was whining for a wee (unusual) and it was bloody cold, like a Christmas winter morning

Crazy you and your DH are the opposite way around to me and mine. I'm wandering around in long shorts and a t shirt and he's got 4 layers and a fleece on and is frozen
I've put the heating on already for DH, and taken him a in bed
The cats have had their first breakfast of the day and are now asleep on my dining table.

Our heating is set for 18 too. It's 20 this morning. Chilly outside.

Morning all, Happy Rudy Day!
DH caved yesterday too (I didn’t put any pressure for a change!) and turned on heating a few hours a day. Manic day for both of us today and his snoring was awful last night so I’m feeling very meh 😑. Very early night needed. But there is a lovely smell in the kitchen still after last night’s baking - Pity I only read about this cake lasting well about for 8 weeks before it starts to dry out after it was in the oven (I’ll feed it whiskey to keep it moist I think).

Biddy that's a shame. Unless you use this one as a trial run and do another for Christmas 🤔 You won't be as anxious making the next, now you're an old hand at it!

Morning.

It's raining here but not cold.

Dd woke up at 1.30 crying that she was afraid of the dark. I think she actually woke up because it was so cold and she was in short pjs. She'll be wearing fluffy pjs tonight.