Are you making your homes winter lockdown ready?

Well as I’d just had hand surgery before the first lockdown I think I’ll do a whole lot of sorting out and clearing out if we have another lockdown. I couldn’t do any of that sort of stuff first time round because of my hand.

I have had a new washer, old one groaned it’s way through lockdown, and now eyeing up fridge freezer which is also making peculiar noises. Can anyone advise on how to buy integrated fridge freezers? This has been in since we bought the house and am worried another won’t fit. They only give overall dimensions, not individual measurements for fridge and freezer doors.

On the same topic, but slightly at a tangent, are there things you would do differently should we face another lockdown?

I know that I would probably not aim to fill my freezer in case I didn’t get another delivery slot (all those sausages - why?) and I think I would try to declutter the garage while the council dump is still open !

I've had the boiler serviced and bought extra toilet rolls.
And I might do an online course to keep my brain alive.

I don’t think I’ve ever deep cleaned anything, although when wearing reading specs, everything appears magnified x 100 and I occasionally feel embarrassed enough to do a bit of a ‘spring clean’.

I'm not thinking about it yet. Should I, though? When the lockdown hit I wasn't really ready but in general it was fine, I had all the necessary things at home except for the ideas on self-entertaining. Guess this time I should make myself ready for a winter lockdown and make a list of things I want to do or to learn, so that I won't be bored. I thought about digitizing some of the old photos I have and making them look better, I've been really into it lately after the Family tree article . And some backing will also be a thing to do!

I’ve just bought a 16kg bag of SR flour and have about 8kg of plain flour so I will be able to bake. I shall look into buying some strong flour and yeast too.

Oh dear. In that case my kitchen has never been deep clean. It’s not visibly dirty, but the cupboards could perhaps do with a wipe.

I'm not an expert either but the kitchen at work was deep cleaned sometimes. We took sandwiches on those days.
It sounds good, doesn't it!
I suppose clean out the cupboards, clean cupboard tops and doors, windows, blinds, tiles, scrub floor on hands and knees etc
Perhaps some people do that every day!

Why “deep clean” Callistemon? Is deep cleaning different to normal cleaning, and if so how? I’m not an expert in the cleaning department ?

Actually queengran I loved your post when I read it this morning especially after reading the depressing news re Covid. It really has given me something else to think about so that I am actually looking forward to cosy nights, good books, cuddling up to my cat until he gets fed up and scratches me! I think I might splash out on an electric log/coal effect fire to warm my lounge up and make it more cosy. Lovely to hear about what other posters are doing as well. Keep the ideas coming it’s making me feel a whole lot better.

If we have another lockdown that knocks my new kitchen on the head.
Just as well I dithered and didn't order one.

Does that mean I have to deep clean this one (including the oven)?

No I ll just carry on as normal

?. Merlot.
I’m more concerned about my lack of chin. It seems to have receded so much that I now call it neck

And if you think I would put a photo of my wild locks on Gransnet,

I'm more concerned about my chin(s)

We’re returning to our home in Wales next week where we’ll be quarantined for two weeks which is the price paid for 10 lovely weeks in our little Casa in Spain.

We’ve had the bestest time eating out, meeting friends etc. all done obeying the space and hygiene rules with not a drop of rain to spoil it.

I’m planning to decorate the sitting room, change settee covers, cushions and curtains (bought earlier before lockdown) and have a stash of craft stuff, books, Netflix etc. and will bake and cook to my heart’s content if we have to do it over.

Oh please - not a severe lockdown! Maybe two weeks as a ‘whack-a-mole’ response á la Boris.

We endured 9 weeks in Spain in one of the worlds harshest lockdowns. Not even allowed out for an hour of exercise (and the Civil Gardia were patrolling). Even children weren’t allowed out to play.

I cried when I saw the little ones (one child only with each adult) when they first appeared on the very quiet main road that first Sunday, holding their mummies hands and wearing their masks.

Adults were allowed out the following week.

It was very hard. I’d hate to do it again. All the fat cushions, throws and jigsaw puzzles in the world wouldn’t make that bearable a second time.

It's grown a bit now, Greeneyedgirl

And if you think I would put a photo of my wild locks on Gransnet, well - no
oh, for a sleek, shiny bob.

Cwtch is a great Welsh word for hug, and encompasses so much more.
Pics please of “dog chewed” locks Merlot and “shaved” similar Callistemon

I shall carry on calling it Higg, Witzend

Although I think I knew it was pronounced differently.
How do they pronounce it in Keynsham, I wonder.
We can't ask Horace Batchelor.

Yes we are getting ready. Oil tank full. Wood for burner ordered. We bought a few things last time to keep us occupied. One was a jigsaw. It took us 4 months to complete. Might get another.
Then we want to decorate the living room and move plants in the garden. So all that plus cooking from scratch and a daily walk did us well last time .

I just googled how to pronounce hygge and it’s hue-guh in Danish, so I’m guessing that ‘hug’ did indeed come to us via Old Norse, with the Vikings.
You’ll have to excuse me, but I do love nosing out this sort of thing!

merlotgran

^merlotgran a new (to me) girl cut mine just before lockdown and it still hasn't recovered.^

DH wanted me to go back and complain but they would just cut the other side (which actually looks OK) to match. I don't want short hair, just my usual layered bob!!

He says the back looks like the dog has chewed it.

Good job I'm not going anywhere for a while.

The top hair at the back of my head must have been shaved, it's still only about an inch and a half long.

Think I'll get a couple of extra packs of loo rolls and kitchen roll, kitchen foil etc. and I'm stocking up on tinned tomatoes, beans and custard. A big tin of cocoa too, I think, and the specialist tea we like. Lots of books on reserve from the library but I also love my Kindle; I've just bought the box set of "Murder One" from many years ago which DH has never seen and which I found riveting at the time. We also still have an old VHS player and are going to revisit "I Claudius" and "The Forsyte Saga" so that will be interesting and keep us entertained.

Re the cosy factor, plenty of autumny sorts of scented candles, a couple more cushions - although DH doesn't get the point of cushions - another soft fleecy throw. We've got plenty of well-dried logs for the woodburner, The freezer is shortly to undergo a defrost ready for a refill and the slow cooker is coming back out again. I LOVE autumn!

Oh those do look nice greeneyedgirl - Very hygge-ish . Thanks for the recommendation.