Are you making your homes winter lockdown ready?

Whitewave ??

Certainly not at the moment. I've just come back from asking my neighbours if they fancy a garden party Sunday afternoon. We were sunbathing yesterday and it's hot again today.

Are you all assuming there will be a lockdown then?
Nooooo! Please no!
How many times did we say last time “at least it has come in the spring rather than October with the winter ahead of us” ?

I am certain another lockdown as severe as the first would be an absolutely last resort for the government and I do hope they don’t over-react to the slight increase in cases recently.

The increase is only to be expected isn’t it? Many more people are being tested, and the increase is mainly in younger people who have mild symptoms and recover quickly.
So long as hospital admissions and deaths don’t shoot up I think it just has to be accepted.

We can’t possibly shut the economy down again. As it stands millions are expected to have lost their jobs.

We all just have to accept the situation and get on with our lives as best we can.

The title of the thread sounds as if it's from a glossy mag article.

No, I'm not. It'll be as shabby as ever in mine.

Being in Scotland I shall ‘coorie down’ this winter as I do every winter.

Although we don’t get such severe winters as 20/30 years ago, old habits die hard and I like to be prepared, both sustenance and entertainment wise. My current crafting stash will keep me going for some time to come!

I would feel too guilty to buy any outdoor heating appliance, they’re dreadful for the environment. If it’s too cold to sit out without a blanket and a hot water bottle, I wouldn’t be outdoors anyway.

I’m going to B&Q later for paint and emulsion for the 2 bedrooms I’ve still to do. It’ll give me something to do if there’s another lockdown and if I don’t survive the winter the house will be freshly painted ready for my AC to put on the market. Win win!

I have collected toilet rolls and kitchen rolls and also stocked up tins but that was more because of Brexit and what might come from that, rather than covid. I have plenty of craft plans ahead and they're organised. I'm knitting a throw for my bed from odds and ends of wool and I have a variety of other throws. I've started catch cooking stews etc for the freezer. The only things I haven't bought yet are scented candles. I love the spicy smells of autumn and winter. So getting there.

I’m sorry to say that that hygge word irritates me! Don’t we have our own - cosiness? - and do we really need the Scandis to tell us how to do it?

IMO the whole hygge thing was a very clever marketing tool dreamt up by someone (who’s probably congratulating themselves at how amazingly well it worked) to make us buy ever more Stuff in the form of throws, candles, etc.

Two years ago a Swedish friend of mine returned to Stockholm after many years here, and bought herself a very nice flat, but before deciding she sent me umpteen estate agents’ blurbs/photos of positively the most un-hygge-like flats imaginable - virtually all in stark and minimalist white, black and grey - barely a hint of colour, let alone anything remotely cosy-looking anywhere. (Hers is not at all stark now, I hasten to add.)

It’s not just flats, either - on a visit last year we had dinner at her son’s relatively large house, and it was just the same - all very nice but white, white, minimalist white everywhere, nothing hygge-ish at all.

Maybe Sweden’s different from Norway and Denmark when it comes to these things, though - I dare say someone else will know.

We've seen a new housing estate which is called Hygge, can't remember where it is but it is in this country.

Hygge Park at Keynsham

Or K E Y N S H A M if you prefer

Callistemon

The problem is that I want to go out more now, I'm fed up with staying in.

That's how I felt this morning when I headed off for a long awaited visit to the hairdresser.

It was a new girl as mine has left. Everything looked OK but as I was wearing a mask and had taken off my glasses I didn't notice until I got home and looked in the mirror that she has hacked off a lump on one side that doesn't match the length of the other.

It's no good complaining and going back because she'll have to hack a bit off the other side to level it up and then I'll look even more ridiculous. I'll just have to let it grow and then find somebody who actually knows how to cut hair!!

Bring on hygge. At least nobody will be able to see me hunkered down in front of the logburner.

Off at an etymological tangent here - I bet the hygge word is closely related to ‘hug’.

Ha! Just before posting I thought of looking it up in my big fat Oxford dictionary:

hug - origin mid 16th century, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian hugga , comfort, console.

I’ve just bought new cushions and a throw for the sofa. Put new batteries in my lanterns and timed them to come on at 6pm.Also having a new patio door and window fitted next week, to keep us warm and cosy. Hope we have more good weather though yet, looking promising.

Another one here who is fed up staying at home so not really ready for hibernation. Not until I have visited my daughter and grandson anyway, unless even more restrictions are put in place before then.

Grannynannywanny

I’m going to B&Q later for paint and emulsion for the 2 bedrooms I’ve still to do. It’ll give me something to do if there’s another lockdown and if I don’t survive the winter the house will be freshly painted ready for my AC to put on the market. Win win!

Hilarious ! Can't say you're not a proper little ray of sunshine!

Every cloud has a silver lining
Grandmafrench !

This last week I’ve had enough logs to see me through winter delivered, leaky kitchen sink & tap replaced, 2 new loo seats fixed, inherited cat flap sealed up, drafty window sealed and conservatory blinds removed, cleaned & replaced. All this before the latest edict today. Will have to fill oil tank, top up on yeast, loo rolls & pasta (just joking) and stock up with acrylic paper, envelopes & stamps ready for home made Christmas cards ?. Anything else....? Hopefully by then it’ll all be over

I'm still sleeping on top of the bed, with the fan on!

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

I’m awaiting delivery of another freezer as I only have 3 freezer drawers in the fridge-freezer. I do hope we don’t have to completely lock down, I’m sick of my own company and get very depressed.
Please don’t buy outdoor heaters, think of the grandchildren‘s future in this world we are ruining.

If you want some quality new wool throws/blankets I would recommend looking at Bronte by Moon a Yorkshire company. They are not cheap but they do lots of styles, and are very nice, I have two.
We have replaced a 14 yr old washing machine which has been making funny noises since January, so don’t want to take chances if we are locally locked down in winter. I don’t think they will lock down the whole country again.

Witzend

Off at an etymological tangent here - I bet the hygge word is closely related to ‘hug’.

Ha! Just before posting I thought of looking it up in my big fat Oxford dictionary:

hug - origin mid 16th century, probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian hugga , comfort, console.

The word hygge always makes me think of higgledy piggledy, Witzend. Although I don’t know if I’ve spelt those words correctly!

I think the white walls etc are useful in the North so light bounces around a space. I like pale walls for that purpose as it is dark too soon and for too long where I am. In addition, it rains a lot so light walls and furniture help. But it's a matter of taste, isn't it? I like the term 'coorie doon' and prefer it to hygge.

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.

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