Friday Fun – winter weather fun!
How did you enjoy the big freeze recently? Did the snow make your journey to work difficult, or did you delight in the winter wonderland? Today we’d like to hear your winter weather tips so share in the comment box below.
Maybe you stayed indoors with a cup of cocoa and a good book. Or you wrapped up warm in winter woolies, carrying a flask of your favourite Cafédirect drink with you and had fun in the snow. Did you make a snowman (or snow elephant!) and decorate with coffee beans? Whatever it was we’d love to know.
To enter Friday Fun: Post your winter weather tips in the comment box below. As usual, the most creative entry will win so be as inventive as you can!
The winner will win our Winter Weather Kit (pictured below) which includes a Bodum travel mug (which you can personalise with your favourite photo!), Cafédirect San Cristobal Drinking Chocolate, Everyday Tea and Machu Picchu Instant coffee. Prizes can only be sent to a UK or Ireland postal address.
You have until 10a.m. Monday 18th January to post your response. The most creative or interesting entry will be chosen by judges from Cafédirect and announced on Monday on our blog.
Good luck!
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And the winner is……………… Lisa who drank a cup of coffee inside whilst watching her son build a snowman outside.
We also really loved Jane’s idea of commuting in ski gear and being snow-verdressed so have decided to send her some coffee too!
Buy a St.Bernard! fill the keg aroung it’s neck with nice hot coffee and if your neighbours get snowed in you can send it to warm them up! (remember though a dog is for life not just for snow)
Stay trapped in the house for 4 weeks whilst it thaws, due to pushchair, huge hill, snow and ice incompatibility. When toddler and 4 year old get cabin fever and run madly around the living room singing ‘Baa, Baa Pink Sheep’ – hide in a cupboard nursing a calming cup of coffee, ocassionally peeking out to check they’ve not smashed anything or fallen over.
You think I’m joking! It was a hard couple of weeks!
Most people, it seems, would rather not have the snow. So, if the snowfall has been sufficient, offer to clear the snow away for your neighbours, which will make you nice and warm [from sweaty exercise, plus added altruism
]. Then squash it all together [more warming, sweaty exercise] until you have, can you guess yet?, yes, an igloo! Of sorts. Brew some Fairtade coffee and go inside your cosy [albeit temporary and lacking in a view] new conservatory to enjoy 
We were snowed in up in the borders & had no heating either. So, it was all in 1 room with the log fire. We drank hot drinks (all ft!) and played board games, including the kids. We did get out to build a snowman, but only in short bursts as we couldn’t risk getting too cold!
If your path is very icy & you have no grit left, use cat litter it works just as good xx
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Grabbed some gloves,scarf and hat
Went outside,built snowman fat
Beans for eyes,carrot for nose
Added coloured scarf I suppose
Went indoors,grabbed CAFEDIRECT
Brewed up coffee quite perfect!!!!!!!!!!
just stay in bed as soon as it starts snowing
I drank a cup of coffee inside whilst watching my son build a snowman outside I did give him a thumbs up, who said parents dont get involved anymore!
Check up on elderly neighbours. Take a jar of coffee with you and make them a cup and ideally leave them a flask of coffee for later. Make yourself a cup also and stay for a chat
Drown Sneezies and Sniffles
I’ve been told
With perfect partners -
Coffees and cold
make yourself a big mug of san cristobal drinking chocolate, curl up on the couch , close your eyes and dream of the sunny climes of peru……. oh actually we’re here with all of the growers.
peru crew x
Buy some traction aids for your shoes so you can get out and about. Saw them too late this year but will be buying some so I’ll have them for next time.
Place a small vase inside a larger flower vase and drop coffee beans
in the larger vase .Place winter greenery into the inner vase Very attracrive
effect Reminds me to make some Cafe Direct.
S for see how the snowflakes fall.
N for never run too fast through snow, never at all.
O for observe those around you; give your neighbours a call.
W for work hard on your snowman and make him nice and tall.
M for make a nice hot drink in a big mug, not small.
A for admire the icicles before Jack Frost takes the haul.
G for grit your paths so you don’t end up in a sprawl.
I for imagine your childhood and the snow fun you can recall
C for check on your pets – get them in before nightfall.
Commute in ski gear. You might look a bit snow-verdressed, but it’s nice and cosy and you’re well padded if you slip over on the ice.
To make a pure tasting cup of Cafedirect, get a nice large mound of pure white snow and boil it up. Snow tastes so nice, oh and dont go near the yellow snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Work up a sweat clearing snow from elderly neighbours paths and running up and down to the shops for them.
winter in the tropics!!
When its cold
Icy or wet
Numb fingers you will get,
Take out your gloves
Eat warm food
Read my advice and all will be good.
@grannysmither on twitter
Put a pair of socks over your boots to give them a better grip!
Bike riding in the snow: Even if you can’t see the kerb, it is still there! Ouch!
Don’t throw away those old clothes that are only fit for recycling. Take off the bath panel & pack them around your bath. Also use any bubble wrap you have left over from Christmas deliveries. The insulation will keep your bath warmer for much longer – a real benefit when the weather’s cold & you want to relax & warm up with a nice bath.
save all loose change through year and stock up the cupboards at start of december incase the weather turns so bad you cannot leave home – also worth while keeping a few cartons of LONG LIFE MILK
Its been jolly cold hasn’t it. Hope everone has been Ok.
Here are my tips for survivng the big chill!!
Keep curtains drawn and doors closed to block out draughts.
Wear lots of light layers of warm clothes (rather than one chunky layer).
Keep active if possible,
Try and keep your home heated to temp 64 to 70°F, but if you cant heat the whole house, then just heat the room you’re in.
And lastly have lots of hot drinks and at least one hot meal a day if possible.
some kids dont like hot drinks so i make sure i have plenty of hot chocolate in so when they return home from school to warm them up i have a cup ready for them
I buy dishwasher salt, as it’s thicker, hence gets more space covered.
Stay in as much as possible! Hubby works nights, so he suffers the most, he has his shovel with him then I make him a flask of coffee, loads of sarnies, pack him a duvet and pillow.
I also wear, should I say, thermal long jones & vest! even at home, as well as outside, and I do the same for the girls, the heating bills are so high, so this helps as well.
xx
For those with children, have a fun craft session with old magazines, glue and scissors and make a collage. Then go out and build a snowman. The come in and eat soup to warm up. You can bake together or put on a play. Also, arrange play dates in case school is shut to stave off the boredom.
For the parents, keep blankets in the car, bread in the freezer and tins of beans in the larder in case you get snowed in the house.
Make sure you have got flat grippy cosy boots for walking about in, otherwise you will get cold toes and slip all over the place
Buy a load of supermarkets own salt and store over the winter months to spray over your paths. It was a godsend for us this year
When you have to go out in the car, include an emergency pack e.g. sleeping bag, jump leads, shovel, food (biscuits, soup – make sure you have a tin opener!), extra clothes, a book etc.
Or work at home like I do, so you don’t have to worry about the snow. Unfortunately though it also means I can’t get to take any snow days, so have had no time off