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It's time to break out the survivalist mentality.
According to the Daily Express yesterday, we are due a "hurricane" over the next few days followed by an "Arctic Blast" whatever that is.
Scaremongering perhaps but a serious point to be made.
If you want to buy any kit for coping with the harsh winter conditions that are forecast for this year then now is the time to do it.
After last years winter and particularly the 12 and a half hour, 18 mile drive home ( in a pretty hardcore 4x4, I might add) along the M8 last December I now carry more kit in the boot of the car than Ray Mears but, by the time I ordered it last winter and it all arrived it was way too late.
If you need a snow shovel, winter tires or snow socks for the car or bags of grit for the path then this might be the time to get them coz ,if you don't, you'll be humped the minute the first flakes of snow start to fall and the unprepared masses descend and clean out every retailer from here to Athens.
I bought a set of Autosock snow socks for the wifes' car ( which I use to drive to work) and never got to use them because they didn't arrive till the end of January. The lorry delivering them was apparently stuck in the snow.
It's always better to have kit that you don't need than need kit that you don't have.
Anyway, Rant over.... the serious point of this post is that if there any particularly good (or bad) items of winter kit that you've used last year then let's have some reviews!
According to the Daily Express yesterday, we are due a "hurricane" over the next few days followed by an "Arctic Blast" whatever that is.
Scaremongering perhaps but a serious point to be made.
If you want to buy any kit for coping with the harsh winter conditions that are forecast for this year then now is the time to do it.
After last years winter and particularly the 12 and a half hour, 18 mile drive home ( in a pretty hardcore 4x4, I might add) along the M8 last December I now carry more kit in the boot of the car than Ray Mears but, by the time I ordered it last winter and it all arrived it was way too late.
If you need a snow shovel, winter tires or snow socks for the car or bags of grit for the path then this might be the time to get them coz ,if you don't, you'll be humped the minute the first flakes of snow start to fall and the unprepared masses descend and clean out every retailer from here to Athens.
I bought a set of Autosock snow socks for the wifes' car ( which I use to drive to work) and never got to use them because they didn't arrive till the end of January. The lorry delivering them was apparently stuck in the snow.
It's always better to have kit that you don't need than need kit that you don't have.
Anyway, Rant over.... the serious point of this post is that if there any particularly good (or bad) items of winter kit that you've used last year then let's have some reviews!
