My fridge has packed up and we can't afford to get a new one! What should we do with my pens? This is worrying me as this has never happened before! Bit panicky! Help!!
A bag of ice is 99p in the supermarket, get a bag of ice go to the fruit section and collect as much bubble wrap as you can lay your hands on, When you get home, wrap the pens in 4/5 layers of the bubble wrap, pour the entire bag of ice all over them and cover all of them in another 5 or six layers of bubble wrap,
You can do this every 24hrs whilst you sort out refrigeration
Gum tree is a good place to get fridges for next to nothing sometimes people are moving or remodelling and want folks to take it away for free so they don't have to pay the council to take them as bulk waste.
Another place to try is freecycle online they have stuff for free there as well
All the best. You will be OK
I have lived in countries without reliable electricity, and I learnt a thing or two about how to preserve stuff without refrigeration.
If the fridge has only just died, You can wrap the pens in bubble wrap and put it in the freezer of the dead fridge it will take a good 10hrs before it starts to thaw unless you keep opening it.
The bubble wrap will insulate it from getting too cold since the freezer will still be freezing temperature