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  • [Deleted User]
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    edited 18 November 2015 at 12:25PM
    Karmacat wrote: »
    As to reading mine all the way through - nooooooooooooo! :rotfl: It's not really a conventional debt or even mortgage free diary thread - it mostly just follows my low-cost interests, so its a bit weird :D but I appreciate the thought :j

    That's why it's such a lovely place to visit and a joy to read, KC:j. A real tonic sometimes on a bad day:T

    Unlike a lot of debt-busting threads (and yours isn't one of those anyway) it's not at all doom and gloomish (apart from the occasional reappearance of the dreaded mould;)) . It's a bit like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, we never know what we're going to get on here:rotfl:. you seem to attract some of the most interesting posters on MSE:T
  • Goldiegirl
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    Karmacat wrote: »
    As to reading mine all the way through - nooooooooooooo! :rotfl: It's not really a conventional debt or even mortgage free diary thread - it mostly just follows my low-cost interests, so its a bit weird :D but I appreciate the thought :j


    I wouldn't say weird.... more eclectic :D


    There's something here for most people and I've picked up all sorts of snippets of information here
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  • beanielou
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    My mum had one of those microchip cat flaps & it never ever worked properly.
    I have one that my boy has something on his collar to activate it but have still had the very odd problem a while back with other cats coming in.
    The joys of our furry friends :rotfl:
    My boy likes a bit of vet bed to lol on now and then. So easy to wash & dries so quickly.
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    You can also buy it on a roll.
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  • Cheery_Daff
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    Well I confess I know little about cats :o We always had them when I was little - they used to sleep in the shed :o :rotfl: had a litter tray and a bed in there but it wasn't exactly palatial :o I found one of them dead in there when I was a teenager (shhe was old!!) My mum wasn't too sentimental about such things although she's a bit of a softy now - the later two (who were rescued at 5 weeks old after being dumped on the vet's doorstep) were rather spoiled with one of those radiator bed thingies :D

    All long gone now, and my mum'squite enjoying her no-pet freedom after all these years :rotfl: She's even replaced the living room carpet now there's nothing to tear it up again :rotfl:
    S
    o no cat-related advice from me, sorry :o

    But exciting about only having 41 weeks left!! :j :j that doesn't feel like long at all! I'm sure I remember whe it was 84! :j good idea to avoid burnout too :D :j
  • Karmacat
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    edited 18 November 2015 at 6:48PM
    What lovely feedback about the thread :o thank you all so much :beer: I think we need some :bdaycake: and some :coffee::coffee::coffee: after that, caff or decaff, as you like :)

    I'm going to watch out for the radiator thing and the microchip cat flap ... so far it seems to be a case of going with what's on offer at any one affiliate scheme - PetPlanet, that CBC mentioned, uses a company called Webgains to manage their affiliates - so I think its a case of join one central affiliate place at a time, and see what each has got to offer... Gives me some great ideas though, thank you all :kisses3:

    Cheery - thats right, I *did* begin the countdown up in those numbers - horrendous :rotfl: I appreciate you don't have product info, but I absolutely love your cat stories (well, except finding one dead :eek:) ... they're tough, CBC's is a rabbiter. Whereas mine never killed anything bigger than a moth, and even those big spiders were beyond them :rotfl:

    I've been watching that pottery programme on the Beeb, via iplayer - not for Demi Moore in Ghost :rotfl: but because of the creativity and because my first fiance was a member of a pottery family and it was just around all the time.
    Not sure how I segued into the above little paragraph - I suppose I was downloading ep 3 today and it stuck in my brain :o all sorts of stuff gets stuck in there ...

    Mind you, I've also been sorting paperwork like crazy, its gone mad this year, hidden in all sorts of cubby holes - I've got to start all over again to find out where everything is :o for the tax, for the pension, for new accounts and loans - can't do any of that without knowing what I've got...

    50 points for a yougov survey...
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  • Karmacat
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    Oh, and I have an official diagnosis from the NHS of burnout, which is why my retirement is set in stone. I fully expect that when I retire, my energy levels will return to pre-burnout times, in an age-appropriate way of course :D at which time my writing career will move into fiction, like Rachel Abbott: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rachel-Abbott/e/B0068FBVCW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_19?qid=1447921349&sr=1-19

    :j:j:j

    At which point I will buy a camper van with satellite uplink and pootle about the continent :)
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  • Cheery_Daff
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    Good luck finding your paperwork! Love your last sentence about your camper van and pootling round Europe :D :j :j

    I'd love to be good at pottery (I wrote 'pottering' then - I'm plenty good at that! :rotfl: ) The only time I've really tried is at school, we used a kind of coil method to make what was meant to be a kind of hip flask... :rotfl: Mine's absolutely enormous, completely useless for anything, ugly and won't stand up, but I can't bring myself to get rid of it :rotfl:
  • Karmacat
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    Right, I'm Doing Admin ...

    1. Finally renewed my professional insurance policy, the last full year I need to do that. Interestingly, I'm now insured for corporate manslaughter!!!

    2. Filled in, scanned and am about to send off a request for a future pension assessment :)

    3. Am now resuming clickbank analysis :)
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  • gallygirl
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    Karmacat wrote: »
    I fully expect that when I retire, my energy levels will return to pre-burnout times, in an age-appropriate way of course :D at which time my writing career will move into fiction, like Rachel Abbott: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rachel-Abbott/e/B0068FBVCW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_19?qid=1447921349&sr=1-19
    So, I read that as 'at which time my wrestling career will move'. Seemed to make perfect sense somehow :rotfl:.
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  • Karmacat
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    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I was very physical as a teenager, it's true ... but that was ballet, dontcha know :D

    Am wrestling (geddit? :D) with flow charts at the mo, and have discovered yet more tax-type paperwork in my inbox, of all places :eek: I mean really, why put it there? Daft :D
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