Breaking Through, Travelling On

Dehydrator is on (nettles and young blackberry leaves don't smell as nice as lemon balm. Just sayin').

Washing machine is on, bed half done.

Diversionary emails - sigh. Number One. An older lady on freegle who started by telling me I was her soulmate, and is now (still without us exchanging the goods that were the start of the whole thing) emailing and expecting us to meet up at no notice, while refusing to set a time within the next 3 days in the *next* email. For a square foot of insulation that I replied about in a moment's impulse, I really don't need that ...

Number Two. Because of the blog I run, I get journalists wanting to interview me every so often. One has turned up who's funded by christian evangelical groups, masquerading as anthropologists, and tries to identify cults. In other words, she wants to kipper me ... luckily I've just been drafting an email not sending it, and my list of requests before I agree to look at her emailed questions is a joy to behold :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I may even *send* that version of my email

If I decide to send it, I'll pm you a copy :rotfl: I'm off out now to a *physical* post box for poorly relly.

The list:
- change bed, get bedding on the line
done, but still not finished the entire job

- bit of scanning, then ...

- finish backing up computer

- use dehydrator! That comes first!
Yes! Blimey, the nettles and blackberry leaves are shrinking away to nothing!

- transfer money to my sister as part of the inheritance shenanigans.
Cashed the ISA, money is on its way to me.

- cook lentils (several portions)

- card to poorly relly
Done, and just off now to the post.

- email to friend
Done :beer:

- weeding.
Do the blackberry and nettle leaves count? :rotfl:



6/9, and I always planned to do the undone stuff *last*

ZTD wrote: »

OK..I'll bite...what does kipper mean in this context?

It means set me up for a fall - parade me on *her* version of Circles of the Strange. Given the religious funding, possibly as a heretic? Satanist? Who knows!

You do seem to move in rather more auspicious Circles of the Strange than I do...

I like the Circles of the Strange :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: all my interests lie there, except for genealogy and cats but everyone else there is mad, except me

Unfortunately, life is mostly water with a few floaty bits...

This is glorious, Z :j:j:j

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Oh dear to your odd emails. Freegler lady does sound more trouble than a square foot of insulation is worth! :eek:

Yep, I've drawn a line there. I feel sad for her, but I have enough trouble looking after myself right now.

Sorry if I've missed it, but are you drying nettles and blackberry leaves for tea? Or something else? Can you do things like dry apple rings in your dehydrator? (Sorry, lots of questions and I have a *vague* memory that you may have already talked about dehydrator so when I'm not on holiday I'll do a proper search to save you typing it all out again )

Not a problem! You can do apple rings (though I'll wait to experiment with that till the apples are ready later this year, there are dozens round here that go begging each year). My ambition, though, is to dry different "greens" - lemon balm, nettles, blackberry leaves, rosemary, hawthorn, chives, good king henry, anything and all thats **green** and end up making my own salsa and pesto - must get some basil plants going very very soon!

I'm chuffed at the response to the email enquiry from the journalist. My anonymous email is now *fully* anonymous, I finally figured out how to change the name its sent from, to the pseudonym I chose for my kindle books, feel very happy about that.

And KnitWitch - I blanded my response right down, stopped editorialising, basically, just "please send me your questions and we'll see".