£70 a day's what the panda will pay!

pandapaws

Here, catch...

(If that was possible, you'd realise that there aren't any left - I got the last one. Must have words with DH later!)

BTW, congratulations on the marathon Hypno. I haven't caught up with your new diary yet, I bet it's already thousands of pages long! Let me know if anything exciting is happening as there's a chance I might never have the time to catch up properly again!

hypno06

Ah, I see I got the diet version - probably just as well.......:rolleyes:

Nothing exciting going on in my part of the world - still recovering from the marathon.......or is that just me being a lazy mare :rolleyes:

Apart from that, work work work, running the kids around, avoiding housework - nothing much changes :cool:

Keeping_Positive

Sorry about the avatar Panda it was one of the first things I thought of when thinking of updating my old one. Cant imagine why:whistle:

retrocircles

White fireplace, sounds lush! I did a mystery shop for Sunday lunch today, I really need to keep an eye out for more!

Karmacat

Hello Panda! Thank you for what you wrote when I was closing my diary, that was lovely. I'm back on mse now, tho not opening a new diary (yet!). I've been doing little bits of mse work, but mostly decluttering, I haven't felt able to concentrate on much. Lots better now.

pandapaws

Hi KC, brilliant to hear from you, it wouldn't be the same without you around. Feel free to hijack this diary for any rantings/baffling remarks about trading for as long as you want until you feel up to another one. Good luck with the decluttering - I'm on that one myself at the moment too.

I have a plan...

We have a double garage full of tat, plus half-a-friend's garage of the same. I desperately want to convert the garage into useful space - build a wall 3ft in so the front still looks like a garage, but the back is a large garden room. But because it's packed to the rafters, we can't get anywhere with it. Stuff all needs to be removed for a few months so we can do the work, get rid of what we don't need (about half) and put the remaining half back in some semblance of order.

Had the idea that we could stick absolutely everything back in storage, but this would cost a fortune, plus be inconvenient for travel etc - it would end up just being dumped and forgotton about again. So, I've come up with a no-cost solution...



Back garden, full of all our treasures, for as long as it takes to get everything sorted. No cost (we've already got the tent), easy access, weatherproof (I hope).

Will this work, or am I mad?:o:D

Karmacat

Hiya! Thank you Panda, I do appreciate it. I keep on feeling a bit better every couple of days. Believe it or not, my sister is setting me an example, both on the decluttering and on the living. She wants to get rid of her husband's course notes, for example - she said, its just stuff he's heard in lectures and written down, its not original writing by him, he wrote it down cos he was on a course and then never looked at it again. I refuse to set up a shrine to him, I'm not going to do that". She's amazing. We could make a fortune as a decluttering coach with her doing the decluttering and me coming in with the emotional bit.

Omigod, that tent is a brilliant idea. And what a nice tent! Do you have enough *flat* garden for it? I have garden, but not much is flat. It certainly *should* be weatherproof, being as people are supposed to sleep in it an'all. I think you're absolutely right about keeping it on hand so that you can carry on selling the stuff. Um, what about bye-laws? Would you need to let the neighbours know, so that they're onside, or can't it be seen by them?

Fascinating ....

BTW - I did a trade again on Thursday! And it worked - tiny amount, but I'm back.

pandapaws

Yay for trading! I wondered if you were getting back into that, but didn't want to ask as I never understand the reply :rotfl:! It's good that your sister has taken such a strong attitude, it must be very hard for her to throw anything away but I think it's the right thing to do or she'll end up with mountains of things and nowhere to put them. It always makes me so sad when you see people on TV who's kids have died and 20yrs later their bedroom is exactly the same as they left it because they can't bear to get rid of anything (not that I wouldn't be the same). Sounds like you're really picking yourself up, good for you.

I don't think there would be any restrictions on the tent, it's not a permanent structure or anything, and where would they draw the line between the kids camping in the back garden overnight and the tent being up for a few weeks/months? We're not really overlooked, so although the neighbours would be able to see it if they tried it's not going to be a major eyesore for them and they're pretty good so unlikely to moan. Our garden isn't the biggest and a bit of an odd shape, but I'm hoping we can squeeze it in somewhere. The boys' trampoline might have to disappear for a while though. Fingers crossed our tent is waterproof...it's the same style as the one in the photo but it came from Ebay a few years ago and we've never built it up so it could be a gigantic sieve for all we know!

I put a load of stuff on Freecycle today (being made a mod on the smaller of my local sites as I know the owner and she needs some help), mostly baby things. I also won a Bokashi (indoor, worm free, add bran) compost bin which I'm collecting in half an hour, and should give me a new hobby (for all that free-time I've got :rolleyes:)

Karmacat

Sounds good then, Panda - didn't realise you hadn't put the thing up before tho, I hope it *is* waterproof.

I don't mean to confuse about the trading! I'm keeping the wittering about it separate now - I'll celebrate on here when I'm trading regularly tho!

My sister's very strong and very practical; he was her rock tho, her emotional support, her best friend, everything, her whole adult life. On that level, she's completely blank, completely poleaxed; the only thing that brings her back is concern that her children don't collapse under the strain that they feel for *their* loss of their dad.

Anyway ... when are you going to put the tent up? Will we get pictures (please)?

hypno06

**signs up for the services of a decluttering coach**