The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

Cheery_Daff

fayjmck wrote: »

Ok so we are doing the same PhD - great!!

How on earth do you manage to write and not get distracted????


I don't - which is why I still haven't finished even when I started in September 2004... :rolleyes:

Gluing your backside to the chair is the hardest thing! A timer is working for me - I set it for 15 minutes, work for 2 minutes, then get distracted, then the timer goes off, I remember I'm meant to be working, set it again, do 2 minutes, then get distracted again.

At least I manage 8 minutes each hour! :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

I am worrying about that - whilst I dont mind helping out - 3 months of someone with little money isn't my idea of fun.

OOOOh I sound so mercinary!

Waves to Angel xx

Pippilongstocking

Hiya

Hmm me too
I find I write better through the night - NO DISTRACTIONS - go figure eh.

But if I dont write soon I will be out of a phd.

Pippilongstocking

OK a bit of advice needed.....

Need to list my plants on ebay early this next week - just had a look around the greenhouse etc
- tomatoes, lettuce, marigolds, lupins, tomatoes again (lots of tomatoes - 6-8 bush types and 3 normal ones I think) a few hollyhocks, half a tray of annual rocket, a few climbing cup and saucer plant, and long skinny sweet red peppers (billions).

Done the sums as to what I can sell - anyone done multiple listings before?? Not sure what to do - I have between 5-20 'batches of 3-5 plants' I want to list

- thought of charging £1 for 3 or £1.50 for 5.............

Having got some tiny plants from ebay - £2.50 for 5 I know mine are - bigger and better value at £1.50 which is fine - cos the ones I got were a bit disapointing (be fine but they were very small - which mine are slightly bigger) but it was a good bench mark for me.

Don't want to charge too much as want to sell as much as poss as quickly as poss.

troglodyte

Hi all,
I just can't keep up with you guys, by the time I check back things have moved on a couple of pages and I'm way behind the current topic!
Yes the narrowboat was a fantastic place to live, although it was tiny, people couldn't believe it when I moved out and had to hire the biggest van available to a non-HGV-licensed driver - and fill it twice. Still nostalgic for it - in fact I had a photo of it made into coasters so I still see it every day and complain that I miss it (also miss the fact that such a tiny space involves a similarly tiny amount of housework and NO HOOVERING (bane of my life, I absolutely hate it - in fact I fractured my toe the last time I did any - and no that wasn't from kicking the hoover).
So why don't I still live in one, you probably wonder. Well mainly because although I owned the boat I had to rent the mooring, so had all the problems of home-ownership as well as all the problems of landlords and I'd had enough of the latter - now I'm saving up to buy a patch of land with some river frontage of my own!

On a different note, in case this cheers you up at all, I took 7 years to finish and write up my PhD. Didn't run out of money though as I was working as a technician at the time. A friend took 9 years to do his. I set aside one evening a week to write (from about 6pm to 10 or 11pm) over the course of a year, that way I was still able to have a normal life as well! It was worth it in the end (if only to see the faces of the people who didn't think I would do it!)

Anyway good luck to everyone who has writing to do!

Pippilongstocking

HI T and thanks

what was yours in?

troglodyte

Bone Cell Differentiation

medman

Hi Fay,

been following your thread for a while and really enjoying the wit and charm.

Even motivated me to plant some tatties in an old recycling box and book a trip I've been meaning to do for years I'm off walking in Skye with a friend at the end of next month.

So thanks for that.

Do you need some Ebay help as I'm not too bad.

cheers, keep it up

MM

Pippilongstocking

Just a quick 'shopping food' update - So far I am still under my april budget - £43.07/50

Whoop whoop - normally spend at least £200 (erm maybe 300 or so a month) or so and have a groaning freezer to boot. So we are going to meal plan for May again


May for us - would love to try for the grocery challenge at £50 again - but we were away for a couple weeks in April......or can i persuade myself to try for £50 again............

How about I think and try for £75 in May

+ (I will put away an extra 50 to save for my next 6 month shop to retop up the garage)

My own little stripey socks corner shop in my garage is brilliant - the kids even take their friends in there - so I will be dipping into that for my non-perishables - which I worked out was about £50 a month......

Apologies if it doesnt make sense - it kind of does to me

Pippilongstocking

Hi MM - welcome BTW the cleaner is not naked (despite what others might tell you) - ooohhhh wit and charm - you get a gold star please come back

I have given up wine (last Oct) to afford a cleaner - so both my health improves and the state of the house isn't its normal chaos (well at least on fridays)

Well done on the trip - I love walking especially on the islands - first place I camped was Skye at the tender age of 30. Dont forget midge cream. And the cafe in Portree does a great cooked breakfast. The indian isnt bad either!

Well done on the tatties - I have mine to put in yet - thinking of using 1-2 tattie plants a week equivalents for us at home - so planting about 100 tatties.

Ebay help - yeah multiple listings not good at that - is it better to offer things as 'I have 6 lots of these to sell' or is it better to list them all individually

Lol - I sound like a numpty - I have listed things before but it took forever cos I was listing them singly.

Another silly question can I just do the 'buy it now' or is it better to hope people bid more than the starting price.

Waves hello and recycling a box to plant tatties sounds ace