Carry on Questing

Karmacat

Hope it isn't going too badly, Lula, de-conifering is never nice. I'll be doing *lots* of gardening now that I'm to have a garden I can actually get into (this one is horrendous - just terraces, overshadowed by trees, and the hill is so steep that from the back of the garden, I can't see the house - its too far down the hill, truly.

Hope you find something out there to enjoy this afternoon.

taxi73

hope the deconifering went ok ...don't envy you.

Lula-Hula

Evening all,

I'm scratched to bits, covered in sap & now have 3 full bags to take to the dump when it reopens but ... all the trees have been trimmed almost to Brazilian standards . The ones that spearate my garden for the neighbours are back to being level with the top of the fence & peeking into their garden always makes me feel better . It looks like there's been a tornado at a playgroup in there :eek: I must be really neat-freakish but when the playing is done & we go in I like things put away so when I look out it's tidy . Two of my neighbours leave their washing out for days ... and one of them never seems to actually do any towels or bed linen washing _pale_

Anyway - back in laundry-obsessed Lulaville I've done my 3 loads to day & I've actually ironed it all & it's been put away too. sometimes I scare myself. Just in case you start to think I'm a Stepford wife; let me reassure that we just had cheese on toast for supper with strawberries & cream for dessert - so not exactly masterchef .

I managed to keep the hedgetrimmer cable intact & have investigated buying a cordless one. The really cheap one looked fine until I realised that it only runs for 20 minutes ... & for one that runs for up to 50 minutes, it costs the corresponding amount in £s. Think I'll make do with borrowing my Dads 2 or 3 times a year.

It's been quite warm here but very windy & mostly cloudy so it feels almost autumnal & I'm about to get rid o even ore stuff fomr my wardrobe. I am sending anything a bit worn to the charity shop & for any stuff that's in really good condition I'm putting it in a pile for ebaying next year, along with loads of DDs outgrown clothes which are immaculate. I know I wont do it while I'm still doing home-job so not going to even pretend I will.

I'm getting anxious about the Barclaycard. What with dentist bill & yesterdays expenditure it's hovering around the £600 mark . I havent yet transferred money over from my old current account because I dont yet know which account Tax Credits will go into so I need to keep cash in both accounts to cover various direct debts - some will defintely go out of the new account & some peeps told me it was too late to change this months & it would go out of old account. I hate this not being settled yet :mad:.

I also hate the fact that Barclaycard is creeping up again & I'm going to clear that before I pay any extra off the Virgin CC. I can use £200 from the Quidco drip account ( I can use the Virgin 0% to buy DDs bedroom furniture) & I also have another £100 I can 'borrow' from the saving funds.

I do love my teeth but I feel a bit of a fraud having £3,500 in my sig when I know damn well that however much I pretend that Barclaycard doesnt really count .. it is still debt & worse than that - it's debt I'm paying interest on :eek:.

*slides off in shame to do some more calculations & see if any extra cash can be raised to clear it asap*

... I'll be back later.

Souk08

Look forward to seeing you later Lady!

makeup

Sounds like a productive day.

I've finished some cushions for my lovely patio set on my balcony (my lovely sister got it for me as a housewarming).

I'm so glad I can do crafty projects - there was never any room (or indeed point) at my old place.

Maybe the towel / bed linen people just tumble all that???? I'm gonna have to tumble a towel ready for gym tomorrow. Which I know is bad but at least I will be showeing at the gym rather than home so maybe balances out

I hope you manage to sort out the cat issues. I would hate having to deal with that of a morning! :eek:

taxi73

Well done on all that work...thats amazing.
I tumble dry my towels as I hate it when they dry hard but do hang bedding on the line sometimes

boredofbeingathome

Seems to have been a good day for washing- me too, although i rarely tumble dry towels. I have a don't care attitude to them, they are so rubbish anyway. I have a dream when i sort out a new cupboard, then there will be lovely new towels that DS and DD can't nick

ZTD

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

Seems to have been a good day for washing- me too, although i rarely tumble dry towels. I have a don't care attitude to them, they are so rubbish anyway. I have a dream when i sort out a new cupboard, then there will be lovely new towels that DS and DD can't nick

It's easy to have towels that DS won't nick: Pink.

DD is a bit more difficult alas...

boredofbeingathome

ZTD wrote: »

It's easy to have towels that DS won't nick: Pink.

DD is a bit more difficult alas...

True- we have a lovely towel which is pink and funnily enough DD has claimed it It is the only decent towel i have- some of them are over 20 years old and getting well past their best. Will just have to be cunning and hide new ones:D:rotfl:

ZTD

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

True- we have a lovely towel which is pink and funnily enough DD has claimed it It is the only decent towel i have- some of them are over 20 years old and getting well past their best. Will just have to be cunning and hide new ones:D:rotfl:

The other way is to dry them like sandpaper, get the kids to use them, then cunningly use fabric conditioner the next time...