Hypno's "just for today" diary of rediscovery.

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Seaxwyn wrote: »

Hypno, do you happen to know the best way to get single trip travel insurance for skiing for a minor? My DD (aged 12) is going skiing with friends, the comparison websites won't quote for an unaccompanied child!

We've not used it for skiing, but we've used Columbus insurance via Quidco for occasional insurance. Could be worth a look, we've found it reasonably priced in the past. Make sure she's got an uptodate European Health card too.

Karmacat

hypno06 wrote: »

Too often we hold onto things for too many reasons. Sometimes a real attachment to something, which is fine, sometimes out of necessity eg passports and birth certificates, but sometimes just because we have no real reason to get rid of them.....even though we don't use them/like them/have space for them!

As you say, very therapeutic. And I think I need to continue doing this over the course of this year.

This is so me! About clothes (weirdly, because I don't think of myself as someone who particularly adores clothes) but also about papers - I've just started doing the "memorabilia and travel stuff" box :eek: :eek: :eek: is most appropriate, I think :rotfl:

sallyx wrote: »

PHOTOS's remember

Aargh, you may have gone to the spare room before you saw this, Hypno, but I think its a very good idea of Sally's :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

hypno06

Ever get that feeling you have started something and you wish you hadn't :rotfl:

Well, I am an hour and a half in......and already I have had blood, sweat and tears.

Schreiber built in wardrobes are not the easiest thing for one woman and a screwdriver to dismantle. And they are flippin heavy. They are not kidding when they say they are built to last - no "give" in the units at all!!

So, I have managed to get the top unit and all the doors outside. I have got one wardrobe unit downstairs - just need to get something onto my dining room floor to prevent damage as I take it through that room into the garden, where it will await further dismantling when I find a lump hammer.....

The other wardrobe is away from the wall, but I need to find the strength to get that one downstairs too. Would be so much easier with two people, but I can do this......

Of course, the downside with built in wardrobes is that you never know what you will find behind them. So I was pleased to find no damp, as part of the units are on an outside wall and I know it is not uncommon to find lots of lovely black mould.

But I was not overly impressed at the large crack in the wall, that is more than just a settlement crack in the plaster from when it was built It will need more investigating, but in the short term I will polyfill it and paint over it, and see if it moves further over the next year or so, when I will make a decision about what to do next. I don't have a great track record with houses that have large cracks appearing

To be fair, it does not look as though it is a new crack, so I am hoping that it can be patched. But I could do without it.

I can, even with a wardrobe plonked in the middle of the room, see that it is a good size space for a study, so once it is all done, I am sure I will be very glad that I started it......but right now, I am finding it hard hard going!!

hypno06

Oh, and I am correct in saying, am I not, that hot cross buns when eaten on the correct day of the year, have no calories, fat or carbs?

Yup, thought so......:D

Karmacat

hypno06 wrote: »

Oh, and I am correct in saying, am I not, that hot cross buns when eaten on the correct day of the year, have no calories, fat or carbs?

Yup, thought so......:D

Of course you are :rotfl::kisses3:

hypno06 wrote: »

Ever get that feeling you have started something and you wish you hadn't :rotfl: Uh oh.

Well, I am an hour and a half in......and already I have had blood, sweat and tears.

Schreiber built in wardrobes are not the easiest thing for one woman and a screwdriver to dismantle. And they are flippin heavy. They are not kidding when they say they are built to last - no "give" in the units at all!! Are you going to chuck them? I only caught up on your thread half an hour ago, and already I can't remember, sorry

But I was not overly impressed at the large crack in the wall, that is more than just a settlement crack in the plaster from when it was built It will need more investigating, but in the short term I will polyfill it and paint over it, and see if it moves further over the next year or so, when I will make a decision about what to do next. I don't have a great track record with houses that have large cracks appearing

To be fair, it does not look as though it is a new crack, so I am hoping that it can be patched. But I could do without it. :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

I can, even with a wardrobe plonked in the middle of the room, see that it is a good size space for a study, so once it is all done, I am sure I will be very glad that I started it......but right now, I am finding it hard hard going!!

You must be - I do remember from the planned days work post that you did, that it was a *lot* scheduled for Friday .... it might be a bit optimistic, that bit, Hypno :coffee::easter_ba

hypno06

I am worried, KC, that if I don't carry on, and just get the job done, it will be another half finished room that never ever gets done. I'm sick of living like that so I will get this done if it kills me. Which it might - if you hear of a newspaper story telling of a 39year old found crushed on the stairs under the weight of a wardrobe, that'll be me!

So, I have 4 days before we go to London - Even if I have to leave the flippin wardrobe in the middle of the room until the kids come home to help me, I can clean the walls, prep and paint around it, although I would much rather do it with the wardrobe outside.

Yes, I am chucking them - I just want rid. So everything going out on the patio where the children will have great fun demolishing them, then I will get a skip in - OH has stuff in the garage that he wants to sort and chuck too, so a skip will be the way to go. Perhaps not the best in MSE/recycling terms, but that'll be the way I do it.

hypno06

Seaxwyn, I'm sorry but I don't know the answer to the insurance question. My two have specialist racing and training insurance so we have a completely different policy than a normal winter sports one.

Sally - couldn't find a camera.......sorry!

Karmacat

I know that feeling of just wanting it *done* so badly, that anything that helps it along the way is good enough, even if it isn't mse or green or whatever. You have so much on your plate - if it'll make you feel better to do it this way,and leave you enough energy to enjoy London and whatnot next week, then....

Go For It!!!!!!!

Nargleblast

Yes, go for it, Hypno, and if a hot cross bun or six helps you along the way...c'est la vie!

hypno06

Right, have had half an hours break, so will go and do another hour in the room of doom before I stop for lunch.......