"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Hope your day was good, macgirl - interesting about the effect of the house - the one thing that causes me difficulty is fitting my stuff into this house - although they're both 3 bed semis, my previous house was *so* much bigger, the stress this house has caused is fitting stuff in - I'm still getting rid - just today, I decluttered to the charity a copy of Machiavelli's The Prince, because I found a free copy on kindle and threw out some toiletries that aren't needed any more. And that kind of thing is liberating in itself - plus the thing about the fabric of the house itself being so much more liberating, because its up to date (tho the mortaring is shocking )

Anyway, I checked out some wall insulation today - it can be ecological stuff made from recycled glass, and you can still get the government grant ... I just need to check if it will be affected by wall tie work, or by double glazing being fitted, and I might find the £200 (just under) that I'd need to contribute - wouldn't take very long at all to earn that back

Karmacat

Woo hoo! First time ever - I've brought the lappie downstairs and I'm sitting in an armchair - all hail the wonderful powers of **wireless**

MrsMoo2U

Yay to wireless KC. I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments of houses causing stress. My old house was a 3 bed 1930s semi and had loads of storage. I was very minimalist in things (or so I thought) until I moved when I realised that I had too much stuff to move with. I got rid of lots of things and then put stuff into storage until I got my flat. Now the flat is on the market I have had to move lots of things here to Mr Cs. His house is already full to the rafters so now it is overflowing. I have felt very stressed ever since I came here and I do believe it is because I am so cluttered. I have no other reasons to feel stressed.

Glad that things are going well for you at the moment. Enjoy sitting in that armchair.

gilligansyle

Morning KC

its so much easier being able to sit where you want, so you can use the lappie at any time. Can understand that when you use it for 'work' it is better to be in a proper environment, but for pottering around on here, far better to be comfortable.

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

Woo hoo! First time ever - I've brought the lappie downstairs and I'm sitting in an armchair - all hail the wonderful powers of **wireless**

:jYeah to wireless:j

Lula-Hula

Agree on the wireless joy -

has pretty much changed my life & no more having back pain from hunching over a table til the early hours ... can chat from my bed

Enjoy your day KC
xx

Karmacat

cherisong wrote: »

I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments of houses causing stress. My old house was a 3 bed 1930s semi and had loads of storage. I was very minimalist in things (or so I thought) until I moved when I realised that I had too much stuff to move with. I got rid of lots of things and then put stuff into storage until I got my flat. Now the flat is on the market I have had to move lots of things here to Mr Cs. His house is already full to the rafters so now it is overflowing. I have felt very stressed ever since I came here and I do believe it is because I am so cluttered. I have no other reasons to feel stressed.

Oh no Can't you use storage again? Are you sorting through the stuff that you do want to throw? One thing I'm doing every six months or soi s sorting out work magazines - scanning articles I like, and chucking the thing. Very liberating

gilligansyle wrote: »

Morning KC
Hiya :hello:
its so much easier being able to sit where you want, so you can use the lappie at any time. Can understand that when you use it for 'work' it is better to be in a proper environment, but for pottering around on here, far better to be comfortable.

Thats exactly it :j I have no intention of doing any work-y stuff today (and I brought it down so I could potter on the boring bits of Total Wipeout on CBBC Then I was up and around, now I've come back to it, and am about to shut it down for the afternoon so flexible, I love it :j

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

Woo hoo! First time ever - I've brought the lappie downstairs and I'm sitting in an armchair - all hail the wonderful powers of **wireless**

I love my wireless laptop- i have one of those trays which are padded underneath then my lap doesn't get too warm as well. Although if i am in on my own i can turn off heating and put a rug underneath..it is very MSE.:D:rotfl:

Karmacat

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

I love my wireless laptop- i have one of those trays which are padded underneath then my lap doesn't get too warm as well. Although if i am in on my own i can turn off heating and put a rug underneath..it is very MSE.:D:rotfl:

The mse bit is one of the things I was thinking about actually there are 4 radiators downstairs - one big, one medium, two tiny. Now admittedly, the big one in the living room can be switched off, but the others can't, whereas all the upstairs ones can be, so its very mse - I switch the heating off altogether after a while, I'm sitting right by the big radiator, and its very warm :snow_laug

hypno06

I would be lost without my wireless internet......