"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

redsquirrel80

No, never, I think water butts are a great thing to spend points on. Didn't know Wilko did cheap ones though.. I've finally worked out where I can put one (I think!)

Think the winter plan is really good, the last thing you need if your ill is trailing out to buy something. I do have visions of you surrounded by buckets of pesto though :rotfl:

Kittikins

kc - I went on the South East Water webdite this morning as apparently my postcode is getting compulsory metering this summer and they've got a competition to win water butts, so might be worth a try

http://www.southeastwater.co.uk/pls/apex/f?p=101:waterbuttgiveaway:0

Greying_Pilgrim

Karmacat - you've missed out the fourth level of your cunning plan (which we all know you'd written down on the back of the envelope....) which is that the water butts will save you more money on your water bill - currently if you are metered, or in the future if we all have to (eventually) go onto a metering system - as Kittikins has pointed out. Whatever the roll-out time table is for implementation across water authority areas, water butts are not going to get any cheaper, so investment sounds like a good idea - and the competition sounds like a good idea too actually.

Phew! am well impressed that your cunning plans have levels though, I'm impressed when I can just devise a plan and stick to it!!!

Plus I agree with Redsquirrel, plant posts are never boring.

Greying

Keeping_Motivated

Karma I was wondering why you dont invest in a car? Is it for financial reasons or choice?

I was just thinking that public transport is likely to spread virus's all sitting ducks so to speak and also it would open up your world so much more and give you more independence in the evenings for boosting your social life which I know is one of your plans.

Karmacat

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Think the winter plan is really good, the last thing you need if your ill is trailing out to buy something. I do have visions of you surrounded by buckets of pesto though :rotfl:

Yep, there's that too, what you spend your energy on. I really like the sound of buckets of pesto :j:j:j

Kittikins wrote: »

kc - I went on the South East Water webdite this morning as apparently my postcode is getting compulsory metering this summer and they've got a competition to win water butts, so might be worth a try

http://www.southeastwater.co.uk/pls/apex/f?p=101:waterbuttgiveaway:0

Thanks for the link, KK, I've opened it - will enter now when I've caught up.

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Karmacat - you've missed out the fourth level of your cunning plan (which we all know you'd written down on the back of the envelope....) which is that the water butts will save you more money on your water bill - currently if you are metered, or in the future if we all have to (eventually) go onto a metering system.

Good one, GP! Yes, I do already have a water meter, so they would save me money straight away. Normally, I never have any plants in my garden that need to be watered, but food plants are different, they may well need watering to survive and bear fruit.

Phew! am well impressed that your cunning plans have levels though, I'm impressed when I can just devise a plan and stick to it!!!

Plus I agree with Redsquirrel, plant posts are never boring.

Greying

The levels thing just occurred to me, and I liked it, glad you did too :T

I'm not truly sticking to all these plans, you know - already, I can see that my monthly list is bound to become my summer list :rotfl:

More plant posts: I'll be off out there soon, I feel healthier out of doors. And guess what, there was a bramble near the kitchen window that I pruned, and part of it really didn't look well. Turns out its a raspberry! I have massive great raspberries sitting there! I can hardly believe it, but there they are. I'll have to take piccies

Karmacat

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

Karma I was wondering why you dont invest in a car? Is it for financial reasons or choice?

I was just thinking that public transport is likely to spread virus's all sitting ducks so to speak and also it would open up your world so much more and give you more independence in the evenings for boosting your social life which I know is one of your plans.

Therein lies a tale.... when I was well off, it was a choice.... nowadays, when I'd happily have a little car, its necessity. I *am* just about reaching breakeven point, but no way can I afford a car.

I absolutely agree about public transport - its why, for the second half of the years I worked in London, I'd share car costs with my partner.

If I had a car .... yep, its not only the independence, and going places that are hard to get to by public transport - its even the speed that you can do things at - to get to Wol's house from where I used to live took me two hours if everything ran like clockwork, 3 hours if my train was 5 minutes late, as I missed the connection. The drive takes about 50 minutes.

When I get a car, everyone will know :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Therein lies a tale.... when I was well off, it was a choice.... nowadays, when I'd happily have a little car, its necessity. I *am* just about reaching breakeven point, but no way can I afford a car.

What about a moped?

Pippilongstocking

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Woohoo for £1 train tickets :T Oh and plant posts are never boring

Well said to both of those :T

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

What about a moped?

I could certainly go for *that* moped

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Well said to both of those :T

Absolutely! Sadly, one set of my train tickets weren't so great - they were for today, to go see my partner, and included that plusbus deal - at least I can claim for them, grrr!

Pippilongstocking

Hope all good today KC bummer about the ticket apol if didn't read thoroughly! x