"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

cherisong wrote: »

Busy day there KC. It must be the sunshine but you sound so full of energy. I agree when the fingers and hands start hurting it is time to stop. No use in pushing on and spoiling tomorrow.

Yep! I counted up when I got to bed in the evening, and I'd done 21 things - not all of them jobs, some pleasant, I just wanted to know how I'd spent my time, and it was a great day!

Still loving that place, I think I need to put it onto my MUST do list. Feel like I could do with something like that right now actually

Awww, Cheri - it really is lovely. Its an experience. Hope you can find your way to getting a break.

gilligansyle wrote: »

You seem to have got so much done. And real cleaning!

So tomorrow is playing with water butts? Yay!!!

Yep, real cleaning - erm, didn't use the vacuum cleaner once, sadly :rotfl:look at the tears running down my face that I didn't :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I confess, tho, no playing with water butts today - they have to be connected up by a plumber, or at least a bloke with a saw and a couple of thingummies Whereas today I'm off to see my partner, who now lives more than an hour away, stopping off at the town in the middle to get some Waitrose pesto, seeing as its my holiday - then zooming back here to throw together some stuff for the tip. Almost everything I managed to get together yesterday for the tip actually fit in my ordinary rubbish bin.

rtandon27 wrote: »

:wave:
recipe on it's way!

(are you sure we don't all have the same mom????:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:)

bulder's butts are not all they are cracked up to be...
i've got 20 odd men at work not one of whom has a butt worth a second glance...

XO
RT

Got the recipe, thank you! Its *very* healthy _pale_ but thats a good thing :j I need less processed fat in my life.

Right, got to get looking remotely respectable... see you all later
xxx

taxi73

What a great busy day you had yesterday...well done
CR sounds heavenly and have a good day today x

Karmacat

Hi Taxi! Thank you for your kind words hope you're doing good - well, I know you do a lot more than you think you do, but I hope you're *feeling* good too.

And yes, CR is brilliant, seriously!

Right, really am shutting down now - 8 minutes left :eek:

taxi73

Am fine thanks

redsquirrel80

Karma's got a man with a couple of thingummies coming round *giggles*

Have a good day and pesto-stocking up session

Triciaxx

:wave: Another pesto addict standing up to be counted - and another fussy one. I always made my own with a pestle and mortar but I have difficulties with that now - another with dodgy hands standing up to be counted.:(

What food processor did you get, KC? I'm thinking of lashing out but they seem to vary from under £20 to £300+ :eek::eek: At present, I have a Kenwood Chef, 15 yrs old which replaced one which died at 30 yrs old but it is heavy to lift and has a large footprint - we downsized and, while the kitchen is not small by most standards, it is the smallest I've had since I left my parents. I want it to make pesto, salsa, chop veg (do that by hand at present but am trying to future-proof), grating, breadcrumbs and anything else. There are only 2 of us but I do batch cook.

Any recommendations will be gratefully received.

Enjoy your waterbutts - I suppose you will be doing a raindance now?

Karmacat

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

Karma's got a man with a couple of thingummies coming round *giggles*

Have a good day and pesto-stocking up session

I thought you'd like that I haven't got him yet, but its the only solution for a woman with two water butts and no knowledge of :Dhow to connect them to drainpipes

Triciaxx wrote: »

:wave: Another pesto addict standing up to be counted - and another fussy one. I always made my own with a pestle and mortar but I have difficulties with that now - another with dodgy hands standing up to be counted.:(
Pesto is good :j dodgy hands are horrible absolutely

What food processor did you get, KC? I'm thinking of lashing out but they seem to vary from under £20 to £300+ :eek::eek: At present, I have a Kenwood Chef, 15 yrs old which replaced one which died at 30 yrs old but it is heavy to lift and has a large footprint - we downsized and, while the kitchen is not small by most standards, it is the smallest I've had since I left my parents. I want it to make pesto, salsa, chop veg (do that by hand at present but am trying to future-proof), grating, breadcrumbs and anything else. There are only 2 of us but I do batch cook.

Any recommendations will be gratefully received.

Its a Kenwood multi-pro, a 900w version, I got it for £37 on ebay. The woman selling it said it was an unwanted housewarming present, never used, and that seems to be true - everything is pristine in its original plastic bags, just like her photo showed it to be. I wrote to Kenwood for the instructions, which the seller told me that she'd lost, and they sent an e-copy within a few hours. As to how it does ... :o:o I haven't been able to use it yet, the kitchen keeps getting bunged up with other projects, like now with the garden

Enjoy your waterbutts - I suppose you will be doing a raindance now?

Oh definitely. With a fan

Oh dear. Well, this is the decluttering challenge response I posted on the matrix thread. Its quite bad STILL. Between charitising and the ordinary rubbish and the tip I've got rid of loads of stuff this week alone - but when my sister took over yesterday and mowed the grass, I saw the garden through her eyes, and it was a **mess** it really was. So here's the list, to see if I can finally bring order to the mess (and the other thing I need to declutter as well is the mould in the bathroom :eek:) : -
- scanning journal articles so I can chuck the hard copy (well, it has to go on the list, then I can tick it off!).
- get all the ornaments in one place, decide what to do.
- get all the picture frames in one place, and decide what to do. This may need my sister to be a witness.
- pruning in the garden - with focussing on the house, this has become horrendous - my sister took over yesterday, rescued the hover mower she gave me from the shed and the spiders, and cut the grass, which was 3 feet long in places. I need to keep it cut and also get rid of whats cut (loads of seeds, no good for composting), and also get rid of most of the sedge, the ivy and the rhodendrons, plus start digging up some of the grass to give me space to plant stuff. And then it would be nice to remortar the patio blocks .... okay, I'm going to shut up there :eek:

And I'm doing very little of this today - I'm off to Egyptology, and am going early to have a looksee round the town :rotfl:

Double_Trouble

Karmacat wrote: »

- pruning in the garden - with focussing on the house, this has become horrendous - my sister took over yesterday, rescued the hover mower she gave me from the shed and the spiders, and cut the grass, which was 3 feet long in places. I need to keep it cut and also get rid of whats cut (loads of seeds, no good for composting), and also get rid of most of the sedge, the ivy and the rhodendrons, plus start digging up some of the grass to give me space to plant stuff. And then it would be nice to remortar the patio blocks .... okay, I'm going to shut up there :eek:

Sounds like my garden but I am ever hopeful I have a man with a strimmer coming next week hopefully Tuesday if the weather is good and he is a friend that won't need paying just feeding so that's very :money: and as I have my work experience that day it will be OH that will be doing the feeding so very lazy for me too:o. That will be an improvement although getting rid of the cuttings and prunings will be a nightmare.

DTxx

gilligansyle

Enjoy your Egyptology. Are you sure we haven't got the same sister? I think I'm doing really well until mine turns up, and in no time at all she's made a difference!

Karmacat

Double_Trouble wrote: »

Sounds like my garden but I am ever hopeful I have a man with a strimmer coming next week hopefully Tuesday if the weather is good and he is a friend that won't need paying just feeding so that's very :money: and as I have my work experience that day it will be OH that will be doing the feeding so very lazy for me too:o. That will be an improvement although getting rid of the cuttings and prunings will be a nightmare.

DTxx

Oh that does sound like the same garden! I've just been writing two long blog posts about it all (while scanning some work articles I can now throw out ) .... without writing about it, I'll feel overwhelmed, and that way lies illness again, so it really helps. Yay to a work experience day, by the way :j And yes, I too am ever-hopeful :j

gilligansyle wrote: »

Enjoy your Egyptology. Are you sure we haven't got the same sister? I think I'm doing really well until mine turns up, and in no time at all she's made a difference!

We may well do, but then we'd be sisters - we are, under the skin, of course :kisses3:

Just checked the journey time to Horsham, and it only takes half an hour :j I also need a surprise smiley so I think I'll get my nibbles together and be on my way!