"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Yawn ... lovely sky this morning .... pink is reflecting all over the clouds, as the sun comes up. Oops, just remembered the old saying - red sky in the morning, sailors warning! But you know what, its very warm - the heating is off, and I'm not sitting here thinking I wish it was on. Astonishing for January.

Lovely afternoon out with my chum yesterday, and stocked up on microwave pockets of rice and quorn fillets for after the op - both on offer at Sainsbo, very happy about that and I've just gone through Martin's email: journey to Liverpool, stopping off on the return for my travelodge deal is looking like this:

to London £4.50
oyster £2
to Liverpool £11
to local station £4.30

from local station 4.30
to coventry £3 (includes £5 voucher from redspotted hanky)
3 nights at travelodge £30
to london £5 on megabus
to my station £4.50

grand total £68.60 :j:j:j

I'm really noticing how large a part the local train fare is up north, can't find any way round that right now.

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery - crossposted while I was writing the above saga

I've got some tubs of soy dessert, cereal, dried fruit, oatcakes, oats, and I'll have bananas. I'm not above just putting some frozen veg in the microwave on their own, and chucked soy sauce over them, just to take care of the vitamins I'll buy some really yummy dried fruit too, not just the bog standard stuff.

Pippilongstocking

catching up slowly -

Good for your travel bounty -and yay for stocking up

I'm sorry I've not been about much - slowly getting back to 'my' normal - which isn't really very normal

Have a good un.

Cheery_Daff

wow, well impressed with the cost of tht journey, well done you! :T :T :T

And ace stocking up

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

to London £4.50
oyster £2
to Liverpool £11
to local station £4.30

from local station 4.30
to coventry £3 (includes £5 voucher from redspotted hanky)
3 nights at travelodge £30
to london £5 on megabus
to my station £4.50

grand total £68.60 :j:j:j

Quick hello!!! - boss is now back from hols so lots has landed on my desk!

KC I"m just loving the way you've planned out costs for your trip!!!!! Think I'll borrow your budget plan for our next time ''away'' and add the costs for food as well (we often stock up the boot with things to be munched - from our store cupboard) usually only have one proper meal out a day - sometimes not even that if it's a bed and breakfast place.

XO
RT

Karmacat

I hope the work pile goes down soon, RT!

The trip costings are good, aren't they! Though there's no flexibility, of course - if I can't travel, I might lose the lot, thats life. There's now the outside chance that either my mum will be in France, with my sister, who's much more regulated by her job as a teacher as to when she can go abroad, or she (my mum) will be recovering from an op, in which case what I'll actually be doing is looking after her. We'll see! If she *is* in France, I'll go up anyway, and see my mum another time - after all, I'm always looking wistfully at events and places in Liverpool wishing I had the time to go to them, and there's a friend from my teenager years I've found online and I think still lives locally; *and* there's meeting up with gilligansyle! Win-win really

Big chunk of work done this morning, now its a question of letting my late lunch go down, so a bit of web surfing is allowed

turfy6

Great planning going on there KC sounds like amazing prices too.:T
Glad the garden is coming along too, and good luck for the op hope you feel like your old self in no time. hugs.

Karmacat

Thanks turfy!

RT, I forgot to say, the food is an issue too - I stayed at a travelodge last year, and the breakfasts were disgusting - wheat products to eat in your own room, really vile. This time, I'll take my own special-brand porridge - oats with added linseed, sunflower seed and pumpkin seed, with probably dried cranberries, in a soy dessert with water added, and manuka honey as well. Fit for a queen :j

With my fiddliness with what I eat - vegetarian, no gluten, no fish, no cow's milk - if I'm away for a while, its easier to eat in the room, so I'll just have snacks outside - evening meal can be a takeaway jacket potato with a bag of supermarket salad & chunks of cheese, pot of fresh fruit, a cake and so on. Much healthier, much cheaper, much nicer.

Double_Trouble

Karmacat wrote: »

after all, I'm always looking wistfully at events and places in Liverpool wishing I had the time to go to them, and there's a friend from my teenager years I've found online and I think still lives locally; *and* there's meeting up with gilligansyle! Win-win really

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Karmacat

Oh sweetie :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

she's on this thread chatting about it, thats all! You're kinda fading from mse ... I emailed you, I did, we chatted :grouphug::kisses3::grouphug::kisses3::grouphug::kisses3::grouphug::kisses3:

Actually, I haven't been to your blog since my first coupla visits, I'll log in to that persona and do that now.

Thats what today is, really - I've got one hour of paid work, so its mostly about bringing on the other parts of my planned patchwork life