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Double_Trouble

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm waiting with bated breath for the diving tickets for next month .... buying some for my sister and my niece ... here I go, its 9.59!


ETA - Ha! Got them - boy, they really make you jump through hoops, as well as timing your jumps on each page _pale_ I need another cup of coffee after that :rotfl:

Verrrry frosty here today, as everywhere else, I suppose - I'm working at the computer today, figuring out how to become a millionaire by the time I retire :cool: for which I'll need a *lot* more coffee

Well done on getting the tickets I am afraid the Olympics has left me cold it just feels too far away and with the cost of accommodation etc. even if I had got tickets it would be impossible also my life is too unpredictable to book too far in advance

When you work out the millionaire plan please feel free to share

DTxx

redsquirrel80

Sounds like there should be a new event of 'Olympic Ticket Buying'! :rotfl:

Karmacat

Hi both! Red, there should definitely be one: for instance, "write your first name as shown on your credit card statement" - hmmm, I could write my first name .... or I could write the salutation and initials that appear on my cc statement. I chose the last - and it worked, thankfully. I certainly deserve a gold medal for that.

DT, I understand how you feel - but London is only 45 minutes away, so its a bit different. Travel to north east London (very close to the flat I bought way back in the 1980s!!!) and security make it a marathon, so I'm not going this time with the op and all, but I'll go to something at those sites another time.

Momentously, I've updated my details in my sig about my French mortgage - I kind of lost the plot a little bit, and apparently so did they, they had a bit of my new address missing, gulp. Anyway, its gone down by about 5,000 euros, its been so long since I updated it.

Trouble is - it used to be at 2.15%, and now its at 2.8%!!! In spite of the euro interest rate going down - huh! Ah well, I've found out how to replace the missing paperwork (printed from online, hurray). I'm very pleased

Karmacat

I had a good dfw shopping trip yesterday too - went to Sainsbo, and saw The King's Speech on sale for £6 - and then for £5 - so I bought the £5 copy. Till charged me £5, and since I always check my receipt these days, I went to Customer Services, and got the £1 refunded :j Its less than it would cost me to go to the cinema, and if I don't want to keep it, I might even flog it on ebay.

Plus, and I suspected something like this would happen - the gluten free Christmas puddings are mega-reduced! They were £3, I bought one at £2, and now they're 35p. I bought six :o:o

Otherwise, I'm plugging away at tidying and at admin, and even at the garden - whether its getting the slate chips in place, getting a quote to finally get the water butt up and running (can't use the big one, currently, will have to think about that) - the only thing I haven't tackled out there is checking whose responsibility is the fence thats come down.

And my garlic bulbs are still sprouting :j:j:j

Cheery_Daff

Oooh, exciting stuff KC! :T :T I haven't even planted my garlic yet And don't be embarrassed about the Christmas puddings!

Well done on the video too (although you confused me there for a while - think it charged you £6 not £5 Too early in the morning for my brain to work properly! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:)

redsquirrel80

Ooh lots of puddings I think we've still got one we bought reduced last year

Great shopping trip there.

Garlic sprouting here too!

turfy6

Bargain those xmas puds, yum I love em.:T

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Oooh, exciting stuff KC! :T :T I haven't even planted my garlic yet And don't be embarrassed about the Christmas puddings!

Hope you get time to do it now!

Well done on the video too (although you confused me there for a while - think it charged you £6 not £5 Too early in the morning for my brain to work properly! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:)

Honest, it was weird - there were two copies, one was on sale for £6, and the other for £5. So I picked up the one for £5, d'oh, but still got charged £6. So I went and had a winge

Plus, ta-da, the space under the kitchen window is *finally* ready for membrane and slate chips! Hallelujah!

gilligansyle

Well done on the video, I'm not sure I'd have noticed. Not because I'm not being MSE, but because of the faff involved in getting my glasses on to read the receipt while I was still in the shop.

You can keep the christmas puds though! Yuck!

I need to get my act together about planting stuff, and apparently cats don't like garlic so that may stop them doing their business in my pots.

Karmacat

Morning! I'm lucky like that - I still don't need glasses (had my eyes checked earlier this year, and I just squeak in) - because my eyes are slightly different shapes from one another, I still have both longsight and shortsight :j

And it was a dvd, honest - in some ways, I *have* joined the 21st century - just not with mobile phones :o:o

I'm definitely going to need undereye concealer today ... didn't sleep long enough, and I'm definitely in need of a good long walk, a little more regularly than I have had... I can do that today too, bit of work in the garden between sessions, and then off out for a proper walk. Really need proper trainers tho, the wimps I have at the moment don't have a proper heel and the soles are designed to be very thin, they're actually hurting my heels, bah. That'll be the job for this Saturday, but in the meantime, I'll just wing it.