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Pippilongstocking

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

YAY! :T BRILLIANT!

DP is happy to continue to Womble (in an 'apprentice' capacity - natch ) them for you. They are destined for the bin otherwise

That was a lovely Mother's day card that your DD made. What a creative and thoughtful gal she is.

Have a great flight and meeting/training (it is today isn't it?). And I hope the rest of the gang have a great day too.

Greying

Oh how fantastic!

Well apologies for beign a bit of a quiet one here - diary is pretty stapped at the moment with gardening/wombling and invigilating here and there.

I hope you're alll well!

Today is a garden/womble/garden day.

Yesterday we had a learn to sew your own bag workshop which was great!!!! I made a bag!!!!!

Me, I know, even I was impressed - the lady who does our workshop has modified the original design and I can now 'french hem' :T

On more exciting news our womble charity has been accepted for a national recycling scheme for print cartridges and phones - we have our own page on there and everything! So utterly delighted.

Means we get £1 (+gift aid) for every single print cartridge we can get our mitts on - or folk recycle in our name either by sending them in on thier own and nominating us and (we've bags and everything).

I'm giddy! Lots of promotion to be done on that one later.

Today its digging and mud and everything.

Mr F is home 'sooth' and the kidlets are at school

Banks to check - waiting for my womble wonga - hoping it arrives soon as I've had to pay cash out for willow cuttings (for a hedge job) and labour to help me.

We're back to being squeaky again, but with prospects !

Hope you're all good.

Pippilongstocking

Bank £28 left of OD - argh

£254 left in the other

Rent to pay at end of month - £545

CC's are 350 left in lucifer, 548 in captain.

Not great but waiting on pay!

Kittikins

You are a fabulous Womble Pippi, OH is planning on buying me a printer for my birthday next month so I will promise to send off my used cartridges for your charity when I have some

My leg is getting better by the minute, yay, and I'm still off work for another week - not sure how I would be to drive yet, but in terms of getting about, it's just a bit sore now (like it usually is, woohoo, can't wait for it to not feel like 'normal' ) and my lovely, lovely builder is here knocking walls down, laughing at me and my mad ideas and questions and doing a fantastic job. The house looks so good already, even though its just dust and rubble everywhere

Karmacat

KK, glad its going so well!

Pippi, how nice to see you around! I have an old Epson ink cartridge waiting for a charity donor .... I'm sure you're within the rules to post a charity link on here - or put it on f/b, and then I can nominate you.

starnac

KC if it's TRF that pippi is talking about I'm pretty sure they don't accept Epsom cartridges. I could be wrong though!

Lemon_Tree

KK what you having done to your house? can we have piccies? it will help give me some ideas

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

KK, glad its going so well!

Pippi, how nice to see you around! I have an old Epson ink cartridge waiting for a charity donor .... I'm sure you're within the rules to post a charity link on here - or put it on f/b, and then I can nominate you.

The link to our charity is here as far as I'm aware they take everything and we get £1!

I'd so love it if you donated the first one or so or anyone from here - how awesome would that be??????

Karmacat

Morning! Thanks for the link, Pippi - unfortunately, I think Starnac might be right - the one I have is an epson T0711 and I get this message:
"Sorry, we cannot recycle the Epson T071140 (T0711) you have selected!
Thank you for checking the value of your inkjet cartridge for a charity.
Please do not send this inkjet cartridge to the Each One Counts scheme!
However you can recycle it responsibly so that materials might be recovered from it, by contacting the manufacturer at the link below and requesting their own recycling bags."


They do at least give the link, so I'll use that. What a shame ... it *would* have been awesome - I'm sorry I can't do it



I'm just looking at the linkie - had to search on the Epson site, but found their recycling page. They support the British Red Cross, but they're only recycling laser cartridges.4


But then I searched again for "environment" not "recycling" and found the right page, so some recycling envelopes are on the way to me. They didn't make it easy, tho, grrrr.

Pippilongstocking

ARgh poor you Karmcat

We use a professional one too for inkcartridges for the bigger printers I'll check epsom on their list and then let you know and maybe I can fathom something out for you!

Sorry dear!

I'm just in from a mornings gardening - most amazing weather here - I fear it might be spring.



Hope you're all good - no pay yet = no rent paid yet but there's a few days yet.

savingforarainyday

Peeks around door gingerly to see if anyone is there:o

Sorry not been around for a while, been busy trying to reorganise my life (not my strongest point this reorganisations stuff)

I have made tea. I have gingernuts and I could bribe everyone with a bag full of leeks:D

Back later after I have done some catching up