Finally I have a mortgage I can start to pay off!

themadvix

I'm not sure I'm that great at hacking it either Karma - hence the breakfast! But if I can give my microbiome a rest for 12-14 hours that's supposed to be good and eliminating snacking can only be good!

Have just done a couple of PA surveys and claimed some small jobs on the work platform - it pays mid-month, so hoping to boost my earnings from it between now and 14 so that it can boost my income. Also had a reminder that Correctly Delivered starts on Monday Talk about a patchwork income!

themadvix

Evening all,

 Quite a productive weekend. I was cat sitting so a little bit earned  there and also claimed a job on the platform. We’ve also (the royal we, that would be) installed the solar panel so we’re now producing our own electricity 😊 In other progress we’ve replaced a fence post that was rotten (and had been since Christmas) - a job complicated by having to break up old concrete and in a really awkward position behind the pond. 

Having a nice easy MSE dinner of chilli or veggie tikka masala from the freezer (it’s nearly ready and we haven’t decided who is having which yet), with naan bread (even with the chilli!).

Ebay items due to finish soon - a bid on one so far. Also listed something else this morning.

 Hope you’re having a good evening, whatever you’re doing!

themadvix

Morning all,

Very small Olio collection this morning and no loaves! Will have to visit my Olio friend tomorrow for some bread (or heaven forbid, bake some!). Also very little work - I've done the tiny bit that had arrived over the weekend.... ho hum. 

Mum and Niece are popping up for a cuppa and to collect some rhubarb and spring onions (both things we have a surplus of). Need to post two Ebay parcels (sadly only one was for me, but I'll convert the postage of both into cash).

MS things:
* Clicks done
* Olio collection (although it only furnished a naughty breakfast and a couple of chocolate muffins - not complaining, less food waste is good, but a loaf for us would have been useful!)
* Ebay sales and using up of RM survey stamps
* Solar panel is exporting even when we're both working and have the radio/fridge/freezer/pond pump on (We now get cross when the sun goes in or we're importing! )
* Washing drying using solar on the line too

Gratitudes:
* Chocolate muffins
* Expected visit from Mum and Niece
* Ebay sale (every little helps!)

Have a good day all!

Karmacat

Congratulations on getting the solar system up and running, that's brilliant!  Catsitting a local, friendly cat is also good, of course  

themadvix

Afternoon all,

Thanks Karma - the solar is gooood!

Have had some actual work this morning which is great. Nearly finished with it now (just having a quick break). I've also hopefully picked up 10 days of cat-sitting from my new Olio friend which is great! Not until the end of July, so that works well with jury service and when I'm usually quiet with other work.

DH is away with work tonight and I was meant to be meeting some friends, but two have bailed so we're going to go tomorrow instead, hopefully! Am going for a walk with Mum, Sis and Niece this afternoon (I requested a shady walk - it's too hot out there for me!). Olio friend is doing a collection tonight and I was going to collect from her on my way home from the pub - now I'll have to turn out specially, but I probably will anyway!

MS things:
* A couple of tiny PA surveys - it's been quiet recently, or that just me?
* Cat sitting booking
* Actual work
* More freegled embroidered fabrics ready for me to upcycle
* Ebay sale of £10. It was a hoodie I'd bought on EBay for £9.99 from a hospice shop. Turned out it wasn't for me - a bit overpriced too. Thought I'd pop it back on Ebay and be happy with a fiver for it. Allowed offers and had an offer of £10 yesterday - rather pleased with that!

Gratitudes:
* Sunshine
* Met a lovely Freegler (of the embroidered linens)
* Drinks with friends has been postponed rather than cancelled

Have a good day all!

themadvix

Afternoon all,

 Had a lovely busy afternoon/evening in the end yesterday. After walk with Mum, Sis and Niece, I went and collected the weirdest Too Good To Go bag…. Described as chocolate and sweets, so I guess that was right, but collected from a unit on an industrial estate. It included 2 dairy free Easter ‘hamsters’ (choc orange flavour, actually very tasty), a pralines and mini bottle of rose gift set and a tube of famous grouse truffles…. Most random!  All a bit of a palaver in the heat too - sat nav took me to the wrong place initially, then when I got to the right place it wasn’t easy to find (no signage) and then a silly woman in front of me in the outside lane of dual carriage had a blow out and instead of pulling over, just stopped in the outside lane and I was stuck behind her!! She did eventually move. Still, Niece took a hamster home with her, mum and I ate the pralines (wine is cooking in the fridge) and I’ve put the truffles in the present cupboard - they’re in date until October.

 Stayed and had dinner at mum’s, but then headed home in time for family quiz. After that popped out to collect quite a few bits from Olio friend - lunch sorted for today, some fruit and a loaf, English muffins and finger rolls for the freezer. And some lovely yellow roses! 😊

 Have had some proper work this morning and claimed several jobs on the platform. Just having a cuppa in the garden now before I get back to it. 

MS things:
*  food/gifts from TGTG and Olio 😊
* posted eBay sale using RM survey stamps
 * my plants from Rocket Gardrns are finally arriving today - delayed by the poor weather in May 
* clicks etc.

 Gratitudes 
* walk yesterday was fun and in the shade
 * dinner with mum
 * quick FaceTime with DH this morning - mainly to show me the chickens wandering around outside his hotel bedroom window!
* family quiz (we had a three-way tie!)
* free food
 * lovely veg box delivery this morning
* The third Wickes I visited actually had the tester pot of fence paint I was looking for (the other two said they had it online but didn’t!)

 Feeling very grateful at the moment. Drinks with friends rearranged for tonight 😊

 hope you’re all having days as good as mine!

Chiglepig

The TGTG bag was worth it just for the grins, @themadvix

themadvix

Morning all,
@Chiglepig, wasn't it just... so bizarre!

The plants' arrival yesterday was very exciting - a very big, plastic-free box filled with loads of little, very-healthy-looking vegetable plants (and a couple of bigger herbs and a baby blueberry bush)! They took up my afternoon somewhat! I still have some to plant (who knows where!), but my veg bed is now full of chard, spinach and beetroot, I've got dwarf French beans round the edge of the patio, various pots with chillis, peppers, lettuce, tomato and rocket (they sent me twice as much rocket as I was expecting - 20 plugs. I don't like the stuff (DH will eat it), so have been rehoming quite a few!).It's so nice to feel that we'll be eating from the garden soon - it's been hard waiting for them to arrive while everyone else has been talking about their gardens!

DH fancied carbonara for dinner, so persuaded me (it didn't take much) that we should have Prezzo takeaway (Deliveroo). We'd had it before and been really impressed with how hot and nice it was. What a disappointment. My pizza was stone cold and lacking the basil it should have had - took about 15 minutes in the oven to warm up (when I was pressed for time already), the garlic bread was also cold, DH's pasta wasn't hot, and the side of tenderstem broccoli we'd ordered (it was a 2 mains and 2 sides deal) was actually overcooked asparagus.... Pleased to say DH got a full refund. Annoyingly, will think twice about ordering again, which is such a pity as the previous meal was *so* good. In the evening I met a couple of friends for a drink and we had a lovely time. It will definitely become a monthly thing!

Managed to get into a bit of a pickle with Olio collections but think I'm sorted now. I'm changing collection from Monday to Wednesday as Weds has become available. However, next week I've got 4 collections to do - Sunday eve cover, usual Monday, new regular Weds and cover Weds eve!

MS things:
* I won £5 on the (stolen from Cheery) Happy Wheel! I only do two casino-type click things daily (and one seems to have disappeared) but today I won free spins and from that won £5! Already withdrawn of course No concern here that I might waste it on more spins!
* Clicks done
* Small bits of work done and a potential larger project in the pipeline (if they can work around my availability)
* Have cancelled milk this week as we're swimming in it and veg box too (which was planned as we're away soon)

Gratitudes:
* Lovely girlie time last night (complete with 5-month-old baby who should have been asleep but didn't want to miss out!)
* Other random socialising - in-laws' neighbour/friend, someone from school I haven't seen in years, actually met Olio friend in the flesh (everything is non-contact because of Covid)!
* DH is making technological improvements to my car this morning - sat nav, a radio that works and handsfree! (Installing a radio he had in his old car)

Have a good day all!

QueenJess

Eating from the garden is always exciting (I am stupidly excited that I have 4 strawberries to eat later, although I think DS is going to fight them off me..).  I usually think I'll just plant a few plants and wonder why it takes 5x longer than I think it will.  You'd think planting would be the quick bit.  I bet it took an age to plant all those!

themadvix

QueenJess said:

Eating from the garden is always exciting (I am stupidly excited that I have 4 strawberries to eat later, although I think DS is going to fight them off me..).  I usually think I'll just plant a few plants and wonder why it takes 5x longer than I think it will.  You'd think planting would be the quick bit.  I bet it took an age to plant all those!

It so is! My strawberries aren't quite ready yet but I'm inspecting them (and the raspberries - of which there are hundreds!) daily.

It took all afternoon - the most difficult bit is working out where to put them! The pack I received (which was a gift) was meant to use 2 sqm - which is the size of my veg bed - well it only had room at the recommended distancing for 3 of the types of veg!