Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

Right, today's and tomorrow's jobs:

• [strike]Muck out field shelter field[/strike]
• [strike]Muck out bottom field[/strike]
• [strike]Fill up remaining [strike]three[/strike] [strike]two[/strike] half raised bed[/strike]
• [strike]Pack books for UPS collection[/strike]
• [strike]Ironing pile[/strike]
• [strike]Clean house[/strike]
• [strike]Pack up eBay orders[/strike]
• [strike]Transcription shift on Monday if there's any work[/strike] - which numpty forgot she never books herself on shift on a Monday then....??
• Take remaining 16 bales from the trailer to the hay shed
• Weed the garden

I'm sure there was something else, I may have to add to it later. For now though, it's shovels ahoy!

dawnybabes

Eat Easter eggs ?

cazmanian_minx

dawnybabes wrote: »

Eat Easter eggs ?

None in the house! Mr Minx did buy me a Lindt bunny on Friday, but that got eaten the same day

cazmanian_minx

Ground zero:


Bed frames in place with the ends left off so I can get the wheelbarrow in:


I thought it was going to be about 10 barrowloads per frame, but that was five:


Today's stopping point - two filled, two to go:


Mr Minx has spent the day making a cold frame out of two of the old windows:


I've found some vegetable seeds in a drawer upstairs, so before I buy anything else, I'll whack them on the kitchen windowsill in a propagator and see if any of them germinate.

In other, non-vegetable-related, news, I've sold a perfume set

Chrysalis1976

Wow that looks amazing, such a beautiful place to live.

C x

cazmanian_minx

Half a raised bed, the cleaning, the ironing, the hay and the garden left to go on the list The outdoor stuff has got to be done by Thursday lunchtime because that's when we're due to get rain. The indoor stuff can wait because Mr Minx has the week off and therefore doesn't need work shirts doing and if we're going to be in and out of the garden for the next few days, there's no point in doing the housework (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it ).

I did actually do some work this morning. The Easter Sunday eBay experiment with free postage was remarkably successful - normally it's a very, very quiet day for sales, double so when the weather is as nice as it was yesterday, but I had 35 :eek::eek: Most of which I've made a loss on, thanks to not charging P&P, but it's a pretty cheap way of finding out what I wanted to know about eBay's new search algorithm, i.e. it gives a MASSIVE boost to items that qualify for its Fast & Free flag. I've put the postage charge back on while I have a think about what this means for my business and how best to use it to my advantage.

My YNAB buffer is slowly getting there - nearly at £600 now after I added the perfume money and the £68 Mr Minx gave me for his share of the weekend shopping and the new dog bed for the windowsill. The books and DVDs are booked for pick up tomorrow (I'm guessing it'll probably be Wednesday, given where I am) and assuming they're all accepted, that'll be another £53 which will take it over the £600 mark. For anyone reading who's not come across the YNAB system, the idea is to build a buffer of one month's expenses, so eventually you have the money to cover all your spending for the month before the month starts. Once I've got a full buffer and I've budgeted for annual spends, I can start overpaying on the cards.

Oh, and just for fun, I re-took the transcription company's speed typing test. When I applied I was something like 72wpm - today I got 91wpm, both with 100% accuracy True what they say about practice makes perfect

DebtFree2012

Morning Caz,


Another week begins (for me!) but at least it's a short 4 day one. Love reading your diary. How's the aches after all that shovelling?
Hope all the animals are doing well too.


Interesting re eBay's new search formula..... any thoughts on how you will use to your advantage?


Great pics x

cazmanian_minx

DebtFree2012 wrote: »

Morning Caz,

Another week begins (for me!) but at least it's a short 4 day one. Love reading your diary. How's the aches after all that shovelling?
Hope all the animals are doing well too.

Interesting re eBay's new search formula..... any thoughts on how you will use to your advantage?

Great pics x

Amazingly I'm not aching too much, a hot shower and a good night's sleep seemed to sort me out each day. The animals are all fine, thank you, touch wood

With eBay I think I'm going to have to look at what usually sells in multiple item orders and what usually sells in single item orders, leave a postage charge on the multiple ones and change the price of the single ones so that they go free postage. In practice, this probably means that all the cabochons, cabochon settings and resin flatbacks will stay as they are and most of the rest will get changed.

I don't seem to have achieved much today, but it's felt very busy. I packed and posted the orders, did a half hour transcription file, caught up with my accounts, handed over my box of books to UPS and did the assessment test for the proofreading work I expressed an interest in - yes, they took me forward to the next stage

This evening Mr Minx is out. I've been good and done the ironing and mostly cleaned the house (just the kitchen and bathroom left, which can wait until tomorrow) and now I'm decluttering the Sky box

Oh, and I sold another perfume set, or so I thought, only to get an eBay message two minutes later saying she hadn't meant to buy it, she was trying to find out what the lowest price I'd accept for a Best Offer was and didn't think that meant she had to buy it. I've cancelled the order and will have to wait for the next free listing day to offer Buy It Nows, or the new 20 free listings a month to start in May to re-list it.

mfmaybe

You are making me feel very lazy as I really should be cleaning the house - although on the plus side my ironing is at least up to date!

Annoying about the ebay sale but at least there is interest, so it sounds like it will sell easily again, fingers crossed. I'm always amazed by how well horsey stuff sells, then massively disappointed when other stuff goes for ridiculously low amounts.

The veg beds look great. Fantastic to put all that manure to good use, you can pretend the horses have earned their keep this year

EssexHebridean

I can vouch for the enormity of that slice of cake - you made a manful effort with it, but there was only ever going to be one winner I fear! Lovely to meet you anyway - there was a brief moment when we were on our way round to Scrabster where we wondered if turning down a lift was going to be proved foolish, thankfully though the light shower blew over quite fast and we arrived at the ferry as dry as we'd left the cafe, so all good! (And after those brownies the leg-stretch was very definitely required!)

Veg beds and coldframes look fantastic. Funny how the amount of soil/compost/manure required to fill such things is always about double what you expect, though. I remember this phenomenon well from the allotment! :rotfl: