Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

KNEW I'd forget one!

10. Do Mr RPC's accounts.

Verbatim

And number 11: Relax.

cazmanian_minx

That's what the magazines and the Easter egg scoffing are on the list for

Transcription queue down to 4 hours 35 minutes, all the laundry done and drying. I planned to watch the X-Files season 10 finale and catch up on the Blacklist, but half an hour after finishing the X-Files, I'm still sitting here going 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, THEY CAN'T LEAVE IT THERE!!!!!' so the Blacklist can wait until tomorrow!

castlelough

Hi Caz,
I haven't been on in ages. Just stopping by to congratulate you on keeping on keeping on! Oh and also to say how impressed I am that you can harrow and roll the fields yourself! :T Very accomplished indeed. I hope to learn to tow a horsebox this year, but you are in another league altogether!
Good luck with your list and hope you have a good weekend!

cazmanian_minx

Hello, long time no see I haven't actually harrowed and rolled them yet, and it's only a small one of each towed off the back of the quad However, I have, in the past fortnight, got over my utter dislike of driving the quad and actually managed (a) 4th gear and (b) a three-point turn the other day (not simultaneously!), so am now reasonably okay on the flat, though I wouldn't want to take it up the hill to the common grazings quite yet...

Transcription queue now down to 2 hours 43 minutes. The sheep have had their MOTs, mostly painlessly for all concerned (at least, all the vaccine, drenches and pour-ons went into the sheep rather than into any humans, which counts as a success in my book!), and I went and sized up the harrow for ease of getting it back to my house - think I might manage with a wheelbarrow. Or at least one half of it - it's a double mat one, but the second half had been stuck up against a fence and a tree has grown through it, so I'm going to need to saw a few bits of wood off before I can lift it down. Half of it will be enough to see if it's going to work or not - I may need something with thinner tines for home and next door, as there's not much sward. It'll be perfect for ripping out the big grass mat down the road

cazmanian_minx

Transcription queue down to two files/53 minutes and their owner doesn't need them back by Tuesday, so I may do one tomorrow and one on Tuesday evening.

Have made a start on the magazine pile and scoffed my Easter egg Also got an email notification through about the Hotel Chocolat sale, so I have an extra thick Rocky Road egg on the way, down to £13.50 from £27, with 12% Quidco cashback and 1% credit card cashback.

No chance to get into the garden today, partly because of the weather (though this afternoon was very nice) but mostly because I seem to have pulled something in my leg yesterday, either sheep-wrangling or trying to wrestle a harrow out of a tree, and it hurts rather a lot. Better than it was this morning though, so hopefully tomorrow it'll be back to normal.

JustAboutThere

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

I planned to watch the X-Files season 10 finale and catch up on the Blacklist, but half an hour after finishing the X-Files, I'm still sitting here going 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, THEY CAN'T LEAVE IT THERE!!!!!' so the Blacklist can wait until tomorrow!

I know. Think of it this way - maybe it means another series to come . . . Hopefully.

I'd not heard great things about Series 10, so I'd taped them all and watched the lot over the weekend. Whilst not up to some parts of the original series, there was enough there to keep me intrigued. And some of the episodes that were definitely panned by the critics, I actually liked.

I did enjoy some of the digs and in-jokes that kept cropping up. Going by the internet reviews I think I missed a few, so I may have to go back and rewatch.

cazmanian_minx

I thought there were some lovely comic touches - the whole Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster episode made me laugh, particularly the bit where Mulder has the series theme tune as his ringtone, and the bit in Babylon where Mulder thinks he's on magic mushrooms had to be rewound and watched again!

Nearly the end of the month and fingers crossed the invoice total is looking potentially healthy. The application for my Basic Payment Scheme (the replacement for the Single Farm Payment) is being done, so fingers crossed I may have some croft income from May onwards.

JustAboutThere

This is one quote from Scully that I loved - about the heels:

"Mulder: What? I wasn't going to shoot the kid. And I don't do stairs anymore.

Scully: Mulder, back in the day, I used to do stairs and in three-inch heels.

Mulder: Back in the day. Scully, back in the day is now."

cazmanian_minx

Yes, that was a classic!

Right, an hour and a half of invoicing later, I have some March scores on the doors (annual ones to follow in a week or so, as it was my year end yesterday).

Journalist #2 £27.33
Market research agency £244.45
PhD student #1 £100.50
NEL £302.50
Journalist #1 £70.00
Mr RPC £925.75 (including £8.75 expenses)
Big agency £63.00

Total (excluding the expenses): £1,724.78 :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I've just had to add that up twice, because I'd no idea it was going to be that high - I was thinking maybe £1,450-ish!

Work is already piling up for next week, I have a ton of stuff for Mr RPC, as usual, I've got two interviews coming from Journalist #1, just had one in from Journalist #3 and have 20 minutes for small agency to do before Sunday morning plus 55 minutes for NEL due back Wednesday-ish.

If I can keep up this rate, anything I make from renting out the house down the road can be snowballed into new investments, I won't have to touch it.