Caz counts it down

cazmanian_minx

Ooh, and another 40 minutes now coming in from a journalist on Sunday night - that's £85-worth of typing over two days. A bit of MB-ing as well and this could be a £100 weekend!

Verbatim

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Er, they were off from 2am until about 3pm. I've had to do a lot of apologising, but everybody's been very nice about it /QUOTE]

Good. I should hope so too! It was hardly your fault.
Well done with your strength of will! Do you think you'll carry on with the yoga? I won't suggest sugar free too.

cazmanian_minx

24.5 minutes into the typing, which isn't great progress, but I've been sorting out water for the horses (no tap in their current field) and feeding the sheep.

I'll definitely be carrying on with the yoga, I've got into a nice habit now where we get up at 6, Mr Minx leaves for work at 7.15, I do my yoga and then go out and do the animals. At weekends, I still get up at 6 to let the dogs out and the series of videos I'm doing (Yoga with Adriene 31-day Revolution on YouTube) is new and the one for each day is uploaded at 7am, so I can do it while Mr Minx is still asleep.

As for the sugar-free, I'd like to keep going. I've lost 4.5lbs in three weeks, the bags under my eyes have reduced and the eczema I get on my scalp is much, much better. I'm allowing myself a couple of days off for the first weekend of February, which is a big family celebration for mother-in-law's 90th birthday (rude not to have a slice of cake!) and then again at the end of March when I'm having a weekend in London and hopefully lunch out with a group of friends, but I'd like to keep it at two days a month or fewer if possible and see what happens.

cazmanian_minx

Morning! I'm happy to report that I have just 20 minutes of audio left to type at the moment, plus the file coming in from Journalist #3 later to do this evening I think today needs a list and while I acknowledge that I won't get everything on it done unless a miracle happens, I do at least have a record of what needs doing.

• [STRIKE]Feed horses[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Feed sheep [STRIKE](x2)[/STRIKE] (x1)[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Walk dogs [STRIKE](x2)[/STRIKE] (x1)[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Yoga video[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Let collie have another short run on the sheep (he keeps herding the spaniel and it's driving her nuts!)[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]20-minute file for market research people[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]40-minute file for Journalist #3[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Ironing pile (a minimum of Mr Minx's shirts)[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Make soup with the remaining parsnips I dug up yesterday[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Dig up more spuds[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Help Mr Minx get the old iron fireplace out of the other house[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Find John A's tractor top link, because he's coming to pick it up next week[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Get some bets on various offers today[/STRIKE]
• Do the decrofting maps
• Book hotel for London weekend

That's all, off the top of my head, though I'm sure I'll think of more shortly!

cazmanian_minx

The 40-minute file has turned up and is 60 minutes instead, which means that this is now officially a £100 weekend

Pippilongstocking

Well done!

cazmanian_minx

So much for the hard weekend's earning - I've got a splitting headache today and really haven't felt up to much I've done a grand total of 30 minutes for Mr RPC so far (so £6). Fingers crossed the paracetamol I just had with lunch will kick in shortly.

Anyway, a big surprise today. I had a phone call on Saturday night from John, who guided me through my haymaking last summer, asking me for a phone number for my tractor insurers (his insurance is five times mine, but I'm on a special policy for vintage machines and he's not) and saying something about blades and mowers and sharpening things with files that I didn't really follow. He turned up this morning to collect the top link for his tractor, which he'd lent me for a bit, and when I came back from the shed with it, was standing there with two 5-foot shark-tooth blades. He has a Massey Ferguson finger bar mower he doesn't need any more and he's refusing to take any money from me for it because he said he put that hay barn roof on in 1991 and it really shouldn't have come off this soon! So he's going to make a shedder for the mower so I can cut hay with it as well as field rushes, and once it's done I need to take my tractor over to his place and collect it. Gobsmacked!

They are somewhat scary-looking beasts - this is a picture of a similar one. How to lose a hand in one easy lesson!!

eco_farmer

buy a small drum mower far better cut and far less dangerous!

eco

cazmanian_minx

eco_farmer wrote: »

buy a small drum mower far better cut and far less dangerous!

eco

True, but sadly not free, which is about the size of my budget at the moment!

JustAboutThere

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Er, they were off from 2am until about 3pm. I've had to do a lot of apologising, but everybody's been very nice about it

Did cake baking come into the apologising

That is one massive piece of kit you've been offered. Be careful with it. But free is always nice - even if it looks lethal.