Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Goodness me KC! :eek: Glad you got in eventually. Bizarrely, someone else I know online managed to lock herself out yesterday too - although she managed to break in to the shed, retrieve ladders, and somehow let herself in through the cat flap (no, I don't know how that works either!)

Ladders and cat flaps ... the mind boggles :rotfl:

And I too can testify to the fact that it is possible to lock yourself out of the car :rotfl: I'd spent years with an old post office van that it WAS impossible to lock yourself out of because the windows at the back just slid open and you could climb in through those. When I got a newer car that didn't have broken slidey windows, I managed to lock the keys inside.

Fortunately I'd just arrived at my mother's house (at 2am - no idea why!!) - I would have left it til the morning but keys were on full view and her neighbourhood isn't so nice... RAC were very nice and broke in with some kind of inflatable thing - didn't charge me extra either (although they said they would if I did the same thing again... :rotfl: )

Aren't we a right lot!

We definitely are :rotfl: as a student, of course, I did it all the time, but the sash windows didn't lock, so we just used to climb in - never broke one, either

Goldiegirl wrote: »

That sounds like a very stressful experience.

Glad you are back in your house once again.

Thank you Goldie! I got pretty cold, even in my business partner's van, that was the worst. I was with him the whole time, and he insisted on staying on with me at first, and then me coming home with them, he was an absolute sweetheart :j

When I used to go on repossessions, we'd engage a locksmith to get us into the property, and it was astonishing how quickly he could get into the house.

There'd be me from the building society, a bailiff, an estate agent and the locksmith, grouped on the front doorstep, basically breaking into the house. I'm surprised no neighbours called the police, as it must have looked very suspicious.

I was really shocked at how fast the locksmith opened the door - am definitely always going to use the deadbolt now, though I must say the lock's taken a bit of a beating from our efforts last night still works tho!

Hope you've had a nice day to make up for the trauma.

Also I'm excited that you've undertaken to do some MB - I'm your MB cheerleader:j

I have, thanks - got properly warmed up, had brunch, just took it easy, and then this afternoon I *did* get out into the garden, cut some of the grass and weeded like crazy.

Thanks for the cheerleading :beer: honestly, £90!!! Crazy. I'll be reviewing info tonight, I think.

greent

gallygirl wrote: »

It is possible if you only open the boot, put something in, including the keys, then close it again :eek:.

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I can confirm this - DH did this at Legoland the other year with his new 2 week old car. One of the hottest days. There after hours with 4 kids, no food, no drinks except a small bottle of water (inc a breastfeeding toddler) Took RAC 2 hours to break in - but the guy was a star and managed it (eventually) without damaging the car at all

rtandon27

Awww KC - what a horrible experience!

:kisses3:

Glad you are home & warm and recovering! Thank goodness you have such lovely caring friends!

Karmacat

greent wrote: »

I can confirm this - DH did this at Legoland the other year with his new 2 week old car. One of the hottest days. There after hours with 4 kids, no food, no drinks except a small bottle of water (inc a breastfeeding toddler) Took RAC 2 hours to break in - but the guy was a star and managed it (eventually) without damaging the car at all

That sounds horrendous with 4 children :eek: the lack of damage is interesting, isn't it - same with my front door! And I can confirm that security film works a treat:p my keys were actually on the windowsill *right* by the front door, and I couldn't see them even from four inches away, not even a dark blurry shape! Full marks there :T

rtandon27 wrote: »

Awww KC - what a horrible experience!

:kisses3:

Glad you are home & warm and recovering! Thank goodness you have such lovely caring friends!

Aww, thank you RT. I was very cold, and more than a bit hungry by the time I got in, even though I had such a lot of help, and I must say I've been snuffling for England today ... I think the stress of it has tired me out, but I was always safe, and I was (nearly ) always warm. Realised how late it is now, so I'm off to bed sharpish. Sleep well all xxx and thank you.

Goldiegirl

Ditto, I've just realised how late it is too.

I'm getting up later in the mornings too.

Ideally I like to be up by about 8am on home weekdays. It's more like 9am at the moment.

I don't like to waste the day, but I'm very sluggish in the mornings.

See you tomorrow

Karmacat

Ooh, I need to be careful about when I go to bed because a late start for me is about 7am, unfortunately though a couple of weeks ago, I did manage to stay in bed till 8, it was bliss.

Right, back to the list for this week:

• travel book (publishing).
• cat designs
• matched betting
• financial accounts
• Christmas cards and wrapping presents.
• garlic planting, pruning everything else.

Yesterday:
- half an hour in the garden, tho that was mostly cutting grass and clearing.
- fetched Christmas bags and wrapping paper, got the presents-so-far together, matched a few up and the Christmas cards are there. I think I'll need more mustn't let that happen again.
- got a separate little booklet to use for details of matched betting log-ins, and sorted which offers to go for.
- wrote most of a blogpost draft to go with the emergency travel book, about locking yourself out there's a lot of lessons I can usefully list in one place

And today:
- sign up the new matched betting firms, and I also have to learn how to use the crazy ones from betfair.
- client work today.
- therefore, a bit of cleaning!
- sort out the pros and cons of varying publishing methods.
- carry on with the blogpost draft about lockout.
- I'd like to do a bit of work in the garden, but I think that'll probably go by the board.

That'll do :money:

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

That'll do :money:

That seems like quite enough to be getting on with.:)

I'm not a natural morning person. I managed to get up just after 8 this morning, but it's killing me getting up on working days at around 6.30am.

I'm more of an owl. In my teenage years, if I wasn't at school or work, I'd often go to bed at 3am, and get up at around noon, which suited me better.

I'm hoping I don't revert back to that, as it wastes a lot of daylight.

Have a good day

Karmacat

I'm owl *and* lark, which is a tad inconvenient sometimes

I'm studying the crazy offers from betfair at the mo, and posted in the shiny new questions thread, but I think they're just too complicated - I'll stick to new firms and their reloads for the moment. Done a bit of cleaning, and also quite a bit of scanning of used postage stamps that have cats on them (and that *wasn't* on the list ) so now I'll finish the first draft of the locked-out blogpost. Then food!

Have a good'un yourself, Goldie

Cheery_Daff

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm owl *and* lark, which is a tad inconvenient sometimes

I sometimes get the impression I'm neither - useless at staying up late and also useless at getting up in the morning - not at all convenient! :rotfl:

Good list you've got yourself there! :j

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm owl *and* lark, which is a tad inconvenient sometimes

Not really - just utilise Nanna naps .