Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

What a lot of lovely, thoughtful posts to come back to. Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. I didn't do anything yesterday, not at all, not even returning New Year texts, tho I did go online to get a supermarket delivery for Monday - lots of protein, lots of frozen veg that just has to be chucked in a pan.

The NYE stuff I did that was too much - I stayed out a fraction over the length of time I'd stayed out the previous day, about 40 minutes. But I went into town - I bought two sets of half price Christmas cards, and I wandered around Robert Dyas for 5 minutes or so. That was all, and it was too much.

Thinking about it - I did get a twinge as I was reaching the town centre, thinking that it wasn't such a good idea, but I knew how little I was going to do, so I did it anyway. Bad idea. As Z says (and he *is* wise, you're right, RT!) even when you're not doing anything, its going to be too much sometimes. I hope this does shift, eventually.

Actually, it can, even at my age - used to know a woman in Brighton who rented out her house just during the winter, while she went off to Brazil or India and lay on the beach. It can be done.

Karmacat

The thing I find most difficult is having to break commitments - I make precious few social commitments anyway, but even those I'm having to break - my Egyptology, my games evenings, my Christmas and New Year celebrations, even just recently. And for work! It might be the best role modelling to plan to stop work this year. There is a thing of "you're supposed to have dealt with all this !!!!", but of course we don't, not all of it.

Ed, the thing that we need to formulate is how I can put elastic into my finances, and make everything stretch until I get a boost from the state pension.

Been thinking about that, and laying in bed I was scribbling out the alternatives: stay in this house, buy one flat and invest the rest of the money, or buy two flats, one for investment. And I've started to write down the pros and cons for me of each version of events.

Another issue is that one of the cheapest towns to live in, in my county, is where my sister lives - need to know how she'd feel about me living so comparatively close to her. Thats if I chose one of the flat options.

We'll see. I'll return those New Year texts today, I think, and see where we go from there. What I have to remember is that this is starting to get a bit serious, I don't have the stamina I used to, and that my life and living standards are just as important - no more, no less - as those of my clients.

Goldiegirl

Or get on a cruise ship for the winter.


We met a couple who got on the ship on the same day as us, were staying on for the New Year Cruise, and then staying on for the World Cruise! They'll be back home sometime in April. And they were staying in a suite, so heaven knows how much it cost. :eek:


But, thinking about it, if we rented our house out, we could probably manage an inside cabin!


Hmm, got me thinking now!:rotfl:

Karmacat

I think a cruise ship might be a bit much for my finances :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: but I love the idea!

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Goldiegirl wrote: »

I THINK we were successful in dodging the germs - I did have a sore throat for a while but it seems to have gone now

Cruise ships are a nightmare for lurgies. Mainly older people in an enclosed environment - once a germ gets a hold, they go down like ninepins!:eek:

Not sure a cruise ship would be the answer for you, Karmacat! All those lurgies about:eek:

Didn't mean to describe you as an 'older' person:o. This quote was from an earlier post by Goldiegirl about cruises in general.

So sorry to hear your new year hasn't got off to the start you would have wanted, Karmacat. Sending lots of :coffee: and :kisses3:your way.

Karmacat

You're right CBC, in all senses! I'd forgotten what Goldie wrote about the lurgies in a heated, enclosed place ... and Goldie is *fairly* near me in age, her OH definitely is, I don't think she was referring to **us** as the oldies but even so, I *am* an oldie compared to some on here.

And thats something I need to take into account, possibly - even my very active friends are slowing down a bit, they're 62 and 67 ... I need to step up to the risks, I think - its now a question of working smart, not working hard.

Speaking of which ... three bluebottles upstairs in the last two days! !!!!!!? :rotfl: Each on a different window, and I have flyscreens on the windows I *do* open. I must have brought something in, or maybe they flew in while I was taking the recycling out ... seems a lot, for two days, when I've never had any before. Any ideas?

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Speaking of which ... three bluebottles upstairs in the last two days! !!!!!!? :rotfl: Each on a different window, and I have flyscreens on the windows I *do* open. I must have brought something in, or maybe they flew in while I was taking the recycling out ... seems a lot, for two days, when I've never had any before. Any ideas?

How warm is it outside? Warm enough for flying insects to survive? If not, you possibly have something inside the house which is (or has been recently) a bit maggotty...

gallygirl

ZTD wrote: »

How warm is it outside? Warm enough for flying insects to survive? If not, you possibly have something inside the house which is (or has been recently) a bit maggotty...

You're not THAT poorly are you KC :eek:.

Years ago we went to Tenerife in the winter and our hotel had lots of retired folk staying for 6 weeks, then going home to do admin etc then arranging to meet up in Cyprus in March. Seemed a great life , but they did all still have their own homes.

Alchemilla

Get well soon KC.x

Karmacat

Hiya! No, its definitely not *me* thats maggoty, I'm really not that unwell :D:D

The only thing I can think of is that in that brief break of time when I was recovering, I unpacked some plastic bags that had been in storage for ages ... there was possibly something dormant in them. That fits with being upstairs ... its not a kitchen thing, thank heavens!

Gally, yes, I've heard about overwintering in hotels like that - that might be the best option of all for me, especially in a vaguely historical area, historian that I am.

Just watched the Strictly Christmas Special on iplayer