Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks mizmir! I weighed it on the kitchen scales, so although its a tiny sum I actually make, I definitely shouldn't *lose* money, which wasn't always the case when I started :cool:

Yep, its a great start to the week, I've *had* to be focussed - just got time now to get to the post office (I love these electronic machines where I print it out myself, I like playing with them ) and back here for work. Then I'm working till 8, so ... sayonara for today :hello: hope everyone's having a good one

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...Thats really all I can guarantee I'll have time for...those four numbered items, I *really* want them done.

A list! - any list is a good one KC!
Even more importantly - you've got focus on what you really want to get done.:D

:kisses3:
RT

Cheery_Daff

:hello:

Just popping in with a confession-that's-not-really-a-confession :rotfl:

At the weekend i brought my 4 bags of books downstairs, yesterday i put them by the back door, and today I put them in the car :j

Popped to the shops, parked outside the charity shop and actually TOOK THEM IN!!! :j :j :j

Sadly the absolute fiends wouldn't take them off me so i had to bring them home again :eek:

But i tried, really i did!! I was so pleased with myself and everything :rotfl:

We actually have 4 charity shops but one was shut and the other two had 'no donations' notices :eek: am i destined to have these books forever?? :eek: :rotfl:

hope you had a good day today kc

Karmacat

Morning all! :hello:

Cheery, good heavens! A no donation notice? After all your hard work at actually putting them in the car and taking them into the shop :eek: these people have no mercy :rotfl: But very well done you :j:j:j :kisses3:

RT, thanks - you're right, of course, about the list. It reminds me of that saying, if you want something done, ask a busy person. I'm always busy, but when you've got external deadlines, busy-ness takes on new meaning :rotfl::o

The book got posted, and even posting 2nd class and using a recycled envelope, I made a £1.50 return, which is about the absolute minimum I want these days.

No paid work today, and my emails are done and replied, so the list will be somewhat longer :
- online funding of cahoot a/c.
- one more email: my business partner, who's sunning himself in foreign climes with family right now
- see to post, I've got a couple of days stacked up
- store the accounts paperwork in its final resting place (final for 6 or 7 years anyway, till HMRC tell me I can throw it :j)
- do some gardening/clearing to break the monotony of paperwork.
- the cat website!

Now, moggies :happyhear I have a list of 15 things I can potentially do, everything from writing about Doris Lessing and her cats to constructing wordles to sorting my camera out. As I say, I keep busy

But I'm off to look round mse first

DedicatedDFW

Hi KC - a good list you have there with lots of different things to achieve on it

I am just defrosting before making a start on my list for today

Karmacat

Thanks DD! I've done the cahoot thing, done the email to my partner, and erm, skipped straight to the cat website :rotfl: tidying up the bookmarks on Firefox - its pootling, behind the scenes work, but doing research on cats is no good if its in with chocolate porridge cake, sea salt, and holiday cottages :rotfl:

And I *do* have paid work - by phone, which means I don't need to brush my hair again (I'm kidding! but I don't have to move the cleaning stuff to make the porch presentable

Thats 3/5 - okay, time for a cuppa tea, and opening the post, and, um, work :cool:

Karmacat

I'm quite pleased with what I've done - I went straight back to the cat website bookmarks, and then because they were all laid out so prettily I decided to work up the page about caring for your cat. I haven't written the advice myself - I've linked to the best-quality UK charities - PDSA, RSPCA, Cats Protection League, that sort of level - as well as the Animal Welfare Act, and dug down to find the actual advice. I think its worked pretty well. So thats the standard page, and there'll be another page about what *new* research is telling us :j

And then because I was *really* bored with the computer, I went out to the garden in the last half hour of light, little bit of weeding, but started a new job that I really want to do - small but important. Clearing a windowsill box thats been sitting on the patio, it was choked with weeds and roots and moss, cleaned it up, along with
the drainage "pot" for it, and started filling it with drainage stones - I'm going to use it for things that are really unhappy in this heavy soil, like my sedums, and maybe the garlic too, not sure. Plus moving piles of stones around, to wash them and get them somewhere productive. Really chuffed :j:j

So *still* no chocolate porridge cake but I *am* going to have a cup of tea while I mix some bannocks up and have them sizzling on the hob :beer:

Karmacat

I made a really good crop of bannocks! The secret is having the computer in the kitchen so I don't get impatient and ruin it or undercook it, but I can still hear that its doing okay :rotfl:

Really, I just popped on to write a reminder, to definitely talk to my niece in law (and I happen to be seeing her on Saturday at a family do) about finding a reputable, cheap accountant in France, I'm being charged very nearly E400 for what must be an hour's work. Not good enough, and they ignored my query about rates, just sent their invoice :rotfl:

Karmacat

Very late in the day on here! Must do better ... still, I'm working soon, that'll make me pay attention :rotfl: very tempted to make some more bannocks this evening .

Oh, and I have to go to the post office again :j sold a small book, but will give me a greater profit than Delia, about the history of one of Liverpool's big prisons. Wasn't of use to me for my genealogy, and frankly it was really badly written and researched, but its the only one of its kind (maybe there's an opening for me!)

mizmir

Sounds like an opening - but isn't it frustrating when people don't do the job properly? I had that with a book I had on a local asylum that one of my ancestors was in. It was full of unjustified assumptions and leaps of inference. Drove me mad! But useful photos and basic information.

Talking of geneaology - I signed up for the Family History Writing Challenge this month - have you ever done it? I did it last year and wrote quite a bit. Haven't even got off the blocks yet this year!

Bannocks sound yum! Please can I have mine with butter?