Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

DECLUTTERING
18 - 23. Five shirts and t shirts had their buttons cut off, and then cut up for rags or for furushiki, which wikipedia tells me is "a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth traditionally used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods".

I find the idea irresistible and I do need some rags. The buttons are going to be used to create a collage-type thing for the cat designs.

Apologising for numbering the clothes individually - if I don't, I'll never make any headway

Karmacat

Right, the govt advice for self employed peeps is this:
You must keep your records for at least 5 years after 31 January of the relevant tax year.
Example
If you send your 2013 to 2014 tax return online by 31 January 2015, you must keep your records until at least the end of January 2020.


On this page: https://www.gov.uk/self-employed-records/how-long-to-keep-your-records


So working backwards, my tax records for 2008-2009 can now safely bite the dust :j

Karmacat

This morning is an example of how I get stuck ... I'm such a bad person

I've spent almost the whole morning on ancestry, researching this new bloke I'm after, who dodged about between Ireland, London, Alberta, Toronto, France and back to London. And I've just found him as a 12 year old in Northamptonshire, norty little boy :j

Ahem, I have client work this afternoon, better get outside for a walk up and down the road so I'm paying attention ...

Karmacat

Great success to report: ZTD's method of cleaning up an old teastrainer (burning off the tea residue) is really successful. Nice ones at JL are a minimum a tenner, and mine is lovely lines so its a tenner gained/saved :j

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

This morning is an example of how I get stuck ... I'm such a bad person

I've spent almost the whole morning on ancestry, researching this new bloke I'm after, who dodged about between Ireland, London, Alberta, Toronto, France and back to London. And I've just found him as a 12 year old in Northamptonshire, norty little boy :j

Ahem, I have client work this afternoon, better get outside for a walk up and down the road so I'm paying attention ...

It's nice when you find an ancestor searching high and low for them.

I spent months searching for my Scottish great grand mother. I had got back to 1871, when she had moved to England, but it took ages to find her in Scotland.

Then one day I tried again, and found her in 1851 and 1861 in Scotland.

I will definitely have an Ancestry rummage tomorrow.

Cheery_Daff

I've never even considered looking for my ancestors, very impressed!
Great work on the tea strainer too - always good to save a bit of dosh! :j :money:

Karmacat

Thanks both! I love genealogy, I really do, I even love the process of the research ... it takes you up so many interesting little byways ...I've deleted half a dozen sentences there, other people's genealogy can get very boring ;)

I'm staggered at the tea strainer thing :rotfl: just having a go at it with steel wool after every few matches and its really coming clean

The other project is cutting up and old fabric handbag - I wanted to use the lining for furushiku, but its stained, so no go. So I'm cutting off the beads and sequins and whatnot, for use in crafty pursuits :j

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm staggered at the tea strainer thing :rotfl: just having a go at it with steel wool after every few matches and its really coming clean

Right...so what's so staggering about it?

It probably would have been cheaper to buy a lighter though.

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

Right...so what's so staggering about it?

That it works *so* well! Its brilliant :j Its been sitting in a drawer, unuseable, for about a million years. And I knew nothing about the technique, zero, zilch, nada

It probably would have been cheaper to buy a lighter though.

No idea, Z, but I didn't buy the matches specially, they were in stock, so free at point-of-use and [whispers] I quite enjoyed it :rotfl:

Karmacat

Today is a "keep warm, I refuse to get ill again" sort of day.

Just read a headliner in the Daily Fail online about a couple in their 60s and 70s who had a £500k house and made some ignorant financial decisions - nothing conceited or crazy, just ignorant - and are now living rough at Heathrow, having fallen through all the welfare cracks. Never going to be like that! Though the French purchase was my own form of ignorance - just like them, benefits are impossible for me, no matter how low my income goes, because I have all that money invested in the flat. Even if I decided to sell tomorrow and repay the VAT, they take a couple of years minimum to sell, so say the owners' websites. Articles like that do focus the mind.

Anyway, dishwasher's on, teastrainer is ready for one last effort , some tidying has been done, more *will* be done especially in the office, which hasn't been touched since the first push.

Then I'm going to play on ancestry :j check out my own ancestors, see if I can fill in any gaps in census records, for instance. And have a longer walk today, need to get my stamina up.