Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Fogger has arrived, haven't had time to unpack it, so it'll wait for another day. Client work done, walk done, and I've brought the scanner down to the kitchen so I can sit in the warm instead of abandoning it for the office upstairs. Means I'll be able to do a lot more.

For now - I've got an IV of nice hot tea

Karmacat

In all seriousness, Cheery, I know what you mean. Probably my line is a bit higher than yours ... but when people are buying 3 cars at £100k each, and their house is £5million, and their drive is lined with stones brought from the other side of the planet ... I mean, I know those people are providing employment in their way, but they could provide a lot more, and live a lot more lightly on the earth, by doing things differently. Imagine spending that money on buying degraded land, and providing employment by detoxifying it and nursing it back to health ... if you've ever read Woman on the Edge of Time, thats where I'm coming from.

//gets off soapbox.

Lula-Hula

Oh dear KC

now I have to confess that rather than collect all the leaves and put in black bags .... I've subscribed to the LA's garden waste collection scheme

I'm keeping the garden as easy as I can these days, only big project is to create a herb rockery

I utterly loathe the workings of going to the tip; remove everything from the car, put the back seats down, lay out the plastic sheet, hoist bags in to the car, drive to the tip and then reverse the whole process. I can only get 3 bags in the car at one time so I'd need to be going nearly every week and that is not my idea of fun at all and no matter how careful I am there are always some bugs/8 legs which manage to escape and roam about the car :eek:

So an annual fee of £31 and a fortnightly collection whereby I simply have to wheel the bin from back garden to the kerb just about won the contest:rotfl:

Goldie - lovely to hear there are others descended from Wheelwrights too ! I have a wonderful picture of my Great, Great, Great Grandfather and his second wife on a little trap with what looks suspiciously like a donkey hitched to it. He does look a bit like Steptoe but grooming probably wasn't such a thing in the 1800's !

I'm off to investigate your fogger link now KC

Karmacat

Aww, Lula, the main point is recycling - and you recycle! Enjoy the extra time that your way of recycling brings you

And I'm totally, totally with you on avoiding the 8 legs in your car :eek:

Lula-Hula

Quite !

I used to leave the sunroof open in summer as my is in a garage at night. Until the day I was driving along and an 8 legs started abseiling down in front of me. I screeched to halt and accosted a burly builder man by the side of the road to remove it for me !

Never left the roof or windows open again.

*shudders at the memory and head off to make calming tea*

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A distant cousin started our family research years ago but hit the proverbial 'brick wall'. After a long chat at a family funeral my brother was enthused enough to take it on and managed to discover a lot of interesting stuff. Amazingly, in the 1700s my father's ancestors lived within 5 miles of where I live now, information my brother only unearthed quite recently. I had absolutely no idea of the connection when I moved to this county for a job in the late 1970s. It's the other end of the country from where later family members lived so I hadn't a clue. Seems so weird, to be so close to my roots. Fate, kismet, call it what you will.

Even more eerie, OH and I had been for a long walk in a bit of an unspoilt/isolated area about 10 miles from here and came across a deconsecrated semi-derelict village church that we had never seen before. We knew of its existence from maps but the trees and undergrowth all round it hid it from view to people driving past and we only discovered it because we were walking. We managed to find some toppled gravestones almost concealed by grasses and ivy and I was bowled over to see the names of some of my ancestors from the 1700s that we had lost the thread of because of changes of spellings, inaccuracies of small village records or whatever. My brother was over the moon when I reported back, he'd been tearing his hair out over these missing links.

It's really nice to feel I've come 'full circle'. It really is a small world. Not explaining it very well but you'll maybe understand what I'm rambling on about.

Karmacat

Lula-Hula wrote: »

I used to leave the sunroof open in summer as my is in a garage at night. Until the day I was driving along and an 8 legs started abseiling down in front of me. I screeched to halt and accosted a burly builder man by the side of the road to remove it for me !

:eek: I would do exactly the same!

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Amazingly, in the 1700s my father's ancestors lived within 5 miles of where I live now, information my brother only unearthed quite recently. I had absolutely no idea of the connection when I moved to this county for a job in the late 1970s. .... We managed to find some toppled gravestones almost concealed by grasses and ivy and I was bowled over to see the names of some of my ancestors from the 1700s that we had lost the thread of because of changes of spellings, inaccuracies of small village records or whatever. My brother was over the moon when I reported back, he'd been tearing his hair out over these missing links.

Thats brilliant :j Its almost "easy" back to 1837 (though its not!) and you can get back into the late 1700s if you're lucky, but even then people moved around much more than we think they did, so then it can rely totally on kismet, as you say.

It's really nice to feel I've come 'full circle'. It really is a small world. Not explaining it very well but you'll maybe understand what I'm rambling on about.

I totally get it! There's a parish church about 10 miles away from where my mum lives now, where my great x 4 grandparents are buried, right by the main path that leads to the church door. I look at that and it kind of leaves me speechless.

Karmacat

I meant to go out really early today, to get back really early so I could be on hand for translation duties for my sister in France. But it was snowing! And since I didn't absolutely *have* to go out (I can do banking on Monday, I have stocks of food) - erm, I didn't :rotfl:

At least the garlic I planted yesterday will have had its cold snap :eek:

So today is still a circling-about-the homestead kind of day - maybe a bit of getting prunings into the bin, maybe a bit of finishing off the biography I'm doing of my Canadian POW, a little bit more scanning. And I must find another recipe for overripe bananas. That sort of day

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Sounds like a very nice day. Hope the snow clears for Monday,

Squirrel

Karmacat

Thanks Squirrel! I've done loads of scanning so I could sit by the phone, so I'm not going to do anything else - I *did* research banana recipes, but I'm not sure I'll use them today. Sister phoned, and from the crazy list of things that have been stolen - tv, yes (very old), but also wellies, trainers, a torch, booze and a lamp - we think they're just young and stupid, basically

So I've just got to relay the news to my mum (its hard making an international call on a mobile to someone who's basically deaf!) and then I think I'm off out for a walk. Snow's gone