Breaking Through, Travelling On

beanielou

Am very confuddled with all the figures :eek: :rotfl:

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Like your thinking with the shed!

Thanks

:j No idea about feasibility Depends whether you can safely make sure it won't get damp I suppose, and that tenants won't be able to get in, and it's not in danger of being broken into? Main problem would be damp but if you sort that, and then you can use it like a little summer house too when you get back, that's cheery

Hadn't thought about damp! The floor in there is poured concrete (I think, its so long since I've been in there). As for security, it would be as secure as any conservatory, they have polycarbonate roofs, after all. The door I'm thinking of would be house-door standard, so it should be fine.

Thanks for that :j

beanielou wrote: »

Am very confuddled with all the figures :eek: :rotfl:

Oh, me too! As I said, I don't really care about understanding the detail, I just know I need more pension savings, and that I've cut down pretty much as low as I can go.

edinburgher

My only concern about the shedhouse would be whether or not your contents insurance would cover a break in. I'm sure most policies cover a broken into shed + garden equipment being nicked, but household valuables being stored for an absent landlord? I'm not so sure...

Karmacat

Hmmm, thats a good point! Bother! Better sort that out before any money changes hands ... I have to do *something* with it, because its deteriorating with the rotten wood and the mortaring (though the weatherward side was included in what was done last year). I could do it and just store ordinary furniture, and sentimental stuff there - anything thats valuable, I could get my brother to drive a van to my mum's, there's a garage there and no car (and thats where I'd be living!). Getting it done also improves the property, and makes it more flexible.

But there's obviously at least two really important issues I hadn't thought about, damp and insurance!!! Thanks to both - anybody else got any ideas

Karmacat

Morning!

The plan for this week:
- personal stuff - a birthday card, a couple of texts, a couple of phone calls. And a cuppa with a certain internet/RL friend on Saturday hopefully
- sign French lease and send it off
- textbroker/elance
- finish editing book, get it published, tell people about it
- get started on matched betting
- carry on clearing the garden: chopping up disintegrating table to take it to the household rubbish collection on Sunday, chop up brambles, get rid of subsoil dumped on top of beds last year by fence repairs, clean flowerpots - all the lovely jobs :eek:

That'll do



ETA - real seeds are open, so I'm diverting from above long enough to put an order in.

Cheery_Daff

Good plans there! :j

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery

I did the real seeds order - broad beans, kale, dwarf bush courgette (I didn't know courgettes normally grew on vines!) and calendula. Then I sent a birthday card, signed the French lease and got it to send (I'll be off to the post office when it reopens after lunch, its a tiny one, so it does that, and I'll collect the cat book I reserved at the charity shop and take them some donations, at the same time).

Finished the textbroker model answer, which crammed in a *lot* and then made a sample pot of cheese sauce for the book's blog, about storecupboard recipes. Took ages - I normally just crumble or grate some cheese directly onto pasta but if you were stuck at home after a snowfall, and you wanted to do stuff and stretch out your supplies, then this would be a good idea. I'd rather poke pins in my eyes, actually but at least I can speak from personal experience now :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I ate perched in front of the laptop reading http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/21/embracing-the-nagging-voice-of-success/
thought it was brilliant :j I get internal voices nagging all the time. So I've finally sent the text thats been hanging over me for **weeks**. To a lovely friend. I think I hate texting, really but sometimes its the only way to go.

Am Accomplishing Things :j

Cheery_Daff

Hooray! :j :j

I love that MMM post

Karmacat

Its great, isn't it - I like the definition of success that "sometimes leads to monetary growth" - in this case, it didn't, it led to maintaining a friendship, even more important

Did the round robin route I had planned - admired the stream-thats-nearly-overflowing, posted two letters (one of which was the new lease, now signed), put some decluttering to the charity shop, and paid for the book I had them put by on Friday about cat portraiture :beer:

Now - a :coffee: as its jolly windy out there, with a bit of a break (I'm going to use the snooze alarm on my mobile ) and then the elance work.

Karmacat

Good grief - well, elance is really something! Filling in your profile seems to take forever - and I need to get my skype account up and running for the better paid ones, thats how they seem to do consultation. Its taken 3 hours to get the profile 80% complete ... and you can test each skill you say you have, and I, of all people, didn't finish the grammar test - I don't know the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs :eek:

I'm sure I know once I see an example of each, but their multi-choice don't quite work like that :rotfl:I'd shoot myself if I could stop laughing ironically