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Breaking Through, Travelling On

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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Right, an update:

    - wellies - how can I have let my wellies get holes in and not replaced them, in this weather? :p
    I have bought no wellies :shocked: :doh: :wall: what a twit! Long (wonderful, but long) meet, 1.5 hours travelling, not sure where wellies are sold in that town, feet doing the arthritic thing and hurting - I decided to call it a day once I'd done Wilko.

    - rolling pins and hinges, which will cost about £5 (ooh! the voucher yesterday) for a domestic machinery experiment for my end of the world novel. If it works, I'll post it up here, cos its brill :rotfl:
    Yes! I have rolling pins! Lovely solid ones, for £1 each, and brass hinges, 99p for two - there's a possible Heath Robinson contraption in the offing that'll do the job of a mangle - and if not, well, for £3 I have a lifetime supply of rolling pins :rotfl:

    - check out price of cornflakes in Lidl there - I'm working up to a blog post about that :rotfl:
    No bog standard ones there - honey and nut were £1.49 for 500g, compared to 35p at Sainsbo - which were 31p last week, grr.

    - check out the plants/roots/bulbs.
    Wilko had a very nice rosemary for only £3 that I wanted, but with the other stuff I wanted to get, it was a no-no.

    - surgical spirit - I have a yen to make my own hand gel - for one thing, I use it to disinfect the handle of a supermarket trolley, which is said to be dirtier than most toilets. And surgical spirit is the base.
    £1.35 for 200g.

    - a Wilko bread bin - I want to use flour regularly, and the way I have it stored is discouraging me. I don't use bread, but Wilko have pretty bread bins. I want one!
    Ta-da! For the princely sum of £10, I have a bread bin, pretty in cream.

    Erm, I also have photocopier paper (for the printer), labels (for the Amazon sales), some ice cube trays (2 for £1) and a spare can opener (why not?:o).

    And a bus was waiting as I left the shopping centre.

    Oh, and I had to go the post office - I had an Amazon sale, £6 profit, the Potter books that JK Rowling wrote for Comic Relief, about magical beasts, and about quidditch :D.

    Chuffed!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    I have two pairs :o Didn't have any until I visited Wellie Fiend Pippi and spent a fortnight wearing her industrial work ones and LOVED them :D Bought some bright yellow food factory ones for £16 - they're completely indestructible - moulded soles, steel toe caps, resistant to blood and acid (very useful :eek: ). Love them, but they're SO heavy. Bought a cheery turquoise pair with white polka dots in a charity shop for £3 recently so been wearing those quite a lot too :D
    See, I don't know wellie brands - for food factory, a lot of sites about a restaurant in southampton came up at first - then I put "wellies" in the subject matter too :D I remember your icon photo of your wellies, Cheery, they were very lovely, and Pippi, of course, is the ultimate wellie meister :) I'll do better, I promise - the ones that have just died were from Milletts, £16, and okay to look at, but not fun ... I need better than that!
    Have a good day KC, hope it doesn't snow on you!
    Thanks Cheery!

    Do you know, half way through today, it suddenly clicked for me that you had snow!!! How's it been? I'll go onto your thread, of course, to check any update - my day was lovely thanks, the rain had cleared by the time I left my house, and it stayed bluesky the rest of the day. And my meeting was a breath of fresh air, very powerful, and there's more to come.

    Off to find out how peeps are now :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Good afternoon! And its *well* into afternoon, good heavens. Well, most of the morning was cleaning - the floor (dust), the walls (mould - thats why I'm having building work), sinks and toilets (day to dayness), dishwasher (ditto), me (ditto), then a big long piece of client work I do on Wednesdays, then a looooong lunch, and I'm trying to be on the interweb, but my connection keeps cutting out.

    I'm going to do a bit on the cat website, I reckon - I did a little bit on 'what to do when it floods' but its lost in the news blog, so I'm going to do an update on the mainstream Cat Care page. With the way this emergency is continuing, I think it might be helpful.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,102 Forumite
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    I'm sure the perfect wellies are waiting for you to find them somewhere! Quite right not to look when you're not feeling your best.

    We only had a very wet flurry of snow, nothing sticking.

    Good rolling-pin-buying there! :j Can't wait to see what your contraption is. :rotfl: at having a lifetime supply of rolling pins :D
  • Karmacat
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    Yep, I bet they are! I'm off to Brighton on Saturday (Egyptology :) ) so I'll go early, and look there in the morning.

    I can't see me getting to the rolling pins any time soon, but I could have used them this afternoon, for squeezing the sponge I was using to kill the mould thats growing on the inside of the wall where the pointing has more or less collapsed ... yuk!

    Currently having family phone conversations about the summer holibobs :rotfl:which is certainly preferable to talking about black mould and flooding :( And omigod, I'm just listening to the travel news ... poor people! The western line, up to Manchester and Liverpool - trains are pulling up to the nearest station and stopping there, apparently. Glad I'm not travelling today.

    What I *am* doing is pootling about clearing, writing that little article on what to do with your cats in emergencies. And doing ITV competitions, so that I can win and get lots of dosh :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Well, I seem to be gaining on the tidying, which is great, tho I still seem to wake up to a tip every morning - puzzling, but I'm going in the right direction :)

    I worked on the first part of the cat website yesterday evening, as I promised to myself, and tidying ... this morning, online checking, tidying, phone calls and emails - the admin of life, plus the trading, but nothing doing today so far. I'm also discovering that the more you tidy, the more you need to do - in this case, I'm discovering why my dad made a religion out of wiping the windows when we had condensation in winter - because, erm, otherwise you end up with mould :o. At least thats ordinary, not the stuff I've got thats leaking through the single skin wall.

    So today is finish the article on cats during emergencies, do a bit out in the garden that won't submerge me in mud, and with any leftover energy go up into the office to do scanning and putting papers away up there and whatnot. And I *might* have to go out for a walk, there really is blue sky here right now :j
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    <KC boogies in>

    1500 words on how to cope with cats in an emergency!

    <boogies out to have a walk in the sunshine>
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Most excellent boogi-ing!

    Hope the sunshine was good.............the travel on the tv does not look good.
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • mizmir
    mizmir Posts: 3,710 Forumite
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    Yay! Way to go KC and the cats in an emergency article. Very relevant especially when people are having to be evacuated from their flooded homes etc. I really need to think about emergency planning with the dogs - what to do in a fire and so on. Important topic.

    And you have SUNSHINE????!! You lucky person! I thought we were doing well only to get caught out in one hail storm and not to have the gale force winds! :D
  • Karmacat
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    Thanks folks! Yep, we had genuine sunshine, for about 3 hours in total - it was very cold, and before that there were a few deluges, but the yellow thingy in the sky was definitely there. Lovely walk out - to a village on the other side of the local stream (which has risen by about six feet, but is still safe). Very cold tho, so I'm warming up nicely, cuppa tea, lappie and rug on my knee, and the figure skating is on :)

    Pippi, the travel is terrible right now - my niece's journey time into London has more than doubled. I'm really resisting doing anything long distance.

    Miz, I've been following quite a few discussions of pet owners, plus once you start thinking it through, and remembering train journeys when I had cats, it really adds up. I'll pm you.

    I'd really like to be doing some scanning and tidying in the office, but I'm not going up there till its really warmed up. I've got plenty of stuff I can be doing down here :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
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