Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

:wave:Morning (just) :j

Good grief, I haven't posted on my diary since Thursday! Run, Chicken Little, run, the sky is falling :rotfl:

I worked really hard on that 1500 word draft, got it checked by a few people, including Mizmir :kisses3: and now its up, so I'll start sending the linkie to people who've said they want to see it. I don't think I should post it on the thread, thats not appropriate, even though there's nothing for sale except the Amazon shop with its existing stuff. If anyone else wants to see, especially the outline for emergency evacuation with animals, pm me.

Anyway, I was *shattered* the last few days, and my heating stopped working (the batteries ran down on the thermostat, I didn't charge them enough last time) which is maybe why I didn't post I went to Egyptology at the last moment, and it was really interesting - the alabaster quarries at Hatnub, in the desert just near where Tutankamun grew up. But these quarries are four thousand years old! Gorgeous stuff came out of there, and the graffiti are something else to see and of course its being studied, for the first time since 1927, by Liverpool University :j:j:j

Felt lots better when I got back, but I want to build up my strength a bit, so nothing too strenuous today. There's sunshine, and the heating is working again, so I'm good Pottering in the garden, scanning for a personal blog about my Toronto visit for the Mars Society (to prove to my nephews I was there :rotfl:) that'll be quite fun :j

DedicatedDFW

Hey KC,

Take it easy if you need to hon Although with you powering through your 1500 words for the website i was half minded to ask you to help me with my assignment

I seem to have missed your posts from in the week when i was without internet connection. I do think tidying up can be a process of things seeming worse before they get better - so hopefully it is all going in the right direction

I've got rid of another 11 items today - some for bay of e and some for clothes recycling i need to find a couple of extra bits to list for sale today if i can as well

I have not forgotten our writing - hopefully in summer / after my course has ended we can have virtua' meet ups and spur each other on with stuff to work on I will message you after i have completed this assignment anyway

Karmacat

Hi DD

A virtual meetup a little while in the future sounds great - I can't bring myself to do anything much today, even though I know exactly what I want to write. That whole idea of "just sit down and write" works well, if you're just writing, but as I expect you've found yourself, if you want to publish your words, in however small a way, there has to be a certain quality to them. I want to build a viable website and continue the novel, you want to do your course and continue your novel - its a tricky balance!

Anyway, I think I *am* going to get into the garden soon, I'll give myself another ten minutes on here, then get changed and do a little bit outside. I *will* have a useable patio, and a garden where plants can grow and fruit

edinburgher

Your Egyptology sounds fascinating. I've never really been that much into history (odd, as the child of two archaeologists!) There was a fascinating documentary 'Lost Kingdoms of South America' on BBC4 that really got me thinking about some of the achievements we humans have found time for over the millennia

It makes me wonder whether anyone will know what the internet was in 1000 years!

Karmacat

Hi Edinburgher! I wonder if you're not into it because you overdosed as a child? that certainly happened to my brother, he refused to go sightseeing round churches and stately homes and whatnot when he was about 14, poor thing. I love it - my attitude has changed a bit, I'm not always so interested in the detail, but I do love it.

Some Egyptian history is still about pharoahs and tombs and temples, of course, but a lot more is about the workmen and their families, who actually built all that showy stuff - at Amarna, the village that housed the people who built Tutankamun's father's new town, they found a little "ostracon", a scrap of limestone, with writing on it (they've found thousands) - but this one specifically proves that even in 1300 BC, working men and women could both read and write - it was from a wife to her husband, telling him to bring more rice and beans when he'd finished his working week.

I'll stop now :o:o

I haven't done the sending things out yet - really needed to laze about ... though I have been looking at websites and forums to figure out how to publicise. I think I have to start a facebook page, just to make sure that when I post a new bit up, it has somewhere cat-like to go to on facebook. Not sure if that makes sense. Another cup of tea and my bed, I think

mizmir

Morning Karma - how are you doing this morning? Hope you had a good restful night - sounds like you needed it! Your cat site is coming together really well - will be a fabulous resource - a Facebook page to link to it is a great idea - that has worked really well for me with my business page.

Will drop by a bit later - need to get my skates on to get out to Aldi and get back for a delivery later!

Karmacat

Morning! Thanks for popping by, and your kind comments on the website I've just sat down properly at the lappie.

I *did* have a good sleep, ta muchly, but an old pain has come back to haunt me - I was diagnosed with a "pleurisy-like cough/hernia/arthritis in a rib" a few years ago, after much examination, and I don't have the cough, but I do have the pain ... just a single point on a single rib. Its been examined in all sorts of ways. Just like the doctors, I'm not sure which it is, but it bleeping hurts ah well - as I say to my mother, none of its life threatening.

So, today, I have achieved (I need this!):
- my scheduled phone call
- the builder has brought his son around, who'll be doing the work - son is thankfully a paid up member of the 21st century (its very hard to remember to say "Mr Builder" in your own home, it is for me anyway, nobody gets called full title any more in my world!).
- almost an hour's quick tidying and cleaning before the builder arrived I may as well accept that I actually need a maid to clear up behind me. I'd better make my millions, hadn't I :rotfl:

Paid work at 2pm, so today:
- clean the public bits of the house.
- scanning - partly so I can chuck stuff out, partly for a map to be used tomorrow - off to London to the Turner exhibition with my sister (her half term!).
- along with chucking out - shredding. Six year old accounts can now be safely thrown out. My little shredder can only operate for 2 minutes every 20 minutes, so this takes a while :rotfl:
- bit more clearing in the garden would be nice, but I can't afford to tire myself, if I'm spending the day in London tomorrow.
- ditto with the writing - but I have a great post brewing up on Doris Lessing - between her book about cats, and an interview programme that was made after she won the Nobel prize, I've got some stuff thats a lot of fun. To me, anyway

Cheery_Daff

I love that note from wife to husband! 'remember to pick up rice and beans' - so *ordinary*

Sounds like lots of exciting and interesting things going on for you at the minute! :j

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

I love that note from wife to husband! 'remember to pick up rice and beans' - so *ordinary*

Exactly :j its wonderful.

Sounds like lots of exciting and interesting things going on for you at the minute! :j

There are, you're right :j even the public transport battles on my railway line might be over by tomorrow, so it'll be comparatively easy to get to the Turner thing, at Greenwich. I've only been to Greenwich a few times, so I'm *really* looking forward to that

Full ta-da list:
- early phone call
- builder's visit
- an hour's tidying
- cleaned public bits of the house
- paid work
- Doris Lessing post written.

Am now in my office, full of pasta and cups of tea, which means I can connect to my scanner, with no fear of spilling *more* tea over it and have at the scanning

Pippilongstocking

Hows the scanning going?

Sounds like life's full n at the moment but the pace suits you?

Off to take a scamp at your blog :-)

Hope you're smiling as much in life as you are on here :-) RG is away so I've better chance of catching up in my virtual lovely life :-)

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