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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    I use 123 reg - very basic, but fine for what I need. I just didn't see the domain I didn't want any more - you can set domains to auto expire or auto renew, and this one was set the wrong way! You'll need your own domain and hosting to monetise, I've found out that much - I have three (work, and the two prospective monetised blogs) and they're all at £6.98 each for two years - can't say fairer than that :)

    2.5 hours work today, which is plenty in this heat **faints** at least I've got my little desk fan. The ongoing list till my holiday:
    - tidying
    - weeding
    - paperwork
    - clean up bathroom (which is mostly about mould, Gally will be pleased to hear, its just some bits in the grout)
    - pack :D

    Given that there's several jobs in each of those categories, thats enough :D

    No more bees. Still think its odd. Bees don't freak me the way wasps do, but they just belong outside, amongst the flowers, poor little things. Not building a nest inside :cool:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,884 Forumite
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    I love bees :)

    They serve a vital purpose, they aren't prone to stinging, they produce honey, they are fluffy and are always a sign of summer. We have a huge flowering shrub that is planted along the length of our office building and it is *alive* with busy bees!
  • Karmacat
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    I love that, Ed :j:j:j

    My garden has so many bee-friendly plants, they don't have "lanes", that you see them fly. They fly every whichway, because they're spoilt for choice :)

    There was a whole Egyptology lecture a few years back, all about Ancient Egyptian veneration of the bee :j Its not just cats :D
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Dental check up done and dusted - really tender around the extraction site, apparently I should've been carrying on longer with the salt gargles :o so I've gone back to them.

    Lots of tidying and cleaning being going on, tho not yet in the bathroom :o Thats about it from the list, really, its felt impossible to be productive in this heat. Managed to get some sleep, though, and its cooler today, so I'm going to have something to eat and get down to it :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • ahem_47
    ahem_47 Posts: 97 Forumite
    KC

    GG and I were on one of our 6 mile hikes (all about steps/ Fitbit ya know) when we started talking about her "virtual fiends".

    Now as one who she has had the actual pleasure in meeting and one who always has an encouraging word whenever I butt in you got a mention! And then she asked me to ask you (being not so brave herself, you understand) what had happened to the MOULD? :D. And she does have a point - it is sorted, isn't it?

    I have a question too - not for now though - but if you go to P108 (I think it was) you might get a clue

    Laters xx
  • Karmacat
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    :hello: hello ahem :j

    I know why she's sent you to ask :o she's too kind to want to be possibly thought of as nagging :o she's been so sweet about the whole issue :kisses3:

    Never fear :j its still at 90%, to my shame, but its genuinely earmarked for today. I'm just off to the shops (a cherry stoner, yummy little gifts as pressies for Norfolk rellies, basics like that :D and when I come back, de-moulding is what I'll be doing. Can't be outside weeding on a day like today, so de-moulding it is ...

    A little bit more weeding went well, too, and a bit more mulch put down. That's why I've decided to make a start on cleaning/de-moulding. I'm very chuffed :D it's lovely to *do* one thing and then still eventually have the energy to do something else :j

    Laters :beer: I'm off to look at page 108 :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Oh, *my* page 108 :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    That was done, honest :D two layers. No light shines through :j Haven't done the outside yet :o just pretend I didn't say that. The mould is more important :rotfl:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Ta-da! I realised (before I bought a new one) that I already *have* a cherry stoner - bought during some trip to a Lakeland store, I think, when I wanted to buy something but didn't know what :rotfl:

    Used £2.50 nectar vouchers - oh dear, I've lost track of all that since I changed my sig :o Just entered a voucher comp at the tell sainsbo website by giving feedback on my "visit". They won't be happy :D

    I *did* buy the yummy gifts I wanted tho, so thats good.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Karmacat wrote: »
    Ta-da! I realised (before I bought a new one) that I already *have* a cherry stoner - bought during some trip to a Lakeland store, I think, when I wanted to buy something but didn't know what :rotfl:
    How strange, as I want one as well! Except out here they sell them as olive stoners. Saw one yesterday but was already in the queue when person in front of me bought one.

    On behalf of Mr GG - that's not what he was talking about :rotfl:.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
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    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • Karmacat
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    Olives, I wish, I love fresh olives :) though cherries aren't bad either :rotfl: there are a *lot* of cherry trees round here, and they haven't fruited like this in the time I've been here, so I'm going to try to make some cherry jam :)

    Gally - I've started to clean the bathroom _pale_ :rotfl: it's terrible :D and thats the real reason I haven't done anything recently. The focus on weeding is incidental. Digging up the ground and then mulching is a bleeping site easier :j

    And omigod, page 108 - do you *know* how many things we managed to talk about on that page? Currency jokes, spilling stuff on the floor, weeding, a cash isa from stocks and shares, copywriting, talking to blithering financial companies, more weeding, laminated lists (for those of us in our dotage :D), spreadsheets and records and elance :eek:

    I'm a bit slow on the uptake on these sorts of things, please excuse me and put me out of my misery :rotfl:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
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