Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Ellidee wrote: »

Someone I was at school with went out with George Best a couple if times and said he was 'A huge disappointment' :shocked::shocked:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:there are so many levels to that, levels that I'm not going to on a public board excellent! I'm quite sure that George's partners didn't enjoy things as much as George did, though, "unaware" is probably the kindest thing to be said

Cheery, just seen your post - thank you and its true, you know ... all of these sorts of decisions were unknown, for family or friends, until the last 10 - 15 years, and there's so much information to take on, its natural that some of the decisions aren't great. We do the best we can, really. Thank you for prompting a reminder of that :kisses3:

Right. Off to work on the French lease.

xxx

Karmacat

I *did* pop off, but into the garden, clearing dead grass so I can chuck more leaf mulch and bark chippings on the soil - and as a result, I made a frog temporarily homeless :o:o quite a bit one too! He can't stay where he was, right by a bit of decking at the bottom of the garden, but the other, shaded side is much more appropriate, and thats where he hopped. I washed out a big plant saucer, and put it there, with bricks in it for him to sit on, and big bits of slate on a slant, so any little insects that fall in can crawl out.

Took a walk then, as usual, to encourage my body to remember how to stand upright and started sorting the French purchase papers. Woe is me, evil days are come upon us, the apocalypse looms, all that sort of thing, dontcha know :D:D So I'm sat here with the lease itself, and the free Collins Online dictionary for the odd word, and translating and writing it down, this time.

The object is to see what I signed up to, exactly : I can tell already that this business of "tell us what you want by 15 March" is hokum, the 9 years lease, the legal minimum, is up on 15 December this year. Still quite a way away! Tho obviously, I need to make a decision well before that. A forum for owners has now approved my application to join (only now! prat!) and I'll just keep working on this, and on communicating with anyone I can, until its sorted.

I must say, I didn't think I'd ever be in this situation when I took it out. But I'm also having fantasies about living there for a while, when I first retire - its a holiday village, after all, summer and winter. We'll see.

Sorry for writing it all out in such detail - but thats what these diaries are partly for, to keep track of these things. Onwards and upwards (or in my case downwards, so I can loll about in the bathroom ).

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

I *did* pop off, but into the garden, clearing dead grass so I can chuck more leaf mulch and bark chippings on the soil - and as a result, I made a frog temporarily homeless :o:o quite a bit one too! He can't stay where he was, right by a bit of decking at the bottom of the garden, but the other, shaded side is much more appropriate, and thats where he hopped. I washed out a big plant saucer, and put it there, with bricks in it for him to sit on, and big bits of slate on a slant, so any little insects that fall in can crawl out.

Remind me what frogs eat again...

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

When I've come through it, and I'm a multimillionaire sitting in my pleasant little tax haven with a mai tai, or whatever the fashionable drink-du-jour is, I shall fly you out there on a private plane, you know :kisses3: just for this post, let alone all the others over the years.

You're too kind... :kisses3:

ZTD

Ellidee wrote: »

Someone I was at school with went out with George Best a couple if times and said he was 'A huge disappointment' :shocked::shocked:

At least he wasn't a small disappointment....

beanielou

Hindsight is such a great thing.
But we make our decisions based on the information we have at a particular time.
Such is life.

beanielou

ZTD wrote: »

At least he wasn't a small disappointment....

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DedicatedDFW

Hey KC,

Wonderful post from ZTD as usual

As Cheery says ((hugs)) chuck. It is hard though x

Hope you have something nice planned this weekend

Cheery_Daff

Excellent work on figuring out the French paperwork Doesn't sound easy at all, but well worth doing! :j

Also - as for making the frog temporarily homeless - I did that with one the other week and felt momentarily guilty, but by the time I'd made it a new makeshift shelter, it had hopped off and found its own :rotfl: You may know I have a small silver frog on a chain around my neck (a present from Mr Cheery) - I read somewhere they are sometimes seen as 'faciliators of the miraculous', and while I don't believe everything I read, I do like the sentiment So I reckon your frog will probably be alright

Karmacat

Thank you, you lovely peeps! Especially on the frog :rotfl: and loving that it might be "a facilitator of the miraculous" - wonderful! I have frog stud earrings somewhere, must see if I can find them and clean them up, that will be a reminder :j

Zoomed out the house first thing yesterday, to a 3 hour seminar on the dos and don'ts of trauma work - very good, in fact brilliant, but as I whispered to someone at the end, I'm very unsure about listening to *everything* someone says when they're so didactic about something so difficult to work with. I've heard her stories before about interrupting clients and refusing to let them say something until a certain stage in the work, and it does make me wonder. But an awful lot of the other stuff she says *is* good, and kind of codifies some of the good practice, so there we are.

And there was a certain amount of tea-drinking going on, then and later :j and window shopping :j and actual shopping :j (washing line gear from Wilko :rotfl:) plus quite a lot of putting-my-feet-up :beer:

Still not going to do very much today - I'm off out this evening, for one of my games evenings, which is unusual these days in that everyone's well, and not suffering from lurgies