Breaking Through, Travelling On

muddywhitechicken

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So glad you decided to keep posting - I love the variety of topics discussed here

Happy staycation!

MWCx

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Karmacat wrote: »

I have done a yougov survey! Up to 4,700 now, its getting interesting - I wonder if they'll stop sending me surveys now I'm so close?

Nice to see you're sounding so upbeat in your latest posts, KC:j

I managed to reach my payout level of £50 at the end of last week:j. The money hasn't arrived yet though, they say up to 3 weeks. If anything the surveys were more plentiful towards the end:). I don't get all that many at the best of times so I was very pleasantly surprised that they didn't dry up completely when redemption level was near. I did notice they have introduced more 25 points ones nowadays. they always used to be at least 50:(

Cheery_Daff

Hello :hello:

Karmacat wrote: »

I do, actually! Didn't you end up in a wheelchair temporarily? :eek::eek::eek: Seriously horrendous

Er, please don't feel too sorry for me - my wheelchair stint only lasted approximately 10 minutes :rotfl: Just while we got from one side of the train station to the other (and still missed the train!) :rotfl: I was very fortunate really, things could have been a whole lot worse, I wasn't out of action for long!

Glad to hear things are organised with the French apartment too

Thought of you today - we've got some kind of Egyptian exhibition coming to our local museum Was going to stick my head in today, but it's not open yet. Something to look forward to in a few weeks!

Goldiegirl

Ouch, hope your back is on the mend now.

You're close on the You Gov - not much further. I'm doing very well at the moment. I got the £50 in July and I'm already on 1325 points. My theory is, the more surveys you do, the more they give you. When I had 2 weeks off in March, it took ages for them to start giving me regular surveys again.

I think it's a free Ancestry weekend again

atypicalblonde

Good Morning KC, wow two dancing smilies in your last post, that's lovely Have a lovely day xx

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Nice to see you're sounding so upbeat in your latest posts, KC:j

Thanks CBC! Now the back is a bit better, its easier to feel happy

I managed to reach my payout level of £50 at the end of last week:j. The money hasn't arrived yet though, they say up to 3 weeks. If anything the surveys were more plentiful towards the end:). I don't get all that many at the best of times so I was very pleasantly surprised that they didn't dry up completely when redemption level was near. I did notice they have introduced more 25 points ones nowadays. they always used to be at least 50:(

As I had another one this morning, also for 50 points, I tend to agree with you

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

:wave:

So glad you decided to keep posting - I love the variety of topics discussed here

Happy staycation!

MWCx

Thanks!

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Hello :hello:

Er, please don't feel too sorry for me - my wheelchair stint only lasted approximately 10 minutes :rotfl: Just while we got from one side of the train station to the other (and still missed the train!) :rotfl: I was very fortunate really, things could have been a whole lot worse, I wasn't out of action for long!

Thats a relief! Good to know :hello: (I do like that smiley, just something about the asymmetry is really appealing :hello:).

Glad to hear things are organised with the French apartment too

I guessed when the exchange rate had peaked, and sent loads more than I needed at the time - its benefited me by about E130 compared to today! I'm resigned to the thing as a whole being a terrible, terrible investment, no good fretting about it.

Thought of you today - we've got some kind of Egyptian exhibition coming to our local museum Was going to stick my head in today, but it's not open yet. Something to look forward to in a few weeks!

Ooh! Yes :jThere's a lot of destinations I fancy, and relatives too, in your neck of the woods for me - something else on the list for After I Retire :j


For today - an agricultural show beckons, my sweet sister is driving me there so I have more energy to actually *be* there. We're very lucky to have it on the doorstep :beer:

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Ouch, hope your back is on the mend now.

Thanks! Must do the exercises this morning.

You're close on the You Gov - not much further. I'm doing very well at the moment. I got the £50 in July and I'm already on 1325 points. My theory is, the more surveys you do, the more they give you. When I had 2 weeks off in March, it took ages for them to start giving me regular surveys again.

Thats certainly an incentive to keep going!

I think it's a free Ancestry weekend again

I'd noticed something about that, something about travel documents? I'd love to know how many times my Irish great great grandfather crossed the Atlantic, he worked on the transatlantic route for a while before emigrating.

atypicalblonde wrote: »

Good Morning KC, wow two dancing smilies in your last post, that's lovely Have a lovely day xx

Hi ATB:hello: Yep, if at all possible I like to put the dancing smilies in, and anything else thats happy - :T:wave:_party_ (dont often use that one) :kisses3::bdaycake::rotfl::D:j not forgetting :coffee:

smallholdingsister

Is the French appt holiday let or long term?

Karmacat

Its a purpose built holiday let, SHS, in this touristy village: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Contamines-Montjoie

I bought it under a French government scheme that discounted VAT, as long as you held it for a certain number of years - those years have not yet passed :cool: so I hold on. Its a number of years yet - even when I've paid the mortgage off, it will really only pay for itself. When I say a bad buy, I'm really not kidding - I'd probably already be retired if I'd stuck to more normal forms of investment :eek:

The agricultural show was great, and one of the photos I took was a stallholder who was making cat-themed leather handbags thats one for the blog

There was an obstacle course for little dogs as well - some of them were a bit scared by the seesaw, but some of them were ecstatic about the whole thing, and ran the whole course barking, practically pulling themselves off the obstacles because their tails were wagging so hard :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I just sat really still when I got back, didn't do anything at all, so I feel okay today. Quiet one now

Karmacat

Ancestry free weekend relates totally to travel documents, so the crew lists of transatlantic shipping are available to me :j:j:j

Turns out my ancestor might really have been born on St Patrick's Day I thought it was a later, anti-English affectation after he emigrated to America!