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Karmacat wrote: »

- the two remaining cards posted :j I think I missed the post, but I upgraded to first class stamps

Bit of a day off for me today, so I'll be pootling about in the garden finishing off clearing for the garlic planting, and not much else :j

I think the last recommended day for posting 2nd class mail is Saturday 19th so you should have been OK;)

After all your work and stress (and losing important things is so stressful:eek:) you deserve to be gentle with yourself today:beer:.

It's odd that whenever OH loses something (which is a frequent event) it's always my fault:rotfl:

edinburgher

Yup, and Monday for 1st class post.

Karmacat

Thank you both I definitely had a gentle day, refused to do anything that was on The List, which meant I *didn't* weed for the garlic, instead I focussed on the front garden border, got yet another bin bag full of weeds up from it. Really starting to see the difference, not only is there more planting space, the workmen I need to hire will have access to the fencepost that needs to be reset in concrete, and I'll be able to weatherproof the fence itself too

So today:
- a bit of a cleaning and tidying marathon - just dust and general rubbish, feels a lot better! Mended my recycling bin, so the cardboard could go out without getting wet (they won't accept it wet) lots of gubbins tidied.

- lots of social phone calls :j can really tell its Christmas :j

- paid credit card bills finally, all good.

- online order to Asda, 27 Dec delivery (Sunday!!!) only cost £1.

- one item on my list today is bagging leafmould - I think I may be about to do that :eek:

- even more horrifyingly, I'm thinking about my frame of reference for 2016 ...

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...I'm thinking about my frame of reference for 2016 ...

Fabulous! Great to hear!

Karmacat

Thanks RT! It's going to be a differently shaped year from anything I've ever done, that's for sure

I *did* manage to bag the leaves - a big, big bag, hurray. Rescued quite a few worms living in there, made sure they got to soil, and gave them lots of leaf cover too.

I have my early Christmas celeb tomorrow with my sister and her kids, so this will be a good weekend.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, glad you're looking forward to a cheery weekend KC! :j

And ooh, a new frame of reference for 2016 sounds intriguing - will this be like some kind of 'statement' or 'intention' or 'word' for the year? I know someone who's adopting a word to focus on for the year - although rather embarrassingly I now can't remember what it is! :$ :rotfl:

Goldiegirl

Hope you are enjoying your early Christmas celebration:beer:

Karmacat

It was lovely, thank you :j

We had lots of wedding talk, as the peeps who're getting married in Scotland next year were there, and my sister was an absolute heroine in fulfilling dietary needs :beer: plus I was pretty ill, and even after that sort of day, she drove me home :kisses3:

Today, it's a catch up and quiet time ... there may also be weeding - soil's still warm, that garlic *will* get planted :j

Ruminating on the next year, deffo - the one word is easy, that's "retirement" I was thinking of a little more detail :rotfl: but I already have a great idea for 2017 - the by-then newly married people will need catsitters, as they have a pair of rescue cats, and by then I'll have recovered enough, and paid enough attention to my mum, to have a couple of weeks here and there as the live-in cat sitter :j I'm looking foward to that already :j

Watty1

Love the plan.
Actually could you do more cat sitting?
(Years ago I had a lovely retired head mistress who used to cat sit my 2 cats. She was great, and used to take my gran out for lunch as a bonus too! She said she liked cat sitting as the animals were usually undemanding and she got to see a lot of places. At the time I had a collection of !!!! Francis novels and she read through the lot!)

Karmacat

Maybe, that's true.... I'd forgotten about it as an income source, to tell the truth, probably because I've been so under the weather. But after I retire, I really do expect to regain my health, so I could do a bit, certainly. No big animals like horses, but small ones like cats, dogs, the occasional hamster that would be lovely

Love what the censor did to the author name you used :rotfl: