Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

It just shows how widespread it was, that so many of us to be affected fine in the end for me, because I could stay in bed till it felt right to get up

It did make it *really* difficult to settle to doing anything, though, and in the end I went out for a blow to wake up - then immediately filled a binbag with detritus from the front border. Every time I do it, the rubbish at the back of the border becomes more accessible, of course, so the process carries on I'm determined that my border will be accessible to me, so I'll carry on until its not needed any more

misscousinitt

Hi KC

Just popped in to say I've been reading your diary with interest.

Good luck with your retirement plans.

I will be keeping up from now

MCI

Karmacat

Hello MCI :wave: welcome

Yep, it's very nice here :j it's a good crowd though I wasn't on the diary yesterday as I was tidying and decluttering and generally trying to get things straight - thats definitely a weekend thing. Oh, plus working on the foodie birthday for my mum, and a longish walk to stretch the legs.

And YouGov are talking to me again, after a break of weeks, I'm now 20% of the way there to my next voucher. The trick is to do a survey as soon as it appears. And when they stopped appearing, I started them up again by doing a single prize survey - I think it probably trips something in their algorithm.

Really unpleasant day outside right now - that blank greyness to the sky, steady drizzle, cold. Definitely the day to stay inside. I may be making the frugal chocolate brownie recipe I found as well as faffing about with *next* year's tax figures - I realised that I need to do the declaration for 2015-2016 by about June of this year - I certainly don't want to be doing it after I retire, although of course I'll have to do a fairly complicated one until I sell the French apartment.

Hope everyone's going to have a good Sunday, doing chocolate-brownie-equivalent things :j

Karmacat

Chocolate brownies were great and I've been ferreting about on the interweb seeing all the things you can do with aloe vera - lots and lots, apparently, I'm pleased. Tinctures, smoothies, all sorts. And I still haven't repotted mine but now I know they're so adaptable, I definitely will.

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Chocolate brownies were great and I've been ferreting about on the interweb seeing all the things you can do with aloe vera - lots and lots, apparently, I'm pleased. Tinctures, smoothies, all sorts. And I still haven't repotted mine but now I know they're so adaptable, I definitely will.

Be careful about consuming it. Rubbing it in is fine, but read up from "proper" websites about eating it.

Also, it used to be an ingredient for laxatives - make sure that's an intended effect... :rotfl:

misscousinitt

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Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

Be careful about consuming it. Rubbing it in is fine, but read up from "proper" websites about eating it.

Also, it used to be an ingredient for laxatives - make sure that's an intended effect... :rotfl:

thats an awfully good point - I haven't looked at pfaf or webmd yet definitely my bad, as I always give people that very advice myself :D

misscousinitt wrote: »

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Right, another day, another dollar ... done my phone call, so now its cleaning, plus two clients. Erm, thats quite boring ... I'll find a way to spice the day up a bit :beer:

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

... I'll find a way to spice the day up a bit :beer:

Peri-peri sauce???:D

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

And YouGov are talking to me again, after a break of weeks, I'm now 20% of the way there to my next voucher. The trick is to do a survey as soon as it appears. And when they stopped appearing, I started them up again by doing a single prize survey - I think it probably trips something in their algorithm.

You Gov have stopped talking to me recently. Between July to the start of January I'd earned 3300 points, so I was doing really well, But the last month has been dead. Weird

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

Peri-peri sauce???:D

Very appropriate though there wasn't anything in the end, I was too shattered - definitely boring (except, see below, for YouGov rant).

How you doing, RT, you okay? Haven't seen you about for ages ...

Goldiegirl wrote: »

You Gov have stopped talking to me recently. Between July to the start of January I'd earned 3300 points, so I was doing really well, But the last month has been dead. Weird

Its very odd - and freepostcodelottery had an advert for older women to join, as well.

I've just done *another* yougov survey, and gave them "down the banks", as we say in Liverpool - erm, heavy criticism Dreadful table that had to be read two ways at once, and stupid question on red meat that had no option for vegetarians. It was a well paid survey, or I swear, I'd have just shut it down.

Otherwise - I'm now loving Season 3 of Orphan Black - wasn't too sure at first, but I got it on dvd for Christmas, and its great. Too complex to go into now (tea! I must have tea :coffee: ) but lots ofI good things

I wish I was a proper Kondo-er ... I'm not, and I'll never be. But over the past few days, I've got rid of half a dozen books - including a wartime utility copy of Wuthering Heights :eek: from my high school that was being thrown out back then :eek::rotfl: