Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Hello Cheery! They are, aren't they ... I'm loving the countdown

I've had to play work tetris this week, and its finally resolved - I have to keep at least one day completely clear, can only cope with a 4 day week now, and I've still got that. And the 4th day is a phone session only, so thats fine, no faffing about with the therapy room.

Yesterday was a **faffy** day - I hadn't done any sort of to-do list, and I really wish I had, because I did one this morning, and I can see what I *should* have been doing yesterday Even lodging the online refund claim with Asda would have helped ... anyway, here's today's:
- Asda refund
- sensitive letter (I drafted it yesterday)
- bloggiting
- got to do the French direct debit thing, even online its still much more complicated than in the UK. Such is life.
- Adsense? Will my brain take it? I'd like it to, because I really need to get it done, but I doubt I'll do both bloggiting and Adsense.
- scanning - helps the decluttering, and its nice and easy
- bleep, I swore to myself I'd experiment with some dehydrating today, got to get that done *now* because it takes forever. I may be gone some time :D:D

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...I'd experiment with some dehydrating today, got to get that done *now* because it takes forever. I may be gone some time :D:D

KC - you bought a dehydrator?!? - how did I miss that - a new gadget!:j:j:j

Karmacat

I did, RT, I did - for ages, I was planning on doing a DIY version, I had the tins I'd cleaned and cut the bottoms off, as well as the tops. And then I had a further bit of research about *where* in the world that sort of DIY solar works. Surprise surprise, its not the UK. Or Canada. New Mexico, sub tropical Australia, fine, but not the UK

So I scrubbed that and bought a teeny weeny Westfalia for £30. The thinking is that it gives me a way of preserving the harvest (even the harvest from the supermarket ) without using tons of sugar *or* tons of vinegar. Sugar is empty calories and my teeth, tastebuds and digestion don't really like it, and vinegar is bad for my arthritis if I have more than the occasional helping of pickle. Freezing - my freezer has kept fruit picked in October pretty well, but I've had to throw veg out. So dehydrating it is.

Right now, I can tell you - I'm very tempted to wear swimming goggles next time I dehydrate onions :eek::eek::eek: though my sinuses needed draining anyway

Verbatim

Sounds like a bit of a trial! Let us know how it goes with goggles next time. I can just picture the scene...

Karmacat

Its a good picture, innit

Hello Verbatim, by the way :wave:

The dehydrator is still merrily chugging away - its 75w or something tiny, takes about ten hours, I haven't even looked at things to change around the trays yet, which is apparently recommended.

Really bad weather here rain, rain and more rain. Part of me would like to do a bit more pruning, but the majority of me would like to avoid getting soaked for 45 mins, so I think I'll let it go.

Still, I think I'll try and tick a few more things off the list - Asda refund and sensitive letter, here I come

rtandon27

I feel a D!sney song coming on...

Verbatim

Definitely stay dry. I've done a little stuffing of the garden prunings into the only collection bag we have which has hardly dented the pile. Will ask my neighbour if I can borrow hers before collection day.

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

I feel a D!sney song coming on...

Ooh! Well, if anything I've written or done reminds you of that, I'm jolly happy :j:j:j "cold never bothered m:beer:e anyway" and building my own palace with a wave of my hand, yep, I'm up for that

Verbatim wrote: »

Definitely stay dry. I've done a little stuffing of the garden prunings into the only collection bag we have which has hardly dented the pile. Will ask my neighbour if I can borrow hers before collection day.

Good stuff! I've wondered about doing that, there are a few people who use green bins round here - I'm not going to pay £60 or so for that, though, which is what they charge I compost what I can, and let the rest go, I'm afraid. I did some on Monday.

In France, my sister has what's called a fire pit by the locals - its a pit and you chuck your grass clippings and prunings in there until its as high as it is deep, and then, um, you set fire to it ... your branches, OTOH, are precious, as you add them to the log pile, stored in the lee of one of your ruined farm outbuildings ... its so close geographically, but its a different way of life out there, I tell you

Nearly the weekend! Enjoyment! Leisure! Lets go




Erm, I've been doing the first draft of a bloggit - must write out the sensitive letter :o:o I should give that capital letters to show a certain sense of irony :rotfl:

misscousinitt

Happy weekend KC...

MCI x

Karmacat

Thanks MCI - got up quite late for me, eventually made it into town to do my banking, and found out my 99p store was closing - apparently its reopening as a poundland, which I think might be better, seems to have better deals - and now I've recovered I'm having a look at t'interweb while I do a bit of scanning