Breaking Through, Travelling On

ZTD

Goldiegirl wrote: »

If Amazon are sending the money from within Europe the IBAN should be sufficent.

It's these people with off-shore bank accounts...

earthgirl

Hi KC, glad you are stamping happily!! I went to your hompage by clicking on your name. Is that the blog as the dates are different (27/4/15)? Thanks...I'd like to follow.

greent

I've got the BIC and IBAn on my statements (I'm still in the dark ages and prefer paper statements for most things - I have to have them on some accts for the accountant anyway, and that's my excuse!!! )


Love the really upbeat tone, Kc
xx

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

If Amazon are sending the money from within Europe the IBAN should be sufficent. It's possible to get the BIC from an Internet search..... But definitely safer to ask your own bank.

Pesky Amazon wanting too much information!

Definitely! You can send money with the sort code and the account number - even to an email address via paypal!

ZTD wrote: »

It's these people with off-shore bank accounts...

Well, to be fair, I *do* have a cheque account in France :D:D

greent wrote: »

I've got the BIC and IBAn on my statements (I'm still in the dark ages and prefer paper statements for most things - I have to have them on some accts for the accountant anyway, and that's my excuse!!! )

I still get paper statements from my bank, greent - I needed them for when I used an accountant. Now that I do my own tax affairs, I could technically go online only, but I give numbers to each banking, so I can reconcile the list of income with the paperwork of income. I can't imagine doing that if it was just a computerised document of any sort _pale_ :whistle: :rotfl:

Love the really upbeat tone, Kc
xx

Aw, thank you greent! I feel like I'm getting my life back, even tho the health struggles are ongoing - 19 more weeks till I retire, I've been able to start writing again, I've committed to staying in this house for as long as I can so the garden is *mine*, not just somewhere I have to care for, I'm starting to imagine how I'll rejig the house once I have the use of the counselling room for myself. Its great :j

Karmacat

earthgirl wrote: »

Hi KC, glad you are stamping happily!!

Thats me :rotfl:

I went to your hompage by clicking on your name. Is that the blog as the dates are different (27/4/15)? Thanks...I'd like to follow.

I run two blogs, earthgirl, and I've caught up on the other one first. I'll pm you the site, I don't broadcast it far and wide like the cat blog, but I'm actually pretty proud of what I write - I've had quite a few journalists wanting to talk to me as the voice of sanity in that area, but I don't want to go full-publicity till I retire, so as not to mix it up for my clients.

Karmacat

Morning! Well, google decided to waste 20 minutes of my time this morning - I switch the computer on before I need it, to let it warm up etc etc etc, and when I sat down to it, Google Chrome had downloaded and changed my home page :eek::eek::eek: I downloaded it earlier this year by accident (and my computer kept crashing after I did), but this one definitely wasn't me :eek: so I uninstalled it, changed the home page back, and then when it started IE to tell me it had uninstalled (I use Firefox), sent them an annoyed little message

Pah!

Anyway, the usual washing machine/dishwasher/supermarket order tiddlypoms, plus:
- 2 hours client work and associated cleaning
- cat blog. I wanted to do it on the Cat House that a mad 19th century carpenter built, but I also want some permissions to use older photographs, so I'm doing Hunger Games part one :cool:
- check the French mortgage money, rent in, more English money out there?
- sweep the decking to get rid of the stuff thats eating into it. I don't want to cut anything more off the top of the laurels right now, as I can see lots of birds flying in and out - I don't think there are nests, but there's definitely food.
- Ooh, check my bank messages to see if they can tell me my BIC number yet.

And breathe :beer: I was sitting sunning myself on the patio yesterday, I may do some more of that today :beer:

ETA - thought I was going to have to change my bank for a minute there - notice online about the closure of my branch. But its the branch I used when I lived in London :rotfl:I still have an old, not quite dormant, account there :rotfl:

Karmacat

- 2 hours client work and associated cleaning
done

- cat blog. I wanted to do it on the Cat House that a mad 19th century carpenter built, but I also want some permissions to use older photographs, so I'm doing Hunger Games part one :cool:
done - Photography people have replied already, agreeing to using the photo I want, plus anything else that takes my fancy! Yay! Haven't actually done the cat blog yet, but I need some down time first.

- check the French mortgage money, rent in, more English money out there?
done - rental money has gone in, no immediate need for English money to be sent out thee, but I'm going to keep my eye on the exchange rate, may send out some more when it suits me

- sweep the decking to get rid of the stuff thats eating into it. I don't want to cut anything more off the top of the laurels right now, as I can see lots of birds flying in and out - I don't think there are nests, but there's definitely food.
not done yet - might do it after 6 or so.

- Ooh, check my bank messages to see if they can tell me my BIC number yet.
done - had a moan at them too the cheek of them confirming I need it. Yes I know I need it, thats why I'm writing to you

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I switch the computer on before I need it, to let it warm up etc etc etc, and when I sat down to it,

That's what I do as well. It'll be 5 years old in November, so it's not the quickest of computers, so I like it to settle down before I use it. Historically, we tended to get a new computer every 5 years, but we won't do that now, it's got plenty of life in it yet, I just have to be patient with it sometimes!

Karmacat wrote: »

I've committed to staying in this house for as long as I can so the garden is *mine*, not just somewhere I have to care for, I'm starting to imagine how I'll rejig the house once I have the use of the counselling room for myself. Its great :j

That's good that you've decided to settle in your house. When we were looking at houses on the web last year, it really brought home how much I love this house and how settled I am. We've got plans to freshen things up a little. When you reclaim the counselling room for yourself, you can move things round a bit - just a few small changes can brighten things up

Karmacat

Thanks Goldie! Yep, considering how little paid upkeep the computer gets, it does very well I'm glad yours does too and mine is 5 years old too.

The house has been trickier: its a cute house in a lot of ways, with good access to local facilities, but it was bought 6 years ago for ease of access by *clients*, and I wrote it off at one stage because the then-not-too-noisy-neighbours were very messy - like living next door to a mix of Del Boy and Steptoe It was a logical purchase, not a loved one.

But when I think of the alternative of moving and all that entails, and maybe still ending up with iffy neighbours but through *several* party walls _pale_ ug, no!

The first week I finish, all the foam and mattresses and pillows is going to the council tip, my sister is driving me there. Sheets etc to the charity shop, unuseable fitted covers to their rag bin. Cleaning! And painting! The kilim will have to be dry cleaned, I did that when I moved here. Then the single bed in the office will be moved into the counselling room, and the desk will be in the alcove in the office, instead of stuck out so I have to sidle around it to reach the airing cupboard. Bliss. Other things re-allocated accordingly :j

I don't even need anything new. In fact, when my niece buys her flat, two dining chairs are leaving (they're from my nan and grandad, having had some careful conservation work on the leather). I love the concept of inheriting furniture, but I don't like the chairs themselves :rotfl:

It's all worked out well in advance

ZTD

Goldiegirl wrote: »

That's what I do as well. It'll be 5 years old in November, so it's not the quickest of computers, so I like it to settle down before I use it. Historically, we tended to get a new computer every 5 years, but we won't do that now, it's got plenty of life in it yet, I just have to be patient with it sometimes!

Max out the RAM, and replace the main disk with a *good* SSD and you'll be surprised how sprightly it'll be.