Breaking Through, Travelling On

edinburgher

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

By manual means ed!!! A sharp knife or grass shears.

Telescopic or short ones? Am prone to sore knees, but it's a temporary thing from decorating (I hope!)

Karmacat

rasputin_thorpedo wrote: »

At 33, I wonder if I will ever feel able to retire.

Well, you're definitely doing the right thing in coming on here - the whole Financial Independence thing is crucial, the younger you are. I'm in the first years of the rise of the age of eligibility for pensions - until I was early 40s, it was 60 **weeps quietly** and heaven knows what it will be by the time you and Ed get to my age.

edinburgher wrote: »

Telescopic or short ones? Am prone to sore knees, but it's a temporary thing from decorating (I hope!)

Knee pads! To keep the spends down, do you have an old neoprene camping mat? Thats what I use in the garden - and I bet your local equivalent of Poundland sell them too.

I haven't managed to do any pruning, but I've been scrubbing and cleaning hardware thats been left in the garden when I haven't quite finished jobs - a lovely old clay flowerpot, jugs, containers, a couple of old pieces of slate that'll get bashed and added to the little slate border - and my patio chairs :j which are now clean enough for a guest to sit on, as well as me

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edinburgher

I bought a cheapo foam knee pad/mat from HB, king's ransom at 69p

Karmacat

Excellent decision there, Ed

I've had a catchup with my lovely sister, and its currently very steady drizzle here, v unpleasant, so no garden work just yet. So I may even be putting some stuff up for sale on Amazon! Wonders never cease

beanielou

Drizzle here too.
Looking forward to the tennis later.

Darpett

On the gardening note, I use an edging tool for the lawn, better for your back and knees. You can get them quite cheap from pretty much any DIY store.

It's a bit time consuming at first but does the job neatly and saves your knees. I am told by a number of friends who have retired that dodgy knees are one of the things that stops them doing more walking etc so maybe I am biased

Karmacat

I've seen those, Darpett - like long handled shears with a 90 degree turn in the blades?

Drizzle stopped, but I'm hungry now and I certainly want to stuff my face after emergency phone calls

Darpett

Those or the half moon ones. Either way they are a bit kinder on your body

Karmacat

Morning all

Week 7 in the countdown :j:j:j

I'm supposed to just have 1.5 hours work today, we'll see how that pans out, I hope thats true.

Otherwise, I really need to get myself in gear and do the stuff on my list. I've been reading rasputin/MvM's diary, and its properly put me to shame so as I've done all my email and weather checks, as well as put the dw on, I'm **stopping** here and getting going on doing stuff. That may mean cleaning the bathroom _pale_

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Karmacat

Sigh ... I never touched the bathroom

I *did* accidentally list a book on Amazon - a duplicate I bought from a charity shop for 99p was up on there for £17.50! Postage will be expensive, as its a big hardback, but I can take the hit for £17.50

Paid my credit card bill, and chucked some money at my savings account :j

And I got the wm on, and the clothes are finally drying on the line, after a lot of rain.

I'm in such a bad temper though, or I was until I came on here. Repeat after me, I am not a rubber duck. I am not a rubber duck.

That'll do, thanks :j Off to the garden soon.