Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

earthgirl wrote: »

3 weeks! Farewell messages! Got to feel good KC?

Hi earthgirl! It feels lovely, really, really fantastic :j thank you

Cheery_Daff

Aw, that's lovely that people are sending you farewell messages You've been such an important part of their lives for quite a while in some cases I'd imagine.

Two feet of garden is not to be sniffed at! :j :j :j

Karmacat

That's true, we are, recovering from really bad early trauma can take a long time. People dedicate things to us, write nice things about us on therapy forums, my partner even had a business named after him :eek:

A few times, though, I've met the children, or sometimes just seen pictures, and that's gorgeous

The garden was important too, absolutely! Overgrown box hedge etc all over it, so I couldn't get in there to cut the grass or keep it remotely weed-free, its been a nightmare, and became quite oppressive, actually. It's going to be lovely!

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Karmacat

Morning! All's well at sea

Got to deal with an insect-like situation at the top of the stairwell, right where I can't reach, grrr. No idea how to do it, I'm hoping it will crawl somewhere I *can* reach.

Otherwise, today is about charging the hedgetrimmer lent to me by my sister, and making *very* merry with the hedge where I've been dismantling the holly and rhodendron

I may also check the local blackberry situation :j

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smallholdingsister

Think we need you in our garden, KC.

Glad the meeting went well. Had you made up after "email gate"?

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Got to deal with an insect-like situation at the top of the stairwell, right where I can't reach, grrr. No idea how to do it,

You not got a hose on your hoover?

Goldiegirl

rtandon27 wrote: »

O.K. it is definitely time for an eye test - just sat here for five minutes trying to figure out what the "passing of two flies" was code for! (and every one of those thoughts was a bit off-colour :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:)

When I first read the post back, I read it as 'passing of the flies', and I had typed it in the first place!

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Funny day today - I was exhausted after work, though it went really well, and spent the morning using the washing machine, working on the client files and fetching an Amazon parcel - so the tax papers filing is *still* undone. Lets face it, I really, really don't want to do it, and I can't seem to make myself - prime example of what I've written sparked by Cheery as above - I don't have willpower for every section of my life!

Then the interweb connection went down and I could have easily thrown my toys out of the pram - but the guy was really good, he even found me a £5 a month saving - I've double-covered myself for calls to mobiles, apparently, and thats how much I could save. But there was static on the line, and he wanted to read the new agreement out, and I could hear ominous phrases but not much else. And he won't send me a written copy until I've agreed to it - fat chance! I had to bellow over the static "I don't agree" .... I'm sure I'll go ahead with it, if it's anything approaching what he described before the line static started, but I'm not prepared to agree to a contract verbally if I've no idea at all what its saying ....

Still, the garden was lovely :j

Having recently had my own interweb woes, I feel your pain. We have a long way to go until the internet is as reliable as the other utilities.


I don't like it when they read out a load of conditions on the phone. My mind goes really blank and I have to struggle to stay focussed. There's nothing like having something in writing, whether it's by post or email

ZTD

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Having recently had my own interweb woes, I feel your pain. We have a long way to go until the internet is as reliable as the other utilities.

Yet it's almost becoming a necessity for normal life now. Obviously someone isn't thinking that through...

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I don't like it when they read out a load of conditions on the phone. My mind goes really blank and I have to struggle to stay focussed. There's nothing like having something in writing, whether it's by post or email

Which is why they do it: "Of course we told you over the phone you'd have to sacrifice your first-born to the Turnip Deity of Sweeeeede. Do you not remember?"

Karmacat

smallholdingsister wrote: »

Think we need you in our garden, KC.

Glad the meeting went well. Had you made up after "email gate"?

Thanks SHS - yes, we had, thank you :A I'm afraid he's gone back to his thing of being slightly scared of me, his usual attitude, but I can live with that, even though its a bit unreal.

ZTD wrote: »

You not got a hose on your hoover?

I've kept a hoover for specifically this sort of situation - its very weak but with the nozzle it just about did it - then I dashed to the little copse over the road to release into the wild :beer:

Having recently had my own interweb woes, I feel your pain. We have a long way to go until the internet is as reliable as the other utilities.

I don't like it when they read out a load of conditions on the phone. My mind goes really blank and I have to struggle to stay focussed. There's nothing like having something in writing, whether it's by post or email

You did, didn't you! I don't understand the refusal to send me an email until I'd agreed, I really don't. I think EE still have a shop in my town, I'll sort it there, and make an official complaint if necessary - that sort of refusal gives them *such* a bad rep.



More crisis gardening :rotfl: - SHS, I'm really not sure if you'd want me as your gardener. I didn't do the hedge, I stuck more or less entirely to the border nearest the house, which is mostly alchemilla , oregano, chives, some more dammmm wild strawberries, my lovely lemon balms. And grass! I was clearing a spot for some sage, right by the path onto the grass, but I think it might be too crowded - might be better to have something very low there, I'll have a think. Got to weed in between plants, got to!