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Breaking Through, Travelling On

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  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,474 Forumite
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    So glad to see you're back KC, was wondering where you got to just the other day :)
  • Goldiegirl
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    So good to see you back posting on MSE.

    I was glad to hear you'd had a couple of nice days out recently, that's a real pick-me-up.

    Sounds like you are pacing yourself with your return to normality - very wise, you don't want any relapses.

    Lovely to have you back:)
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  • slowlyfading
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    Glad to see you back :)
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  • gallygirl
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    Glad to see you back :j
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  • Great to see you back in circulation karmacat :D

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  • Karmacat
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    Hello all! Yep, I am pacing myself - I didn't get round all the diaries I wanted to go to yesterday (sorry! some of them are posters up there above this post).

    Today is the really busy day for paid work (busy for a self employed counsellor, which is to say not busy at all in terms of hours!) :)

    However, after saying yesterday that the kitchen seemed cleaner than not, something is definitely **up** in there :( some cleaning needs to be done pronto, but there are still so many candidates :o:eek: the hob, around the edges of the floor, the waste trap in the sink, you know the drill :rotfl: however, while I've been away, I discovered soda crystals are my friend, so I'm going to try them.

    Laterz :D
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Another fan of soda crystals here. They work and best of all are relatively cheap:j:j:j
  • rtandon27
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    :hello:Welcome back darling KC!!!

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    Good to see you :wave:
    Dont overdo it though :naughty:
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  • Karmacat
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    :wave: Hello lovely ones, and a special :kisses: for RT :rotfl:

    Desperately trying not to overdo it, while knowing perfectly well quite how much still has to be done, oops. And I confess, I'm snuffling - the trip up to West London last Saturday may have exposed me to some germlets, but I'm on a gramme of vit c now, and hopefully it will pootle off whence it came.

    Tidying, cleaning flowerpots, planting (yesterday it was a rosemary, the big one I had died last winter). I've got lots of apples to cook today, foraged from near here and also brought back from my sister's property in France. I've already done so much tidying that my kitchen table has re-appeared from under all the carp - now its got to be *kept* clear, so I can use it for the physical design thingummies and general pottering on behalf of the cat website (planning to start in earnest next Monday). And some clients still pay me in cheques and cash, so that all has to go into the *physical* bank every so often :p Its often pleasant to have a potter about the shops when I do that, but today I'll be happy to just avoid a downpour. Again.

    Hope everyone's doing well :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
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