Breaking Through, Travelling On

slowlyfading

Please tell me you're making apple crumble with some of your apples take it easy today

mizmir

So glad you are back - have missed you! Do look after yourself and listen to your body - overdoing it is not good - no matter how much needs doing!

Karmacat

Good afternoon

slowlyfading wrote: »

Please tell me you're making apple crumble with some of your apples take it easy today

I've stewed most of them - haven't made the crumble my main oven takes so ridiculously long to heat up, I use it as a cupboard these days, and I haven't yet learned how to use my halogen one - that takes too much brain power. I'm a baaad person

mizmir wrote: »

So glad you are back - have missed you! Do look after yourself and listen to your body - overdoing it is not good - no matter how much needs doing!

Hiya!!! Missed you too - and you know what, thats so true - no matter how much something needs doing, its no good if you haven't got the energy. One reason this lurgy took so long is that just after it hit, the builders were due to start on repointing my weather-ward wall. The mortar had completely crumbled away, exposing the cavity insulation, in about half a dozen places, it was horrendous, the inner wall was getting soaked. But it really set me back. At least its done now, and its very beautiful!

I've done the banking, had a good rest at lunchtime, and I've just relisted about a dozen things on Amazon - there's about the same again to do, plus a few odd things (like the little drawstring bag my phone came in, or some collectible cards that M&S were giving away?). There are also millions of magazines from way back that might sell. I'd like to sell it all, but it really depends how much time it takes - I'd rather do the setup for the cat website, because that was supposed to be done in August and, erm, it hasn't :eek:

I do enjoy mse smilies :rotfl:

Karmacat

Morning campers

More planting (chives) weeding, and flowerpot washing went on yesterday - there were a *lot* of needy flowerpots sitting on the floor in the understairs bit, oops. All clean now

Talking of weeding - mostly wild strawberries, which send runners out so frequently that the plants end up literally an inch apart - no good for me, so they're being decimated. However, I might plant them into a separate patch - I've been reading about strawberry leaf tea, which is good for joint inflammation and arthritis, apparently - though one website says the leaves have to be either completely fresh, or dried, because strawverries belong to that cyanide-related family, and they express it by letting it out through their leaf pores when they're under attack (like being picked!).

I was going to Egyptology today, but found an email from late-ish yesterday from my sister, so I'm going seaside-pootling with her instead - much nicer and to an area I don't often go to.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend :T

Karmacat

Afternoon all

Windy day at Bexhill, the seaside-of-choice yesterday - the old pavilion there looks like a starship, and the prom shelters look like they'd grace CAT in Wales very easily. Plus I got more broken oyster shells to crush and sprinkle in the garden as a soil improvement - I love doing that - crab shells, sea shells, egg shells, I don't mind

I got very tired, though, so no more planting has been done - I'm off for a walk in a mo, just to get some fresh air for today, but I've also been looking at flats in Bexhill - having income from the money currently invested in the house I live in, without having a lodger *and* remaining in the south of England. Burgess Hill is something of a possibility, but in Bexhill, you're in walking distance of the sea :j:j:j and I grew up near the sea.

rtandon27

:wave:glad to hear you had a lovely seaside day!

Goldiegirl

I spent various childhood holidays on the stretch of coast between Camber and Eastbourne, so Bexhill is known to me, although I haven't been down there for many years.


I like being within easy reach of the coast. The sea has so many different moods depending on the time or year and the weather, it can be different every time you go.


The Kent coast is very accessible by train from here. In fact, only today, we were talking about going to Whitstable for the day, hopefully in the next couple of weeks

Pippilongstocking

Waves. Just catching up.

Have a kiss and a hug sweetie lovely to *see* you x

Karmacat

Morning, lovely peeps :hello:

GG, I know someone in RL who lives in Sittingbourne, so not a million miles away - beautiful, beautiful area

RT and Pipster - hi there!

I admit, I was footling *again* on rightmove, and an investment property in Burgess Hill looks a better bet, simply because there's fewer properties and higher income - tho higher prices too, of course. Its more or less a dormitory town for Brighton, as well as London, so more options for renters there, rather than Bexhill. All these "Bs" :rotfl: very confusing

Anyway, no paid work today - I try to put paid work into four days now, not five, and I feel hard done by when I don't achieve that and I've already got post it notes up on the fridge door for the structure for online sales ... I need to do some more planting in the garden ... and I'll do any surveys that come my way. Plus writing - whether an ebook to sell or articles on the website about what I'll be selling.

DedicatedDFW

Hey KC

so good to have you back lovely :j Many wise word have been said i see about not pushing yourself too much and i see you've made some great choices - such as going to the seaside :T I always want a bag of chips when i go

What is this interesting news i spy re. a possible seaside property?

Thank you for posting on my thread i see we are both focusing on our health i will be going back to the docs at the end of the month and will then await further results but expect they'll come back fine - as i'm generally a positive bean

And great to see you are writing too :T

I've enjoyed reading about the structure to your days - great plan to have 3 days off work