Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Just popping in v quickly - I'll experiment with upstairs/downstairs Z (see what I did there? ) but taking heat sources etc into account (including what radiators I can switch off), I don't *think* it will work that way, though I know what you mean. And of course the heat circulates through all that piping anyway. Not yet (and my boiler has broken down, oops).

Anyway, off to play on the coast very shortly, its bright sunshine today and as warm as its likely to get. The "lurgy" does seem to be a reaction to the dust in the house and the crap thats falling on me from overhead branches as I prune them.

Hope everyone has a good day

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misscousinitt

Hi KC

So good to have you back.

Good news all round with retirement and health - may all your virus' be small ones (with regards to the sneezing).

Enjoy the trip to the coast - hope it blows all the cobwebs (and dust) away.

MCI x

beanielou

Enjoy the coast
I am going to NB next month

Karmacat

Thanks MCI - we definitely had a good blow, very exposed sea marshes we were exploring. Shattered, but worth it. I think the sore throat etc is change of weather stuff, I'm determined thats what it is.

Beanie! You're going to NB? Thats lovely news, I'm really pleased for you. Only sorry I couldn't get the right house photographed for you in May. I really liked the place, we all did.

Today, I *have* to stay home and tidy and clean. Boring but true, as I'm starting to not be able to use the place its so cluttered. Dishwasher's on, thats a start, now its the rubbish and recycling *then* the cleaning. Sigh.

I'm also considering getting a tv licence for a few months. Just while Bake Off and Strictly are on, and before my comfy setup in the Cosy Room materialises

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Sorry about the snuffles, KC, but it sounds as if you're having a good time regardless:T.


How lovely to live near your sister and both be retired. Sounds like the recipe for some well-earned fun:beer:

Karmacat

It is, CBC, it really is

Time is a bit tight right now - she's accepted an offer on her French house, which was only ever viable whilst her husband was alive, and there's a lot of to-ing and fro-ing involved in that, including me going up to Merseyside in November to look after mum while our brother helps with the moving things back to England. We're just glad there are options that are workable for everyone concerned.

Dishwasher's done.
Rubbish is out, tidying and recycling started.

misscousinitt

Good luck with your cleaning KC.

I know it sounds strange, but can't wait to give our house a deep clean once the kitchen has finished and the dust has settled!

MCI

Karmacat

Actually, I completely understand that statement, especially considering the amount of building work you've had done

Paper recycling is being amassed - its the only way to put it :rotfl: I put like with like, as I try to recycle *all* paper, not just newspapers and whatnot. Other recycling all in the right bin for tomorrow. Tidying is horrendous - this is what happens if you have one person in a lot of space for one person, with not enough time devoted to the admin of living :rotfl: everywhere has bits on the floor - French jam, yum, a thingy to go on the facebook selling page, goodbye, the papers for the trainline complaint I was going to make, on and on and on ... cleaning not yet started

Digital tidying too - decided not to do the tv licence thing just until Christmas - looking at the tv forum on here, I have it really easy with TVL, they write to me once every two years and thats that, no harrassment, nothing. I don't want to flag myself up on their system! So I'll work at the Cosy Room, plus find that second router I think I have to make things easier downstairs too. Decluttered the HDD on my DVD recorder in the process

I'm nearly at the stage where I have to start cleaning :eek::eek::eek:

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Karmacat

Victory! The whole of upstairs is really quite different - lots of tidying, shredding and sweeping done. Each window still needs a good clean, but there's loads of difference now. Rubbish *and* recycling all in the right bins.

Another victory! I experimented during the evening with watching an older episode of Bake Off via youtube, while I was faffing with papers. And the connection was definitely good enough, I'm very pleased. Makes it more important than ever to get that 2nd router downstairs, and/or the armchair up in the Cosy Room.

Woke up at 4.30 this morning so I've already swept the kitchen and checked emails and whatnot, plus started to catch up on writing (phone notes about the European Summer autobiog).

So now, it's about doing the same to the rest of downstairs - a lot of tidying already done, as well as the porch and the kitchen, so its the bathroom and living room. Awful, both of them!

Cheery_Daff

Wow, sounds like you're making great progress! :j :j slightly less "wow" about waking at 4.30 though. Hope you manage to squeeze in a nap later.

Thought of you this morning, I think you once said something about it being the last 5% of a job that was the hardest to get round to (or something, that's what stuck in my head but you may have said something else!) I've been putting off the last of the bedroom painting cos it involves going up a ladder but today is the day! I WILL finish it! (although it will need two coats and I can't do the next til Sunday but even so...)

Have a restful day!