Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

You are sounding chirpy today KC!

Hooray!:j:j:j

Yep, things are coming together :beer:

beanielou wrote: »

You bought the sun :eek: :rotfl:

I did! And thanks to Have I Got News For You, I know that Sun journalists are some of the wittiest and most erudite journalists in London - Paul Merton is full of admiration for their puns, truly

Schoolworker wrote: »

Do you know that the codes have finished in the sun on Monday and people are booking their holiday now so need to do this soonest before all gone. We booked on Sunday for July - this is the 3rd sun holiday we be on.

Ooh! I didn't know that, Schoolworker, no - my sister told me they were on till January 31st?

They've been doing them for years, of course - my sister found out about them when *her* kids were little, they sound brilliant for family holidays. I'm glad to hear you've been going for it too, thank you for popping in

Just found this: https://club950.co.uk/howitworks/ they seem to think it's going on till 31 January too - but its also obvious that they run out, its so popular :eek:

I'd better speak with my sister over the next few days - she's off to France in her rented van on Thursday :eek: thanks for the gee-up, SchoolWorker

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Karmacat

I messed up! I meant to use today's first post as an update, and instead I replaced it, oops ...thats why I'm thanking beanie before she posted ..... distracted, moi?

Thanks beanie! So, the to-do list:

- Sun holidays/sister.
Yep - bro and sis still both interested, we've settled on mid-Wales, and I'm the one who's going to collect the tokens, since as wot they're both out of the country for the next week

- phone my insurance company **again** - their computer's been down for 3 days! Means they can't take my payment! Grrr.
Their ringback finally worked, they just rang me and I paid - that £90 reduction is very handy
- pulled a heavy box out from the understairs cupboard. I have a *lot* of cat ornaments plus a lot of broken picture frames
And more travel postcards, diaries and brochures, including my Florida trip to watch a space shuttle take off and my visit to St Augustine, one of the oldest towns you're ever likely to see - everyone was too poor to redevelop it!
http://citystaug.com/visiting/index.php

They have a rug made from cat hair in the local Weird Museum - it looks like something you could buy today, it's pristine, and they say it's 2,400 years old ... er, no. I've sent a happy, happy email to the museum asking for details, because no matter how old it is, its beautiful.

Right - off to decimate some hedging plants, enough of opening up my Cupboard Under The Stairs - Harry Potter definitely doesn't live here.

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beanielou

Happy sorting and happy chopping!!

Karmacat

Morning all

A lot of the laurel got chopped yesterday in the end - half a dozen twenty foot long trunks, some of them four inches thick, eek. All sawn into manageable lengths for the van next week.

Plus a lot of carp got shoved into the front yard from the broken wooden shed, including the remnants of its roof :eek::rotfl: Some of the stuff, I'd like to be able to bring it into the house, but it needs dousing in bleach or vinegar or something first - will investigate.

Anything electrical (my strimmer and I can just make out my steam cleaner at the end :o:o not touched that yet) will go in the awful brick shed - I was brave enough to open the door, and if you can imagine "police line - do not enter" tape made from spider webs, thats what the shed looks like :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Not much of my stuff in there, and some of it I can pull out with a garden fork or something

Tax. I've done no work on the tax. Argh.

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Karmacat

Long-time online friends on here will know that a few years ago, the pointing on my most exposed wall broke down, and once the wall dried out in late spring, I got it repointed? I never got the internal wall replastered, which I knew I'd have to do once I stopped working, but I thought that would be that.

Turns out I was wrong

As part of the general re-jigging of my life thanks to retiring and then my mum's death, I've finished excavating the understairs cupboard (partly because there's a condensation type mould around the cupboard door not black, but bad enough and there was a box of papers at the back of the cupboard. It had only been packed up as I moved from my previous house, but the mould had spread way inside and there were some lovely hand-drawn, hand-made cards in there too (especially some based on Space: Above And Beyond, if anyone remembers that single-series SF programme ...).

V sad. I've unpacked everything, and anything I can stick in the recycling straight away has already gone. Much, much more will be going. There's no kind way to say this: the **whole** house smells of mould it's horrible!

Looking forward: I'll be much, much more careful about what I store under there, and there won't be much at all before I air it and disinfect it in summer. It's an absolute pain having to air the house so completely when it's so cold outside (nods to the song title ) but needs must.

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Fortune_Smiles

I hate making those unpleasant discoveries. This week it was a large infestation of flour beetles in a half bag of pumpkin seeds :eek: I freeze my flour when I buy it and then keep the bags in air tight containers but the little bugg£r$ still get into the cupboards somehow.

Mould is just as insidious I think but more of a health worry so take care.

Fortune x

Karmacat

That's horrible too, Fortune! This isn't the black mould that can cause such health problems, but it's bad enough. And I've disturbed it now, by moving the box, which is why the house smells so bad!

And my ex-business partner is coming round tomorrow ....

beanielou

Sorry to hear this.
What a pain.

Cheery_Daff

Urgh KC, what a thing to happen! Hope the smell dissipates soon, and I hope you can salvage some of your papers

Must be a week for infestations - I discovered weevils in the dried soup mix yesterday :eek:

rtandon27

Ugh - mould - just the worst! KC - I totally feel for you on that one!:mad::eek::o

The first place we lived in after I arrived in the UK had been cleaned & painted by the landlord to hide a serious problem! Turns out we had a bit of a river running under our ground floor flat & discovered mould had taken over the underside of our brand new sofa when it came time to move out of there! YUCK YUCK YUCK - I now (four rentals later) have a bit of a phobia about keeping everything dry & off the ground! - YUCK YUCK YUCK