Breaking Through, Travelling On

Suffolk_lass

Hi Karmacat :wave:

I have been reading your diary for a while but waiting for you to post that you have completed your tax return before coming out of lurkdom. I did not want to distract you with all you have going on. Anyway, it feels more honest to tell you I am reading.

A massive well-done for an incredibly productive couple of weeks!

Enjoy the weekend
SL

greent

HAs the widower gone into hiding because there's a significant date coming up - her birthday/ their anniversary/ anniversary of when they met? Can be easier sometimes to disappear and not have to deal with other people when feeling especially blue, even if that's when you shouldn't be doing so - although you will, no doubt - know all of this much better than me from your work :o

Great news re the removal of the laurel and the clearance of the brick shed - brilliant progress, Kc :T xx

Karmacat

Hello Suffolk Lass! That's really sweet of you to think about not distracting me from the tax return. To be honest, I welcome distractions from it ... watching a bee, loading the dishwasher, a text, anything at all

I'd love to have you join in, its a happy little bunch here, but I don't want you to feel forced ... lurkdom is an honourable estate, as Jane Austen didn't say at the end of Pride and Prejudice

Done a few more photographs of stuff thats got a bit mouldy and needs to be thrown - the box has no rhyme or reason at all stuff from my 21st birthday is right next to stuff from a few years ago it must be magical thinking, thats it :rotfl:

Stopping now, so I can get it all out of the house

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greent

Yeay - glad to hear all is well (except in the land of telecoms!) x

Karmacat

ETA - just spoken to the widower - its my telecomms that are to blame two texts of his not received. Happened last week while my sister was in France too :eek: thats a job for February, to try find out whats happening to mobile reception here :mad:

In the meantime, made contact again and had a chat we've set something up for a couple of weeks time, I need a quieter day beforehand if I'm going to see somebody. He's very understanding, and had a fraught day himself yesterday, so I think he's okay with it.

smallholdingsister

Ooh, romance?

earthgirl

So pleased that you managed to get so much done with brother and sister visitting and with the van. Out with the old and in with the new!

beanielou

Excellent news on all the stuff away~~yah :j :j

& on getting through that awesome list~~you put me to shame.

Karmacat

smallholdingsister wrote: »

Ooh, romance?

Good grief no :eek:. On so many levels :rotfl: . His wife only died eight months ago :eek: And he's a mate, always has been - when my Chilean friend published his autobiography, it was this guy that I took along to the book launch.

earthgirl wrote: »

So pleased that you managed to get so much done with brother and sister visitting and with the van. Out with the old and in with the new!

Thanks earthgirl - I was amazed at what we managed :j "We" being my brother - I've literally never seen my sister that tired, even though I could also see her shaking herself out of it and carrying on. And I still have to limit myself to a couple of hours hard work in a day.

beanielou wrote: »

Excellent news on all the stuff away~~yah :j :j

& on getting through that awesome list~~you put me to shame.

Thank you beanie! Don't put yourself down though - you've got a lot of very specific health issues to cope with, unlike my general "bleurgghhhh" ...

Today is about carrying on with tasks, though I'm feeling a bit tired (as above ) and also thinking about the year's plan. I know roughly what I want to do and when, in the first half of the year, the second half has lots of "yes I want to do this" but no idea yet of the order, the priority, or what else might be happening. Because I *know* it won't all get done - maybe I can do it the way I do my to-do lists, and list so much that it gives me a choice, like Cheery and I were saying the other day :rotfl:

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Karmacat

Morning! Yesterday derailed slightly - I discovered that my phone wasn't accepting new texts to me because I hadn't been deleting (for about 5 years, I hasten to add ). Do you know how long it takes to delete texts? :rotfl: A DVD boxset got a good airing, lets put it that way :rotfl:

Another derail, also a positive one, was defrosting the freezer - I couldn't open the top drawer which sounds quite snobbish :rotfl: and it really needed doing. I had a couple of portions of some frozen stewed apple from there, and it didn't kill me, so thats good. Cooked a little portion of red fruit, I'll have that today, and lots of quorn and onions, which also need to be eaten today.

All the blackberries I picked, and the quince from the garden ... they all had to go in the compost bin

Derail happened because I've heard that Iceland aren't taking those Bonus vouchers that Eon gave me? So I need storage space, because I have £25 worth and I'm not splashing that sort of money, I want that on essentials. Might put the dehydrator to early use.

Back later with a ta-da list.