Breaking Through, Travelling On

greent

I now burn all of ours in the chiminea - takes far less effort than standing there feeding paper into the shredder/ emptying the shredder/ dealing with any jams - I used to put the shreddings into the compost bin, now I out the ashes
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Karmacat

Thanks for that, greent! If I get on well with it, I'll release the electric shredder into the wild, no need to keep it, that will be great.

Karmacat

Same old same old but today is crunch day: the French tax documents are being uploaded to my accountant's website, and I'm walking into the local town centre to send off the probate docs registered post. And I'm using the last bonusbond voucher £5 worth of shopping

After that - getting as much garbage as I can out of the house, as collection is tomorrow, sweep the floor, air the place, bit of weeding, and then the most thorough hot shower of my life the mould isn't gone yet, but its on the way, I guarantee

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...getting as much garbage as I can out of the house, as collection is tomorrow, sweep the floor, air the place, bit of weeding, and then the most thorough hot shower of my life the mould isn't gone yet, but its on the way, I guarantee

Morning KC - have done the same this morning so far - garbage & recycling out of the house to the bins, windows opened for the fresh air & now closed again - a few stray bits pulled up in the garden & a loooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg hot shower to wash away the grime...

...today is a work from home day - could not face the commute into work!

themadvix

Hi KC, I've read your diary from the beginning over the last couple of weeks - you write in such an engaging way, it's been a lovely and gripping read! Belated congratulations on your retirement and recovery of much of your energy - it must be a huge relief. I was very sorry to hear about your mum too.

I must thank you for the scanning tip - I spent the early part of the diary wondering what you were scanning, until I realised it was pretty much anything on paper! I adopted this at the weekend and scanned loads of my Brownie resources - they're both much more useful on my computer (when I need to copy things), more shareable with other leaders *and* I've got whole shelves back! What a brilliant idea!! Thanks also to CBC, as I signed up with Prolific yesterday (hopefully using her referral link) and am up to £10 already

Will enjoy reading about your passive income streams and exciting retirement - can't wait for the book about the travels and au pairing, sounds great!

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

Morning KC - have done the same this morning so far - garbage & recycling out of the house to the bins, windows opened for the fresh air & now closed again - a few stray bits pulled up in the garden & a loooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg hot shower to wash away the grime...

...today is a work from home day - could not face the commute into work!

Morning :coffee: afternoon now Isn't it lovely to have fresh air gently blowing through the house?

I didn't *quite* do the house cleaning - well, I didn't do any, actually, apart from getting the fresh air in :rotfl: but:
- the French accountant has the papers

- the probate stuff has been sent off (tracked and to be signed for, as secure as it can be)

- Bonusbond £5 voucher used on normal householdy stuff.

- an actual letter actually written and posted too!

- an hour's work in the garden - did the last weeding at the bottom of the garden, dragged some unused (bought) topsoil from the broken shed and chucked it on there - will plant up with herbs later. Turns out that small branches of holly are wonderful deterrents for cats peeing on fresh soil :rotfl: without hurting them (unless they back into it, I suppose :rotfl:).

Karmacat

themadvix wrote: »

Hi KC, I've read your diary from the beginning over the last couple of weeks - you write in such an engaging way, it's been a lovely and gripping read!

Oh my! Thank you, madvix! Thats a big commitment! And thank you for the writing compliment.

Belated congratulations on your retirement and recovery of much of your energy - it must be a huge relief. I was very sorry to hear about your mum too.

It is a relief, you're right - the sad thing is that this first year of retirement was supposed to be devoted to long, regular visits to my mum, to make up for the last few years, when I wasn't able to visit her because of my health. But I suppose all we can say, in the end, is that she wanted to go, it was time. I rewatched a feelgood film yesterday that set me off about her - inevitable that that happens sometimes. I just have to go with it.

I must thank you for the scanning tip - I spent the early part of the diary wondering what you were scanning, until I realised it was pretty much anything on paper!

Exactly that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I adopted this at the weekend and scanned loads of my Brownie resources - they're both much more useful on my computer (when I need to copy things), more shareable with other leaders *and* I've got whole shelves back! What a brilliant idea!! Thanks also to CBC, as I signed up with Prolific yesterday (hopefully using her referral link) and am up to £10 already

Thats great, both things! I'm really chuffed for you! I've come to really dislike loads of paper around - even if it isn't wet, *old* paper has a distinct smell, its a dust gatherer, can be a fire hazard, and just takes up so much *space*. Happy sigh now its gone ....

Temporarily in its place, I have a huge bunch of flowers - I gave Virgin Trains complementary feedback about two members of staff on their Liverpool train, the day my mum died, they were lovely to me. Virgin just thanked me for the feedback by sending me these flowers! They're gorgeous, I shall take lots of pics, and of the note too.

Will enjoy reading about your passive income streams and exciting retirement - can't wait for the book about the travels and au pairing, sounds great!

Thank you! It's so nearly finished, but with all thats happened, it had to go on the back burner, as you know. Today feels quite pivotal, it won't be long before I'm back on it.

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rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...Temporarily in its place, I have a huge bunch of flowers - I gave Virgin Trains complementary feedback about two members of staff on their Liverpool train, the day my mum died, they were lovely to me. Virgin just thanked me for the feedback by sending me these flowers! They're gorgeous, I shall take lots of pics, and of the note too...

How absolutely lovely KC - I've heard good things about Vg travel & staff, most recently from some family members who flew long-haul to tropical climes with a 2 year old! Do post a piccie for us to see, will brighten up this northern grey February to no end!

greent

How lovely that you took the time to give positive feedback to Virgin Trains - I am sure they are far more used to getting complaints! - and also how lovely that they responded with flowers xx

Karmacat

Thanks both! Yes, those two staff members made a big difference to me on that journey, I wanted to do something positive for them.

A piccie! I know where I'll put it/them ... on my old personal blog, I haven't used it for quite a few years now, but its still there, and I don't want to use fb for various complicated extended family reason :eek:

Taking it a bit slowly today, managed to catch up on sleep, and look, its sunny again :j Airing the house again too, and this time I have to start catching up on the cleaning, as per GallyGirl's instructions :rotfl: