Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Uh oh ... I'm not getting in the middle of that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:science fiction is tres important, n'est-ce pas?

From the sublime to the mse, it rained early this morning, no watering today :j so my garden energy can be spent planting up the space I cleared yesterday. Big long piece of work today, but my next has cancelled, so I've got time to do my cat-and-writing stuff. **must** pay my credit cards today - I have an extra one to pay food bills, because it gave me double nectar points for two years, which was fun, but with all the bank problems the last few years, I keep both going and pay off in full each month like I used to, because one is Visa and the other is Mastercard.

Ooh, and I have serious mojo to work on ebay - the 20 free items a month don't need to be priced at 99p to start any more, do they? If they do, it'll be gumtree for this lot, because its posh stuff that my sister wanted rid of.

While I'm there, I might look for that first series of Doomwatch

Karmacat

Note to self: on Friday I have a chance to investigate irregular work helping edit theses for students who have English as a second language.

Those South African links really help, sometimes

rtandon27

edinburgher wrote: »

If you've just given away a spoiler you're for it

:rotfl::rotfl:Not unless you are into timetravel - he's stuck in 40 years ago!:rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat wrote: »

...Uh oh ... I'm not getting in the middle of that :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:science fiction is tres important, n'est-ce pas?...

Middle? Methinks this is actually between the two of you - I was watching Sesame Street at the time!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

On a more serious note - thanks for the info about Bay of E - didn't realize that they no longer had to start at 99p! Our clearout of mum's house has a few bits that might be worth selling rather than donating so will investigate further!

Karmacat

Aw, RT, your OH is spot on - though its very sweet to think of you watching Sesame Street, while we were watching DoomWatch with our respective parents :rotfl: No, I'm afraid I was referring to you and edinburgher, he's the one thats mentioning spoilers

How is your OH? House clearing can keep you busy and all that, but ....

Anyway, bay of e - I *think* thats how it is, it better be, but thats just something I've picked up in the ether, so to speak - I need actual research After the paid work I've had today, believe me, bay of e research will be a pleasure.

Goldiegirl

The first series of Survivors was essential viewing - it was a highlight of my week!
I vaguely remember Doomwatch, but I think it was a couple of years earlier than Survivors, so I wouldn't have been quite so into that sort of programme.

Karmacat

OMG - a bit late in the day, but I was paying that little Mastercard bill (its due in 2 days), and noticed once *again* that the Regular Saver had finished, and the dosh had been transferred into a Flex Saver. But this time I checked the interest rate. This is HSBC. Horrendous Slimy Banking ... erm .... Castanets. You get the picture. The rate of interest on this **saver** account is 0.05%. Per annum! So I sent it on its way to my instant access saver, which earns, wait for it, twenty times more interest ... yes, 1% :eek::rotfl: really, you have to laugh, or you'd cry.

Must get to grips with my financial admin, haven't done any since spring, which is why this was hanging about. Not done ebay either, or even finished the cat stencils, I'm making notes for the Getting Home book.

Off now to plant chives ...

Karmacat

Hurray, planted the chives, and a few sticks/dead branches are protecting them from cats thinking the area's good for a scratch.

Now, in honour of DDFW, here's a bit of an update: workwise, though it keeps *some* pennies coming in, not much is going on - which is why I'm constantly writing about the cat website and the book. We'll see what they bring eventually. In the meantime, I have my own roof over my head, savings, the beginnings of a pension, and an investment property (which has lost me tens of thousands of pounds, but we'll try and keep this positive :rotfl:

I wish I was batch cooking like DDFW, but I'm not - I have to learn how to use my halogen oven, and I'm not getting that done. However, I'm still doing beans in the slow cooker, and I've recently started doing not-chappati not-oatcakes in the frying pan, so some stocks are being rotated, anyway

And just yesterday I hunted out the really posh stuff my sister in law gives me, so I can do the polish-and-cleanse routine - my skin isn't good, considering its the beginning of autumn, not the end of winter :eek: must do better.

Not done my tax return yet, unlike DDFW, but I've just realised that actually I can review ISAs and suchlike when I do - its finding the right time that partly makes that so difficult, so while the papers are out, its a good plan to do the review as well.

Must list on ebay soon - will do the pictures today, and download to the computer.

Supermarket offers and general shopping - I'm brilliant :rotfl:

sorry but I am I had a moan at Sainsbo because they sent me a £10 off voucher where I had to spend over £100 (single person, blah blah). So then they sent me four vouchers that were each £10 off a £50 spend, with free delivery - I thought my ship had come in :rotfl: so I stocked up like crazy.

Decluttering is going well - tidying takes time, and isn't helped by storing ebay/amazon stuff, because the books and whatnot just aren't going.

More blather next post.

Karmacat

MFW **plans**:
- gardening! Fruit bushes and greens/herbs are the two biggies: raspberries, blackcurrants, rhubarb, quince, lavender and rosemary and a few miscellaneous bits. For greens, I have mint, chives, oregano, lemon balm, I think I have the edible chickweed and a few other volunteers. Plus the foraging fun.

- amazon/ebay/gumtree. I've made a commitment to my sister to sell her stuff, and I'm going to make one more try to sell the unwanted things of *mine* before I throw them. I'll wait a good while, till after Christmas even, maybe, but they've been around for a long time, and I don't have the space.

- tax return. A necessity! Financial admin alongside - amalgamating ISAs, better interest rates on accounts, that sort of thing.

- batch cooking - considering the amount of flour I have, this is also a necessity :rotfl:

- I'm making a haybox cooker! Taking forever, cos its a sturdy blighter, but I'm hopeful.

- keeping an eye out for other income streams, like the one I heard of yesterday, online work to help students who've written a thesis in English, when its not their first language. Not helping them cheat, but helping them put what they've already written into useable English.

- pension and retirement plotting :j

Cheery_Daff

Great work there! :j LOVE it that you moaned at the supermarket and got extra vouchers Well done, I never would have had the nerve! Good work

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery! I thought it was pretty funny, I have to say. All I did was fire off a return email to the peeps that sent it - they must have been completely shocked :rotfl:

I forgot Swagbucks in there - they don't seem to want me at all for surveys, I'm probably well outside their demographic, but between daily fiddly things, plus a few games, and the radio, I reckon I'll make the bonus that was mentioned in Martin's newsletter this week.

More note-taking now: I'm on the bit thats really important for my book, so this is where I'm thankful for my typing speed