Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Rest was the constant, I assure you! I did very little once I'd bought my veggies and cards. Today - supposed to be going up to London, but the storm created so many problems, we decided not to, and instead drove to the coast to watch the waves :jVery blowy and tired but in a good way, we didn't walk far at all, we hopped in the car for distances of a couple of hundred yards We stopped on the front to write out and co-sign the cards, which felt good.

Literally done nothing else. House is filthy, garden is rampant once again :eek: I'll probably spend half an hour this evening just tidying the house, enough so that it's liveable and fairly hygienic.

I need to do quite a lot of life admin tomorrow .... ulp.

earthgirl

Glad you had a good day. Its certainly blowy up here on the coast!

EatingTheElephant

I do love a good blowy day to blow out the cobwebs, so invigorating

Karmacat

It was gorgeous! We had a great view of the waves as they rolled right through the Channel from the Atlantic, breaking on a marina wall :j

Right, got my list:
- post cards
- pay 123reg and sort paypal account details
- pay my website host
- start to fund the Virgin regular saver
- renew library books (again )
- phone bruv
- phone sister
- once the list is done, have a long hot shower.
- if I want to do anything else, faff about with the evacuee letters.


ETA - still no news on the Post Office recalling the money from the Paragon Bank isa I need to chase that

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Karmacat

[STRIKE]- post cards[/STRIKE]
done

[STRIKE]- pay 123reg and sort paypal account details[/STRIKE]
done, good lord, it took forever!

[STRIKE]- pay my website host[/STRIKE]
done, hurray, that was fast!

[STRIKE]- start to fund the Virgin regular saver [/STRIKE]
done, good lord, this also took forever!

[STRIKE]- renew library books (again )[/STRIKE]
don't need to be renewed till the 12th.

[STRIKE]- phone sister[/STRIKE]
done, transport tomorrow arranged.

- phone bruv

[STRIKE]- once the list is done, have a long hot shower.[/STRIKE]
done - though list not completed, I don't care

- if I want to do anything else, faff about with the evacuee letters.

- chase Post Office recalling the money from the Paragon Bank isa
I think the most I can do on this today is send an email. PO were supposed to ring me. Paragon have my money now, but PO are supposed to be calling it back. Pah. Still, I've been facing the computer for a looooong time now, going to pop out to get some fresh air.

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Karmacat

Morning lovely people

As I mentioned on the Kon Mari thread, I was at the Antiques Roadshow yesterday, and had a mug valued ... a Silver Jubilee mug from 1977, made by an artisan potter and gifted to immediate family and friends (okay, his children and their partners). Over £100 :eek: so I'll find a nicer place to put it than the top of a kitchen cabinet ...

Utterly exhausted by being out in the wind for so long - I think there were more people than they were expecting, it's a rich part of the country, no mistake, so there's a lot of stuff stored away in attics and garages for people to bring along. Very interesting, though, and it was held at a National Trust place that I can get to by public transport easily.

Still need a bit of a list for today:
- contact Post Office to chase their retrieval of the new ISA money
- contact Friends Life so I can sort out logging on and find out how pension money is distributed between stocks/bonds/cash etc.
- phone bruv.
- open post.
- Note for the squeamish: don't read this paragraph, seriously, it's not nice.
pest control guy is coming along today, 3rd visit, and I need selected cleaning to be able to demonstrate exactly what I'm freaking about - two areas downstairs smell absolutely terrible! Is that mould starting to grow (very unlikely but not impossible) or is it what I think it *really* is, the decaying bodies of rats caught in the cavity wall? :eek::eek::eek:

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Suffolk_lass

Karmacat wrote: »

- Note for the squeamish: don't read this paragraph, seriously, it's not nice.
pest control guy is coming along today, 3rd visit, and I need selected cleaning to be able to demonstrate exactly what I'm freaking about - two areas downstairs smell absolutely terrible! Is that mould starting to grow (very unlikely but not impossible) or is it what I think it *really* is, the decaying bodies of rats caught in the cavity wall? :eek::eek::eek:

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Oh my! It is an unmistakable smell...

themadvix

That sounds truly grim!!:eek::eek: I hope the pest control man can sort it out for you!

Excellent news about the mug - how cool! I've always fancied going to an Antiques Roadshow day, they look really interesting, but I'm not sure I've really got anything to take.

Karmacat

themadvix wrote: »

That sounds truly grim!!:eek::eek: I hope the pest control man can sort it out for you!

Agreed on all counts _pale_

Excellent news about the mug - how cool! I've always fancied going to an Antiques Roadshow day, they look really interesting, but I'm not sure I've really got anything to take.

I'd certainly go again for the experience, but I'd never take anything again ... waiting in line for so long (3 hours to reception, another hour in the ceramics queue) was awful :eek: I was in a lot of pain, and very cold, and sick with hunger because I didn't dare eat cos of how lousy my digestion is :eek: And its just *boring* to queue for that amount of time, no matter how nice the other participants were. And they were.

One young woman had gone there straight from dropping off her son at school, and needed to be back at about 3pm to pick him up, of course. At about 1pm, she went off to ask the organisers if there was any chance she'd be seen by about 2.30, time enough to get back to her town. No, there wasn't a chance of that, so she left.

I'm cleaning right now - emptying kitchen cupboards so the rat issue can be clarified. Can't face phone calls.

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Karmacat

My lovely pest control guy is very happy - of the six pieces of bait he put in the loft, only one has gone. And he looked properly at my cupboards in the kitchen, took a good sniff, pointed out a few cobwebs as a good thing, felt the far wall to see if it was wet (it wasn't) - and quite a few things I've pulled out from the cupboard, especially artisan wooden plates etc, have mould on them

I can't quite believe I'm going to say this, but I think its just mould, that cupboard no longer gets aired after I plugged the holes to the outside, and its overstuffed for the amount of ventilation it *does* get - that's just how it is ... whatever work I can manage to do, it's all about that, nothing is more important, I don't care if I get stuck with a bad ISA ... having wholesome air in the house is more important.

A cleaning schedule will be initiated.

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