Breaking Through, Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Lots going on for you kc! :j well done on the garden, and exciting stuff with the ebook! :j Sorry to hear about family emergency though, hope it passes soon xx

also wanted to say thank you for encouraging me to bleed the radiators got a new key yesterday (for £1 :money: ) and it took me about 10 minutes to do them all :rotfl: the jobs we put off!! :rotfl: Between that and our new flushed out properly working boiler we could only bear to have the heating on for half an hour before we were boiling :eek: :rotfl: i can see a rather drastic reduction in our gas bill :j

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I accidentally signed up to the £5 fee version of TCB - not sure how, as I am usually very careful about this sort of thing. Were you able to downgrade half way though a year, or was it your renewal date? If possible I want to downgrade, so I can get my hands on the pennies I've earned.

Oh Goldie, I'm sorry - I've only just signed up (mid October) and when you said you'd been charged, I went and had a look at my account and they said about "you can downgrade in the first month" so I did. But only because you'd pointed it out. It doesn't make much difference to what you get, and I don't plan on using it much anyway. Hope you can sort something.

Our new handsets are also charging, as I write this. They've got some great ring tones, can't wait to use them:T

So are mine :rotfl: I haven't finished it all off yet, but I'm hopefuly :T

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Lots going on for you kc! :j well done on the garden, and exciting stuff with the ebook! :j Sorry to hear about family emergency though, hope it passes soon xx

Thanks Cheery - yep, there's lots going on, the diary is invaluable in keeping track of it all. I'm waiting with baited breath to hear from the mate I've sent it to The family emergency is more or less over, a bit of cleanup to be done, but without doubt, relationships to a part of the extended family are damaged, permanently.

also wanted to say thank you for encouraging me to bleed the radiators got a new key yesterday (for £1 :money: ) and it took me about 10 minutes to do them all :rotfl: the jobs we put off!! :rotfl: Between that and our new flushed out properly working boiler we could only bear to have the heating on for half an hour before we were boiling :eek: :rotfl: i can see a rather drastic reduction in our gas bill :j

Thats fantastic on all fronts :j good for you! I love that, when you can do something mse that means your bills go down but there's no change in your lifestyle

The other thing like that that *I* need to do is move my fridge/freezer and get the dust off the grid thing at the back - I think those are the way the heat dissipates? And if they're dirty, they can't do it as easily, so your fridge costs more to run. I *think* thats true.

Today, however, I've declared a holiday :beer::beer::beer: I'm slow getting going because I've caught up on my sleep a bit :j but when I *am* going, I'm off to play at the seaside

edinburgher

I can't believe it's taken you 10 months to charge your handsets, I take it you get something like 2 years of standby use before they'll need charged again? :rotfl:

Goldiegirl

Re TCB - I think they are a bit cheeky, as they seem to put people on the £5 account automatically.

I've only got about 80p cash back so far, so at this rate I won't even make enough to pay the fee.

In that case, I'm following my original plan - ditch TCB, and start using £co, where I've got a free account

Have you got you new phones up and running yet? We've never had cordless phones before, so it's be nice to take calls in comfort on the sofa

Hope you've had a good day off

Karmacat

edinburgher wrote: »

I can't believe it's taken you 10 months to charge your handsets, I take it you get something like 2 years of standby use before they'll need charged again? :rotfl:

Cheeky :rotfl: its taken me 10 months to take them out of the box, not re-charge after use :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Re TCB - I think they are a bit cheeky, as they seem to put people on the £5 account automatically.

I've only got about 80p cash back so far, so at this rate I won't even make enough to pay the fee.

In that case, I'm following my original plan - ditch TCB, and start using £co, where I've got a free account

Makes total sense to me, I'd do that too in your shoes.

Have you got you new phones up and running yet? We've never had cordless phones before, so it's be nice to take calls in comfort on the sofa

It *does* make a difference to have cordless - you can do comfortable, or you can do pottering about doing stuff, if you're on hold with some ridiculous organisation :T

Erm, I've input the date and time ... haven't set the answerphone up yet, though, so I can't switch over to the new ones. I'll do that today. Because the other thing is I used to have two handsets, then one died completely, and the other only holds a charge for a couple of hours, so I don't have a phone downstairs right now not good! But not having an answerphone would be impossible, because of work.

Hope you've had a good day off

I did thanks :j Didn't leave the house till midday so I changed the plan, and went to the very pretty, stocked-up-to-the-gills with lovely shops, county town, not the seaside town, which is full of groups of screaming 14 year olds on Saturday afternoons :eek:

So I popped into the Waitrose, found out how to finally join myWaitrose, and also bought some garlic bulbs for plant-your-own. I'm determined to get proper crops from my garden next year :j

Today's weather is awfully, awfully grim :eek: though I may still be tempted outside to do something or other

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...I did thanks :j Didn't leave the house till midday so I changed the plan, and went to the very pretty, stocked-up-to-the-gills with lovely shops, county town, ...

...Today's weather is awfully, awfully grim :eek: though I may still be tempted outside to do something or other ...

Glad to hear you got out and about in the lovely sunshine yesterday!

We took a break from clearing out mum-in-law's house! So it truely felt like a holiday day! Sis-in-law is none too happy with us for playing truant, but we are doing the bulk of everything so she'll just have to cope for one weekend!

Today is truely dismal grey & overcast where we are - have had to break out the portable dryer to finish drying laundry as there is no way it would dry outside in the rain! (It's still cheaper to use than going to the closest laundrette to use the dryers, which is 20 minutes away by car & always has a queue!) Oh the joys of living in a tiny cottage!:rotfl:

Karmacat

Glad you had fun in the sunshine too And anyway, to do that clearing thing every weekend is horrible, you need a bit more than that

Cloudburst! Right now :eek: but I want to go out today too!

Goldiegirl

It's stopped raining now, but I've giving up on going out, as it'll be getting dark soon


If you are considering any new bookies for the MB, Skybet may be worth a look.


If you put on a £5 bet, you get a free £20 bet, according to what I saw on TV


That seems quite generous

Karmacat

Thanks Goldie, that *does* seem generous I need to hold off on everything, as I don't want to start regular betting using my main current account - for one month alone, my bank statements used to run to 3 full pages, and I'm not mucking up this account like that :eek: the ones I did recently were done because they were only on offer a week, so I had to take advantage of them or lose them. And having done that, that exchange keeps sending me offer for loads of tricky ones ... once my card arrives, I'm going to aim for a net of £50 a week :money:

I did manage to get outside, it was great; raining when I started, but I was dressed for it so I didn't really care. Feet got soaked tho - I checked out some of my route on google earth and it was tarmacked, but there was quite a bit that wasn't, and the puddles were very, very wide :rotfl:

I'll do a blog about that walk eventually, and link to it, because there were Halloween deccies still up - two hanging men, life size, with the "gallows" built in to a church wall :eek::eek::eek: I took some photos. It was a bit ... weird. Spoke to them at the farm, though, they were nice :beer:

Karmacat

Morning! Woke up full of the joys of spring :j I'd sent off The Book to a friend who can look it over knowledgeably, and got back the most amazing input thats going to improve it 100%. So I'm very happy :beer: And now for coloured lists, a la Cheery and Pippi

3rd November today. So, a monthly plan, I think:
Two new things:
- do the accounts
- check on cards and presents for Xmas.
Four (uh oh!) continuing things:
- work on the book and get it published.
- once a week blogging.
- follow up on financial life admin.
- ready the garden for winter.

And for this week (smaller projects which will help accomplish the monthly goals ):
[STRIKE]- get the new phones working, finally - this consists of muting the base volume (I can hear it in the counselling room) and switching on the answerphone [/STRIKE] Monday morning, done!

[STRIKE]- enter free Waitrose comp, and finally join myWaitrose, though I think I may have missed the best deal.[/STRIKE]Monday morning, done!

- set up the writing blog, and do the first post, which will be on the mobile phone thing, I think.

- revise book, as per nearly all of my mate's suggestions.

[STRIKE]- use free ebay listings, for my sister's stuff and for mine.[/STRIKE]Tuesday afternoon, big chunk done, calling a temporary halt, happy with that.

[STRIKE]- deal with existing post.[/STRIKE]Monday afternoon, done!

ETA: And I didn't include anything about the cat designs. My bad ....