The Big Adventure

Goldiegirl

Hopefully, when you retire you'll have more time for doing house things, if you feel like it.

it's so nice to just do a bit, then stop for the day, and carry on another time. When we were at work, any decorating had to be crammed into a Bank holiday weekend. Then by the time it was back to work, we were exhausted.

My normal motto is, if something is working, don't mess around with it. But, today, I decided to mess around. My Yougov email is my 'spare' email address, which I don't check on a very regular basis. So I thought it'd be a good idea to change it to my main email address, so I could action any surveys as soon as the email came in.

I amended the address, and then tried to log in later, but it wouldn't let me, as it said I hadn't clicked a verification link on the email they sent me. Of cours, not an email to be seen, on either email account, or in spam. In the end I emailed for help, I got an auto reply, to say they try and deal with it in 3 working days. So now I wait. I know the survey companies aren't very good at replying to emails, so I'm just hoping for the best. I don't want to lose my 3950 points. I should have left well alone - I could kick myself!

In better news, our new garden bench has been assembled, and we had lunch outside today. The new cushion covers arrived and look lovely. I've been to the hairdressers, so I feel well groomed, and I've taken a stack of photos for the eBay stuff.

So not such a bad day.

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

I do sympathise with the email thing. I am the same, I think I know what I am doing and then wish I had left alone!

Karmacat

What a shame about the email thing! The other thing you could do is set up automatic forwarding to your ordinary email address ...

Loving the outside lunches!

misscousinitt

The e-mail thing is a real pain - I seem to go through this every now and then and then wonder why I try to make things harder for myself.

Jealous of you eating outside - can't wait till we can!

MCI

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

What a shame about the email thing! The other thing you could do is set up automatic forwarding to your ordinary email address ...

Loving the outside lunches!

My email is a web based one, and they don't offer email forwarding, unfortunately. In any event, I can't sign in to You Gov with my old email address, as they no longer recognise it, so the damage has well and truly been done! I am, as they say, well and truly stuffed! I've mentally let go of YouGov, as I'll be suprised if I ever regain access the the account.

Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »

I do sympathise with the email thing. I am the same, I think I know what I am doing and then wish I had left alone!

misscousinitt wrote: »

The e-mail thing is a real pain - I seem to go through this every now and then and then wonder why I try to make things harder for myself.

Jealous of you eating outside - can't wait till we can!

MCI

I hate it when I make things difficult for myself, when I could have kept things simple.

The worse thing I ever did was renew my anti virus with an email address I had no access to whatsoever. It had a continuous payment authority, and there was no way I could cancel the authority. I was worried I'd have to make a payment forever! In the event, my credit card expired before the next renewal date, so I was ok.... But I had to worry about it for a year!:rotfl:

Another nice day today. This morning we went for a walk at the country park near the river, and apart from birds, saw a rabbit, fox and lizard.

Then we came home and had lunch in the garden again.

I've also started some eBay listing, and got rid of another batch of paperwork.

My car tax renewal came through today - only £30, much better than my old car.

We normally get a water bill in October and April, and it's paid on 5th November and 5th May. This time, no bill and no DD has been taken from our bank account. Very odd. I'll give it a few weeks, and if nothing happens, I'll have to phone them. Or Mr Goldie will as it's in his name. I've put him on notice that he may need to take action!

Karmacat

A lizard! Thats special! Nice one

I do love that you're keeping up with stuff.

Goldiegirl

This seems to be a few weeks of keeping up with stuff


Today I got the net curtains washed, and Mr Goldie mended the shed with the wood salvaged from our old bench.


At one point this afternoon, I was sitting on the sofa, and noticed movement in the garden. What had happened, a bird's nest had fallen out of one of the large shrubs, complete with the wood pigeon still in it!


I felt sorry for it - must have been like having your house fall down about you. We've put the nest back in the shrub, but we don't know if we've put it in the right place, and it might fall out again anyway.


I've order the chalk paint and wax for the chairs we want to paint. It was quite expensive for the size of tin that we bought. This is a bit of an experiment for us. If it looks ok, we MAY consider painting other furniture in the living and dining room, but this would be in the future, not just yet

newgirly

Hi goldiegirl, did you get to see the BBC drama a couple of years ago made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of dr.who - "an adventure in space and time" ? It was a really lovely story about the commissioning of the series and William hartnell , well worth a watch if you have not seen it, all original set props from the BBC too

Goldiegirl

newgirly wrote: »

Hi goldiegirl, did you get to see the BBC drama a couple of years ago made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of dr.who - "an adventure in space and time" ? It was a really lovely story about the commissioning of the series and William hartnell , well worth a watch if you have not seen it, all original set props from the BBC too

Yes, I do remember seeing that. I like that sort of thing - another one I remember from about 6 months ago was a drama about how Dad's Army got started. If there was one programme my dad liked more than Dr Who, it was Dad's Army.


Those sort of programmes remind me of happy family times:)


Today started with a slightly less than successful trip to Dobbies.


I know I've mentioned before that I'm in the Dobbies loyalty scheme. It cost £10, but it offered 10% off everything in store, so we used to get quite a lot of oddments from there, not just gardening things. Also, there were the free coffees


Anyway, my renewal was due in March. Back in March, I was sent a new membership card, along with their new terms and conditions. Now it's only 10% off plants and seeds, and loyalty points for everything else, plus the two free coffees each month.


As I wasn't asked for a renewal fee, I assumed that this downgraded scheme was free.


Anyway, today we go to Dobbies, to look at getting some plants for the garden.


First port of call, the caf! for our free coffees. I present my card - but was told my membership expired in March after all.


It seems everyone got a new card in March, it was just a co-incidence the it also happened to be my renewal time as well. (not that I was asked for the renewal fee)


So, I had to pay for the coffees :mad::(


The range of plants was not good - I think they must have sold out over the weekend. We managed a tomato plant, and a couple of nice fushcias which will go in pots by our new bench.


But no 10% off, as my membership expired.


After all that, I've decided not to renew. We'd have to spend £100 on plants to break even, and I don't think we'll be spending that much. And we'll just have to do without a free coffee!


As an alternative, we're going to explore buying our plants online - we buy lots other things this way, so it seems logical, and probably cheaper. Plus we should be able to get cashback from Quidco.


A bit later we walked down to the farm shop to post my eBay parcel (via My Hermes). We sold our old duvet cover, sheet and pillowcases for £3.99. On the way back, we took a detour, and went along a footpath that we'd seen before and always wondered where it went.


It went through fields, with a cherry orchard one side and an apple orchard on the other. It came out on to a lane that we know, so we walked home from the lane, but we could have crossed the lane and carried on the footpath.


Who knew that there was such a nice walk so close to home - it's also made us look at other footpaths in the immediate vicinity, which we hope to explore.


As it was such a nice day, we had lunch in the garden again, and did a little bit of work in the garden. Not that much though, as we have a man coming round on Friday to cut back the big shrubs, and it the boarders will get 'leafed' again. We'll do it properly after the shrubs are done.


I'm pleased we've made the most of the nice weather. It's clouded up now, and I understand the best of the warmth is over - for the time being at least.


So, all in all, another good day - apart from Dobbies.


Oh - and nothing from You Gov - *sigh* !

Watty1

Sounds a lovely walk. One to do again and with the possibility of a snack at certain times of year (tsk tsk I know)