Travelling On

Karmacat

Needed a quiet day at home after yesterday's London shenanigans, so thats what I had tidying, faffing, and then some digging in the garden, plus **cat** politics. A local black cat is on heat, and every other feline in the neighbourhood is affected :rotfl:


Just done a supermarket order for after the rabbit sitting, to get ahead of myself, and it turns out that as well as 10 x Nectar points on personal care products etc, Saynsbo have given me a total of £17.50 off my last two orders. Plus I now have £17 in nectar points to spend. Quite pleased at that.


And my SB points for the second cruise finally arrived - another £30 Amazon vouchers requested I'm really pleased with that.


Sleep well all

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Karmacat wrote: »

Just done a supermarket order for after the rabbit sitting, to get ahead of myself, and it turns out that as well as 10 x Nectar points on personal care products etc, Saynsbo have given me a total of £17.50 off my last two orders. Plus I now have £17 in nectar points to spend. Quite pleased at that.


Sleep well all

I hope you slept well yourself, KC:T

I was really pleased to get a £8 off a £50 spend from Sainsburys last week:j. I haven't had a voucher code for months whereas at one time they were arriving in my inbox every single week. I had the extra Nectar points offer too but I'd already stocked up at Wilkinsons with everything in the relevant catagories that I could possibly need for the foreseeable future (and some:o) when I was in my local town on Thursday:(

rtandon27

Ooooo KC - nice deals with the points and vouchers!

Karmacat

Thanks! Yep, those deals are good, aren't they! I'd stocked up already with a few bits - my interdens brushes for toofypegs, frinstance, but I can always do more


Popping out to the Council's Healthy Walk in a second, then I'll relax as I get back by doing my emails, then, ta-da, my plan is to have another little bonfire, I'd really like to clear things like that. Over the last month or so, I've been pulling up dead branches of things (mostly buddleia!) from where I'd put them on the ground to decay and add content to the soil. Erm, in a little suburban garden, that takes *way* too long. So, burn it is.

beanielou

Happy walking & bonfire

Karmacat

Thanks Beanie! The kindling will be nice and dry, and I've even learned to make my own firelighters (otherwise known as a ball of cotton wool/cotton rag and a dab of vaseline

beanielou

Tipping it down here sadly.

maddiemay

Boiling hot in Sunny West Dorset, may not have packed enough suitable clothes, but there are always CS:D

I swallowed one of those two big frogs this morning and my friend down here is really happy to meet up with OH and me, I am arranging to take us out for a meal on Thursday:D:D:D

Well done with the pruning and hopefully burning, it gives great satisfaction clearing stuff.

Karmacat

Well done Maddie, good for you my frog disappeared nicely too, the friend I'd sent my Awfully Late Email to, she was on holiday, which is why she didn't reply. So now, we've fixed up a date to meet, I'm really chuffed.

The bonfire happened :j I think its the hottest day that I've ever done one, but I'm a lot healthier now, so it was no problem. I was dozy on doing the emails, but the bonfire was more time critical, I wanted it cooled down before I though about rabbit sitting. I really think I'll be able to burn all the branches that are laying about, well before winter. Sssh, don't say that word. Though **then** the big tasks in the garden will be finishing off the brambles, and cutting back the cherry laurel *again* - its twice as high as it was. Insanity.


Celebrating now with a cuppa

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The bonfire happened :j …...

Good for you:beer:. I love bonfires, seems so satisfying seeing whatever we want to get rid of disappearing before our eyes:j. OH is a great one for bonfires, although we do compost everything remotely compostable. All the compost bins at the bottom of our garden, thankfully well screened by trees and shrubs, look like the Daleks have landed in force:rotfl:. I only get to have a bonfire of my own (to burn personal paperwork mainly) when OH is away for a few days, otherwise he keeps coming and interfering. He thinks no one but him is capable of burning stuff:rotfl:


I had my 6th injection this morning. Only 1 of the initial 7 to go now and I'm certainly feeling a bit more lively than I did a few weeks ago. Not 100% back to normal yet but every little helps:j


I came on here really, KC, to pick your brains yet again:o. Please don't go to any trouble or spend time on helping. I was really touched by how you went to the trouble of even doing a 'dummy' death search for a relative you already had data for when I mentioned having problems with obtaining a death certificate:A.


As part of my research for my book I need to have some idea of people's fear of nuclear war back in the early 1980s. Just off the top of your head, did anything particularly significant happen during late 1983/early '84? Are there any books you could recommend please? It probably seems bizarre that I need this sort of information for my book which is based on murders of people I knew but it's because of the state of mind of the murderer at the time.


I recall a brilliant TV drama in late 1984 called Threads which depicted the horrors of a nuclear bomb on Sheffield. It made a massive impression on me at the time. The screenplay was by Barry Hines but I've never been able to track it down in printed format other than as a film script on a movie script website but it doesn't 'read' like a book IYKWIM. I still have the TV play recorded on VHS tape but sadly haven't the technology to play it any more:(. This drama was screened after the dates I'm interested in so isn't altogether relevant. It does show a growing unease about the nuclear threat round about that time though.