Travelling On

Karmacat

pinkypig wrote: »

A fox, how fab! Do you hear it barking at night? I just love that sound, it reminds me of living in the country when the kids were little. Happy times:)
Glad felt well enough to get out for your walk xx

Hi PP I haven't heard this particular one, but I've heard them in the past - I have a little nature reserve (just a floodplain for the local stream, but its very wild, it looks like a mangrove swamp ) there are plenty around.

carbootcrazy wrote: »

It wouldn't have been any use to you though, KC, it was for people signing up for home deliveries for the first time. .... I know there can be minor problems with substitutions and use-by dates but home deliveries for rural-dwellers like me are brilliant:j

Good to know though - I'm tutoring my brother in MSE ways with offers and things, and he's prepared to get into TCB because his eldest son uses them so this will help, ta muchly.

As for home deliveries - I don't know what I'd have done without them, I really don't, even while I was working. I do know, actually - I'd have had to get a taxi both ways, and for the number of years I've **had** to use them, just to cope, that would've cost thousands of pounds. Small matters like use-by dates are just that, minor problems, as you say.

Karmacat

So today, I have a list. Not guaranteeing I'll even try to do it all, but I'd like to:




- open post, oh yeah, its been sitting there again

- washing machine on, but the weather's bad. Maybe putting it next to an open window will be good enough

- phone computer genealogy person at U3A, meeting on Friday, I've not paid yet.

- put away shopping. I give it a wipe down, so this hasn't been done yet.

- shortbread. I noticed the other day on here how much my stock of flour needed using up, and I'm thinking shortbread might be a good way to do it :rotfl:

- garden, well, not gardening, but chopping up the cut leylandii branches to put in the bin for Friday.

themadvix

The fox sounds amazing - how lovely that he's come back again

Thanks for the tip about SBs - I've just claimed a £25 voucher and through the spins got a swag up for 950SBs!

Mmm.... shortbread.... that is all!

the_cross_rabbit

mmmm another one for shortbread , but dunked in a glass of milk.

Karmacat

I just hope I haven't frightened him away ... both times, his jumps from a standing start were *really* high! I wouldn't fancy it out there right now, the rain is sometimes coming down something fierce ...

Not doing too badly on my list:
1. washing machine done, everything's hanging up, existing stuff that was dry is packed away.
2. Phoned U3A genealogy person - ahem, she's not the contact any more, and I don't have the phone number etc of the new one, so I'll turn up on Friday with cheque book in hand. So thats two local acquaintanceships reinforced.
3. **Ridiculous** amount of tidying done - how does it need this much when I've been tidy? Bah humbug :rotfl:


ETA - ooh, the shortbread's popular. Right, I'll get to it

Karmacat

Morning! Well, I did do the shortbread - hmm, I physically can't cream butter and sugar together, though, so I put it in the microwave on v v low for 30 seconds, hey ho. It cooked, in my halogen (don't use my actual oven, its *that* rubbish) but I'm really glad it didn't have eggs in, I'm not sure I'd have trusted it. It'll probably be better this morning. This kind of result is why I don't really cook, and certainly don't inflict what I *do* cook on anyone else :rotfl:

Cloudless sky with 0% chance of rain, says my app :j I've got to fit those leylandii prunings in the bin today.

SB running in the background, thats okay.

A lot more dented tins discovered from my Asda order - hadn't found them all by the time I phoned for a refund, I'll just use those ones in the next few days. I don't think I'll order tins from Asda if I don't need to use them within the week, its really not worth it.

Free Ancestry "weekend" - for WWI, but its not, not quite, its better :rotfl: I was looking for an elderly gent born in 1853, died in 1927, and I also got his nephews, the latest Electoral Register I accessed being 1970 :rotfl: fine by me! I never looked at electoral registers on paper, so its great they're online.

Today, I'm going to sort my mobile and maybe my broadband contract. My mobile piggybacks off my broadband at home anyway, because that service is so bad in my area - good riddance.

Karmacat

Just been to Martin's mobiles page - bless the man, he kickstarted a revolution all on his own I've ordered a free sim from giffgaff, I know now that they don't piggyback on Three, which was my main concern, and its the same deal that my friend who just moved to Glastonbury uses (though he sort of lives in Italy now ). All good. I've used [STRIKE]EE[/STRIKE] O2 in the past, but it was before I moved here, so better go back and check the coverage here.

Dishwasher is on.

SB videos zipping in and out on my phone, still giving me points for nothing.

I need Second Breakfast before I start on the leylandii ...








ETA - checked, all good.

the_cross_rabbit

Hi Karmacat, we all with giffgaff including my mum and the best thing about them is if you phone someone who is also on giffgaff its free.
CRx

Karmacat

Thanks CR, thats good news - I can think of a couple of people who might eventually cross from where they are, it's a real bargain compared to mainstream things.

Some of the leylandii are chopped and in the bin, and twigs and branches for the next bonfire are sorted, as well as some leaves to gently decompose.

One of the SB apps is *still* pootling on in the background, and along with a weirdly highly rewarded survey I'm only 4 points, read it and gawp, 4 points from yet another £10 voucher, which will award me another 950 points. I find it compelling, fascinating, and utterly, completely ridiculous :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


And oopsie, the free Ancestry info has swallowed my afternoon apart from the above. Never mind, you can allow stuff like that to happen when you're retired, even if things aren't perfect.

Karmacat

Last bit of mse work for me today: just managed to get *another* £10 Amazon voucher (by the skin of my teeth - disqualified for 3 surveys, for a total of 3 points :rotfl:) and once again I've been credited with 950SB :rotfl: I find it very odd that theyll hand out that number of points like smarties when they make us scrabble for a single one at other times. Such is life.


Have a good evening all