Travelling On

Karmacat

Perfect! I love that :j

So, today:
- SB, and a big win - 300 points in one survey, and they *were* awarded :j
- bank account switch has started :j
- ordered another myWaitrose card, silly not to use it for offers on basics when its actually my nearest supermarket.
- admin of life phone call with sister, arranging things for the next month or so :j

I'm not sure it's wise to go ahead with the utilities and telecoms switches while the bank account is being switched - if I can gather up the switching energy again, I'll try to find out.

Outside work is really needed - getting rid of the cherry laurel I've already cut, and planting the rest of the garlic bulbs, but I'm ever so slightly nervous of doing it right now - gusts of up to 55mph or whatever are not something I want to be around if a tile comes off something

Hmmm. So, either cooking lentil portions for freezing, or tidying up paperwork. I feel like I've been up forever, so I need a cuppa tea first and a canter around the forum.

Karmacat

Update on my ta-da list:
- cooked 3 portions of lentils and onions (I chopped onions! Wonders never cease).
- I'm going to try to go ahead with the utilities switch - but I'll do it tomorrow, when I have more energy.
- quite a bit of tidying up, electronic and otherwise.
- I opened a piece of post that came **today**! I'm cured!!!

- no wind and not-rainy in the afternoon, so I hoicked the cut laurel branches to the front of the house, then got my chair out to the back, to cut some more. A mix of branches and enormous great treetrunks, though thankfully the treetrunk sections were only a couple of feet long. Doing that thins it out, makes it easier to reach the branches that are still towering 20 feet high.



Definitely making progress on getting my backlog sorted out.

Betterthanever

Hurrah to progress! Baby steps, remember x

earthgirl

Wow, tree trunks! Chair? Have you turned into Lara Croft? Be careful Karma! Pleased you are enjoying the feeling of clearing the backlog, love that feeling!

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Karmacat wrote: »

Update on my ta-da list:
- cooked 3 portions of lentils and onions (I chopped onions! Wonders never cease).
- I'm going to try to go ahead with the utilities switch - but I'll do it tomorrow, when I have more energy.
- quite a bit of tidying up, electronic and otherwise.
- I opened a piece of post that came **today**! I'm cured!!!

- no wind and not-rainy in the afternoon, so I hoicked the cut laurel branches to the front of the house, then got my chair out to the back, to cut some more. A mix of branches and enormous great treetrunks, though thankfully the treetrunk sections were only a couple of feet long. Doing that thins it out, makes it easier to reach the branches that are still towering 20 feet high.



Definitely making progress on getting my backlog sorted out.

Sounds like a very productive day:T, especially opening the newly-delivered post;). Just be careful if you're balancing on a chair to cut branches. My Dad was once on the top tread of a tall pair of steps (couldn't be bothered to get the ladder out) when trying to trim a tree, over-reached, the steps toppled over and he ended up with 3 broken ribs:eek:

Is anyone else heartily sick of emails from their energy suppliers trying to get them to have a smart meter installed? I seem to get these at least once a week now from Scottish Power who say they are 'in the area' (yeah, right;)) and would like to come and install one here.

I've no intention of having one unless they are absolutely compulsory. They aren't are they?.

Cheery_Daff

Don't think they're compulsory at the minute, no. I volunteered for one in our old house - I enjoyed not having to clamber round in the cellar to read the meter and always having accurate bills Ours also had a little screen thing that you could keep in the kitchen to tell you how much energy you were using. I never had any issues with mine but I do know other people have concerns for various reasons - when we sold the house the new people moaned that it was on a smart meter but fortunately didn't pull out because of it!

wishingthemortgaheaway

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Sounds like a very productive day:T, especially opening the newly-delivered post;). Just be careful if you're balancing on a chair to cut branches. My Dad was once on the top tread of a tall pair of steps (couldn't be bothered to get the ladder out) when trying to trim a tree, over-reached, the steps toppled over and he ended up with 3 broken ribs:eek:

Is anyone else heartily sick of emails from their energy suppliers trying to get them to have a smart meter installed? I seem to get these at least once a week now from Scottish Power who say they are 'in the area' (yeah, right;)) and would like to come and install one here.

I've no intention of having one unless they are absolutely compulsory. They aren't are they?.

Not compulsory at all, although some companies do special 'smart meter tariffs'
The energy supplier bulb doesn't use smart meters and usually comes out competitively priced on the comparison sites. If you use a referral link both referred and referee get £50 credit
(I have got such a referral code if you do need one)

Karmacat

Afternoon all! Yep, I don't want a smart meter till I have to, and I especially don't want a first generation one, that loses smartness when you switch providers! Not good!

Using a saw while I'm perched on a chair ... it has its problems, doesn't it! Especially since I'm in the backyard, no one could see me if I fell off. I take my phone with me, I don't reach too far, and when I first get up, I hang on to a trunk so if the rotted decking collapses under the chair, I don't go with it :rotfl: that actually happened during the first session, a few years ago, and I was sort of swinging from the trunk :rotfl:

My lovely neighbour saw all the laurel branches and brought his (already fairly full) green bin over: he managed to get *all* of it in! He's my hero. He's letting me use the whole bin when its emptied next week, and I shall be buying him a very nice bottle of red wine

I'd decided to go to a U3A coffee morning, and my whole body was saying Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! So I didn't, and was karmically rewarded immediately by running into said neighbour, thats when he offered me the bin. So it was the right decision

I've done very little today, otherwise. I'd quite like to switch utilities, but I'm sort of in laurel cutting mode again, and I still suspect that changing utilities while in the middle of changing banks might be a faff too far. Time will tell.

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wishingthemortgaheaway wrote: »

Not compulsory at all, although some companies do special 'smart meter tariffs'
The energy supplier bulb doesn't use smart meters and usually comes out competitively priced on the comparison sites. If you use a referral link both referred and referee get £50 credit
(I have got such a referral code if you do need one)

Thank you. If I need the referral code I'll certainly ask you first:beer:.

I've been with Scottish Power for a while but always check tariffs of other suppliers at switching time. My current 'fix' still has about 14 months to run so I don't want to switch yet. I know SP get a pretty poor press, I think for customer service, but until this current bombardment with smart meter emails I'd had nothing but positive experiences with them. I might email or phone them and tell them to stop. The emails are from a 'do not reply' address and are probably just sent to all their regular meter owners regardless.



I'm like you, KC, and don't want one because of the problems lots of people I know have had with the 1st generation ones, especially after switching:eek:. I might switch suppliers myself when my current 'fix' ends. Unlike you, Cheery Daff, I have no problems accessing and reading our meter. It's in a lockable box/cubbyhole set into the outside wall of the house and accessed from outside so no scrabbling round in cellars required. Not that we even have a cellar:rotfl:

Karmacat

Ouch, CBC, yes, better not switch in the middle of a fix, absolutely not. I didn't do it either, I just thought doing the two together would create more problems than it would solve. I'll check bulb, though, wish - I only just realised


I *did* go chopping laurel branches and a couple of trunks, plus drafted a blog post that I'll put up online tonight, hopefully. Dishwasher is finally on - I've been snacking too much, delaying cookery, which really, really isn't good. No more snackfood till Christmas, I have no willpower at all around them, can't have them in the house.