Travelling On

Karmacat

Aw, thank you all! Yes, it was great - one of them is a professional singer, who gave us an impromptu little jazz fest - so I have another diary date now, for a concert she's headlining late this year. This year. 2019!! Woot!


Right, a sprint around the boards, then definitely, definitely, plotting for 2019.


xxx

Karmacat

A lot of this is about building on 2018, which has been a real turning point in my life. I really, really want to catch the 2019 growing season, I still haven't been able to catch the new season properly, but I think I've got a real shot this year.

Practical
1. Finish pruning hedges.
2. Prepare the garden for planting: weeding and digging.
3. Building work in the house: replastering, rewiring, RSJ installed.
4. New kitchen.
5. Repairs to the crap garden gate and door that were installed 14 months ago. Repairs to the fencing and the gate to the street as well.

Making connections
1. Keep on with the connections I've made that I like.
2. Use the diary I've bought - I've put in the regular basics and any one-offs I already know about. Make the most of all this!
3. Travel. Time to establish what I'd like to do, rather than doing anything that comes along that I feel I can cope with. Its a long time since I've been able to pay attention to my likes and wants on travel - I'm really looking forward to this one.
4. New connections: my diary feels quite full already for me, and it's important to keep going with older connections (like my friend in Margate) and still be open to making new ones, even with older acquaintances (there's some people in Bedfordshire I'd love to meet up again, we're still in contact so it would be doable).
5. A combination of (4) and (5) is to travel for some of the genealogy research. Ireland, France, Scotland, Northamptonshire and Yorkshire

Finances
1. Find out my net worth - I've no idea why I'm finding this so difficult to pay attention to, but I really need to do it.
2. Sort utilities - I'll check the gas and elec, though I think there's very minimal savings there. The main one has to be my mobile bill, which should go down to around £7.50. Will look at broadband after that.
3. Sort out where to put this probate money.

Hazelnutty

Thanks for sharing your plotting, Karma. I really like your making connections heading - it's so important but often we don't prioritise it. I'm going to add that to my happiness section if that's ok?

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For people who were wondering if their subscription to the Frugalwoods challenge had gone through alright, I've just received my first challenge emial:j


I've just started my own diary although I can't imagine it attracting the crowds as my life is so mundane compared to other people's:o. Please drop in sometime and see me, I'd hate to be all alone just talking to myself:rotfl:

Here's the link:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/75252188#Comment_75252188

It's titled: 'Sort of debt-free but hope to be a super-scrimper in 2019'

badmemory

Karmacat wrote: »

5. A combination of (4) and (5) is to travel for some of the genealogy research. Ireland, France, Scotland, Northamptonshire and Yorkshire

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Good luck with this! I need to do Germany. My maternal great grandfather apparantly lied (as far as we can tell anyway) to my father & my mother didn't know & actually looked the part (ie Jewish). He told my father he was a german jew who had left germany late 1890s & lived with an aunt in Norfolk. Total BS. Although he spoke very gutterally/germanic. His mother was german & married an englishman from Norfolk - where he and his elder brother & younger sister were born, but she was not jewish.



They warn you before you start that it can be a rollercoaster ride & that a lot of what you have had handed down is untrue. I suspect that knowing what I do the Jewish part came as he found himself with a German type name in a country that was going to war with germany & can completely understand but it doesn't half muddy the waters.


His mother came from a well known family in germany who mostly went to America & we suspect that it was on the route across the UK, Norfolk - Liverpool, that she met my great-great-grandfather.


So good luck with the research. I still have to find out whether my maternal granmother & her sister were the illegitemate daughters of ....! Well you get the picture! And some of the websites have too much information. It is impossible to find the wood for the trees!

Goldiegirl

Hi, KC, it sounds like quite a busy year you have planned. It'll be good to sort out the practical and the financial, as once that has been done, in future years you can spend more time on the fun stuff, such as the travel and the connections.

I also find the 'net worth' thing slightly perplexing. Since I've been retired, I've done a financial inventory on two occasions, normally when I'm feeling like we've been spending too much. Each time, I've been reassured, but I don't want to spend too much time on it, as I have moved away from logging every last detail. Having days out is much more fun!

taka

Happy new year KC!

the_cross_rabbit

Happy New Year Karmacat
CRx

Karmacat

Hazelnutty wrote: »

Thanks for sharing your plotting, Karma. I really like your making connections heading - it's so important but often we don't prioritise it. I'm going to add that to my happiness section if that's ok?

Of course, Hazelnutty! I'm pleased its useful to you :j

carbootcrazy wrote: »

For people who were wondering if their subscription to the Frugalwoods challenge had gone through alright, I've just received my first challenge emial:j

Great news! It was all getting very weird

I've just started my own diary although I can't imagine it attracting the crowds as my life is so mundane compared to other people's:o. Please drop in sometime and see me, I'd hate to be all alone just talking to myself:rotfl:

Brilliant :j I'll pop on there right after this thread - I suspect you have a more varied life than you think you have

badmemory wrote: »

They warn you before you start that it can be a rollercoaster ride & that a lot of what you have had handed down is untrue. I suspect that knowing what I do the Jewish part came as he found himself with a German type name in a country that was going to war with germany & can completely understand but it doesn't half muddy the waters.

So good luck with the research. I still have to find out whether my maternal granmother & her sister were the illegitemate daughters of ....! Well you get the picture! And some of the websites have too much information. It is impossible to find the wood for the trees!

Thanks badmemory! I'm still sorting the family history papers from my mum, but I started my own research literally 50 years ago, when the generation born in the early part of the 20th century were the age I am now :eek: so I have a lot more oral history available to me than more recent starters - very lucky that way! You're absolutely right about the lies, I have a couple of doozies - one trying to pretend that a particular birth wasn't illegitimate (in the 1850s, so it's understandable) but my maternal grandmother, although she was a gorgeous person, was also a bit inventive, shall we say :rotfl: though she really was in Las Vegas when James Bond was being filmed, and I know because my Norfolk rellie was the one who took her there and I've seen the photos :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Hi, KC, it sounds like quite a busy year you have planned. It'll be good to sort out the practical and the financial, as once that has been done, in future years you can spend more time on the fun stuff, such as the travel and the connections.

I also find the 'net worth' thing slightly perplexing. Since I've been retired, I've done a financial inventory on two occasions, normally when I'm feeling like we've been spending too much. Each time, I've been reassured, but I don't want to spend too much time on it, as I have moved away from logging every last detail. Having days out is much more fun!

Thanks for this Goldie - that makes sense, actually. And I have to have the information soon - although I have no income, I still own the dratted French property, so I have to do a tax return!

taka wrote: »

Happy new year KC!

Hi taka :hello: Happy new year to you too!

the_cross_rabbit wrote: »

Happy New Year Karmacat
CRx

Happy new year, CR, hope its a good one for you.


My first "making connections" event is starting soon (like, in 40 minutes!) I need to be up and out in 10 minutes, oops :rotfl: I can do it. I'll pop into Waitrose afterwards, as I'll be in the next block, see whats there. I did pretty well at my tidying up yesterday, my spare room is a lot more accessible. Thats it! Gotta go :kisses3: