Travelling On

beanielou

apple_muncher wrote: »

Beanielou - we should swap locations!

Done!

KC~~20 quid in a week is awesome

Karmacat

The £20 was partly luck, beanie - I won 2,500 points, as I say, which took care of one voucher and a bit more, and plugging away at the other stuff brought me the rest. Might finish off there this evening ...

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Karmacat wrote: »

Oh my Well, I love the look of snow - and I have some of those crampon things (not quite crampons ... spikes on straps) from Mountain Warehouse for the ice if it stays ... as long as I have a choice about whether to go out in any particular weather, I'm mostly fine with it, actually. Commutes, no!

Those spikes sound brilliant, KC:T


I love the snow now I don't have a long commute to work. Walking in it is great:j. Just staying in and looking at it through the window is even better:rotfl:. There's none forecast for us in the immediate future though. Driving in snow and ice especially on the ungritted roads we have round here is something I really hate. Not just hate, it really scares me sometimes. When I had a long commute to work I felt like I'd done a day's work before I even arrived there:(. I seemed to spend so much time in those days checking the weather forecast. A lot of the time it wasn't so easy to do as smartphones and apps were a thing of the future and even online info on PC websites was pretty sketchy. I'm fascinated by the weather and now actually enjoy finding out what it's going to do even though the information is hardly crucial to me any more:)

Karmacat

I like the forecasts too, CBC the spiky things had very good reviews on here - Cheery, I think it was - and yes, even before I retired, I had no commute because I worked from home. I *did* do one day a week in London, leaving London at 10pm, and that could get a bit hairy sometimes, but we never got stuck.


My walk beckons! See you later xxx

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Karmacat wrote: »

I like the forecasts too, CBC the spiky things had very good reviews on here - Cheery, I think it was - and yes, even before I retired, I had no commute because I worked from home. I *did* do one day a week in London, leaving London at 10pm, and that could get a bit hairy sometimes, but we never got stuck.

My walk beckons! See you later xxx

It was the actual driving I hated. However careful I was there were always occasions when I could feel the wheels sliding:eek:. It was really scary if I was the first car of the day along a lane or narrow country road as sometimes it was impossible in the dark of an early winter morning after heavy overnight snow to work out where the side of road ended and the grassy narrow bank of a deep, waterfilled ditch started:eek:. I had to concentrate so hard when there were no one else's tracks to guide me. OH always made sure I went equipped with a shovel, hessian sacks to put down to get traction if necessary once stopped, a bag of grit and goodness knows what else in the boot:eek:. All that just to get to work in a city which was almost totally cleared of snow by the time I arrived and where people probably had no idea what it was like just a few miles away out in the countryside:rotfl:.

Karmacat

Oh my, it was cold out there - looked absolutely beautiful, mind you Bitty day:


1 - did the council walk, recovered from the cold, tho that took a long time.
2 - cleaned a drawer in the freezer that was dirtying everything in there - frozen fruit thawed all over it, yuck.
3 - lunch was cleaning up bits and pieces - pasta made from gram flour, that sort of thing.
4 - I've started to follow a recipe my mum cut out of a newspaper for me - soaking some flour for a couple of hours to make flatbreads. I've seen so many recipes, and they all come out rubbish when I make them, but this soaking beforehand business could be the trick for me
5 - I bit the bullet and did an online order - only £1 delivery charge, and a £9 voucher just for being me delivery tomorrow, hurray.
6 - 10 minutes in the garden tidying stalks - my lovely lemon balm is in trouble it's almost overwhelmed with grass. Maybe I can split it and repot it? I'll see 7 - I'll do more after the snow's been and gone.
8 - My neighbour's green bin, full of my green stuff, is on the roadside awaiting the lorry tomorrow.
9 - finally spoke with my ex-colleague; he's no sooner back from Florence than he's off to Tenerife this week. That's what drove me out to the garden - I ***have*** to get my self and my property in gear, so I can cope with going away. I'm starting to think I'm being too cautious with my savings, though he has more money than me and he still works at the local university ... come hell or high water, I'm definitely going to have at least one winter break next year.


The rest of today:
- wm on.
- I can start on some scanning, including the French bank statements, which I submit online to my accountant.
- repot some plants for my brother.
- ring brother.

Cheery_Daff

Excellent work today! :j :j My lemon balm is looking dire too at the minute :eek: but at least not overwhelmed by much else as it's in a pot. I'm assuming it'll sprout up at some warmer point! Good discount on your shopping too :j

I've just been for a walk too, out to the road and back across the fields. I agree that yes, it is beautiful out there today - but yes, it is FREEZING :eek: Still, it made the house seem much warmer when I got back in :rotfl: And I helped myself stay a tiny bit toasty by taking a cuppa out with me in a travel mug

Aiming for a winter break is a great plan :j We need to aim for a holiday this year - we went to visit a friend in Berlin for 3 days in 2017, but other than that haven't been away since we went to Wales for a fortnight in 2015 :eek: Moving house has taken its toll on both finances and energy levels :eek: This summer though... :j

beanielou

Bargain on the £1 delivery

Hazelnutty

Third that on the winter break. OH and I don't have DD for Christmas this year so am really wanting to not be at home or around normal Christmassy things without her. On the one hand I'd like to go somewhere non-Christmassy and warm but then you have the stress of flight cancellations etc So maybe just a UK hideaway...

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Excellent work today! :j :j My lemon balm is looking dire too at the minute :eek: but at least not overwhelmed by much else as it's in a pot. I'm assuming it'll sprout up at some warmer point! Good discount on your shopping too :j

Thanks Cheery it always seems to look like it's died, but its never been invaded by grass before. Needed regular weeding, I guess. I'll work at it, its worth it.

I've just been for a walk too, out to the road and back across the fields. I agree that yes, it is beautiful out there today - but yes, it is FREEZING :eek: Still, it made the house seem much warmer when I got back in :rotfl: And I helped myself stay a tiny bit toasty by taking a cuppa out with me in a travel mug

Fields and a travel mug! omg, that sounds like bliss :j but even colder than round here! And I agree, the house feels a lot warmer when you come in from something like that :rotfl:

Aiming for a winter break is a great plan :j We need to aim for a holiday this year - we went to visit a friend in Berlin for 3 days in 2017, but other than that haven't been away since we went to Wales for a fortnight in 2015 :eek: Moving house has taken its toll on both finances and energy levels :eek: This summer though... :j

It does, doesn't it - for you, you worked hard at getting the house to a good sale position, and now you've got a huge property to work with. With me, its ordinary sized but recovering from neglect. And now, there's definitely space for biggish edible things to get planted, got to start planning that. Holidays ... mmmm .... I mean, I'm not doing badly: Kent in May, Essex in June, I suspect Malta later on. Its just, thats three sets of people I know now who've been/ are going away twice since Christmas, I kid you not: Portugal/Madeira, Madeira/Athens, Florence/Tenerife. Maybe second half of April, I'll just take off on my own, I'd really like to do that. We'll see.

beanielou wrote: »

Bargain on the £1 delivery

It was, beanie - I always get the £1 delivery slots. There aren't many, but they're there.

WM has finished, I left a phone message for my brother, and I've done a bit of scanning. I even managed to dunk the baby spider plants into some soil :j very pleased with that. Still got to do the aloe vera, but thats life.