Travelling On

Karmacat

themadvix wrote: »

No, nothing is going ka-blooey, thank you! I need my European clients to pay me!

Sorry madvix! I'm probably overthinking that, but I remember the days of currency controls, just before we came in to the Common Market, as it was then - I suppose they *couldn't* bring that back straight away, but I was also slightly worried about the potential chaos. Temporarily sorted for now, anyway.

We have raspberry canes that I planted last year - no sign of them taking over yet, not that it would bother me - can't have too many rasps! That said, I know the ones at my Dad's don't share well with the strawbs!

I won't have strawbs here, too much looking after the runners, so thats fine - I love bonne maman strawberry jam but give me HM raspberries for the fresh fruit any day

Exciting to have dates all set for your work to be done! :j

It's starting to get real, that much is true :rotfl: Excitement is a goal as I know I react badly to constant workmen at least I can hide upstairs, none of them will need to come upstairs.

apple_muncher wrote: »

Yes, I'm sure!

Thank you :j Shall I pm you my address or do you need more time, considering the dentist and cs bags and whatnot?

apple_muncher

PM me your address. I have just dug up some runners for you and they're in a jiffy bag that's awaiting an address...:D And I'll be by a PO later on.

Karmacat

You have a pm, Apple

Karmacat

I've been out in the garden, victorious against the forces of entropy :rotfl:Weeding the two foot wide border in the front - about six square feet done and topsoil plus bark mulch on there. Bit slaphappy with some of the weeds, but thats a good bit done.

In the back garden, I dared to open the brick shed _pale_ which I still loathe, but it was fine. There's a dozen lengths of wood I was keeping in the kitchen, weirdly, to use as a haybox project, but I got by without them, so they went on a shelf with nothing else on. Pushed stuff away from the door so that I can actually use one of my kitchen cabinets in there. Soil that was still bagged up and sitting by the kitchen door is now waiting to be used outside in the garden, where it should be.

Everything's starting to be in the right place and it makes me very happy

badmemory

themadvix wrote: »

No, nothing is going ka-blooey, thank you! I need my European clients to pay me!

Unfortunately, I don't think people remember how hard it used to be to pay a foreign company or indeed how difficult receiving a payment was. It won't just be the transport problems that cause difficulties but I've seen no mention of the financial transaction problems anywhere!

Karmacat

badmemory wrote: »

Unfortunately, I don't think people remember how hard it used to be to pay a foreign company or indeed how difficult receiving a payment was. It won't just be the transport problems that cause difficulties but I've seen no mention of the financial transaction problems anywhere!

When Thatcher loosed currency controls soon after coming to power, I was working for the Export Finance Section of a leasing organisation (me and two older guys) and the very oldest guy was a wide boy in a suit, so it got shut down. I was kept on to do the shutting down, and the unravelling I had to do on some of his deals was amazing.

One time, a director called me in to explain why a big German company (still going today) had sent us a cheque for £7,000 (a lot of money at the time) and wanted us to simply send the same amount on to a third party. Today, you'd think it was avoiding sanctions; I doubt it was an outright bribe, because of the paper trail that was left. I had to tell the director that if anything fishy was going on, we'd have made up a better story

And then there was the Irrevocable Letter of Credit from Nigeria. Long the home of scams: but also the country of the origins of John Boyega, let's not forget. Who is wonderful.

When it comes down to it, science fiction is much more interesting than international finance :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

apple_muncher

Got your pm -tho only after we got back - so will post the packet tomorrow.

Karmacat

Apple, I thought that might have happened, because of when I saw it. Thank you so much for doing it, though! I'll be watching for it.

Karmacat

Morning all well, this weekend's plans have done a runner once again, sadly. Illness. And I'm bejiggered if I'm not doing anything as a substitute., even though my ex-partner isn't responding right now. So once the dishwasher's finished I'm taking a little local train to a local village and pootling about there. Ten minutes on the train, I know how to live but better that than any large towns today, I'm expecting the marches to be all over the place.

apple_muncher

Hope you enjoyed the little local jaunt. Take care.