Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks for the crossed fingers

Transcribing is definitely a thing, madvix, especially for something thats on a cassette tape - the tapes themselves aren't immortal, and more than one tape of mine has got eaten by a machine that was on the point of giving up the ghost (Bruce Springsteen, The River, I miss you still!).

Changing format to digital of some description would be good too, of course. This isn't my grandad's voice, it's mine - and I've just listened to one letter and I'm not keeping still enough, it's all scratch-bump-boing-crash :rotfl:

That's great that you've got that interview - as WWII recedes into history, it's more and more foreign.

themadvix

I haven't actually listened to the tape yet (not since I made it in year 9!) - it might be terrible quality too! I know what you mean about WWII - I clung on to the family ration books - I think my uncle would have chucked them. But it's so much more removed as history from today's generations - they probably won't have relatives who experienced it to talk to.

Karmacat

Morning charity shop trip went well yesterday. We drove to the centre of my town, figured out how to use the updated pay machine, and made 3 trips to the shop. They still take rags too, which I'd used to protect a matching set of pint glasses. A *lot* of bags left the house and I used the frame of the shopping trolley to transport the box of the Ikea footstool.

We went a very local, hour long walk after that, the main municipal park edges onto a disused farm, the buildings still stand and some are being used to build artisan pergolas and climbing frames which makes me laugh :rotfl:

Today is about cleaning whatever I can that's left, and moving whatever I can that's left, though it's also tricky as I'm supposedly able to use the kitchen till the 23rd. I'm a little apprehensive about how many parcels are arriving on Thursday. Wickes have sent me a video on how to prepare for it, so I'll watch that when my phone's fully charged
:eek:

greent

Glad the CS trip went well and that lots of stuff has now gone to find a new home! xx

Karmacat

Thanks greent! My mind will be easier when the sofa's gone, which should be tomorrow. So, this is the timeline:
Weds, sofa and CD rack to be collected/disposed of.
Thur, Wickes delivery (via Amazon, or maybe by the same delivery service that Amazon use, that's what came up on my phone.
Fri, builder's guys will come round to measure for the steels.

Today, I have:
- done SB, so I didn't have to start on all the kitchen stuff
- DW and MW have both been on.
- last of the food shopping cleaned and away.
- carted cleaning stuff upstairs.
- cooked some beans.

The really urgent thing to do now is clean the bathroom. The floor is indescribably dirty - oh yeah, RT, that *is* about cleaning - I won't let my sister or anyone else see it :o:o I send people to the separate loo, even though that's upstairs. But the builders will need a loo, and it will have to be that one. So it must be cleaned, properly. It'll be easier to keep it clean now, because of that

I can't wait for all this to be finished!

beanielou

Good news on charity shop donations:)
A video on how to get ready. :eek:

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

... The really urgent thing to do now is clean the bathroom. The floor is indescribably dirty - oh yeah, RT, that *is* about cleaning...

Don't worry KC - you are not alone, our floors get like that too! I'm the organizer & tidier - OH is the cleaner now that he's retired... Vacuuming comes a lot easier to him than scrubbing floors & my tolerance/patience is slowly getting greater, so I don't always jump in & rectify the situation!;)

BTW - your flow of chi must be feeling amazing now that all those things have been moved on!:D:D:D

On a totally unrelated note - have just come back from my first intensive neck/nerve physio appt - ouchy ouchy ouchy! Going to look for a microwave heating pad and snuggle under a duvet for the rest of the day! Will find something productive to do on the couch

Karmacat

beanielou wrote: »

A video on how to get ready. :eek:

Mad, isn't it! However, they ask you to provide an area 3m x 2m, which is a lot :eek:

rtandon27 wrote: »

Don't worry KC - you are not alone, our floors get like that too! I'm the organizer & tidier - OH is the cleaner now that he's retired... Vacuuming comes a lot easier to him than scrubbing floors & my tolerance/patience is slowly getting greater, so I don't always jump in & rectify the situation!;)

BTW - your flow of chi must be feeling amazing now that all those things have been moved on!:D:D:D

Aww, thanks RT As for the rest of the ground floor, even the pictures have been taken down, I imagined big fitter guys backing up into glass-fronted pictures and thought, nooooo .... and I do like the look. It doesn't look homely, and I love seeing when other people create a look with lots of "stuff" in it, but I do like the "nothing's there" look as well. Odd.

On a totally unrelated note - have just come back from my first intensive neck/nerve physio appt - ouchy ouchy ouchy! Going to look for a microwave heating pad and snuggle under a duvet for the rest of the day! Will find something productive to do on the couch

That was almost 3 hours ago now, I hope you're back on the couch or under the duvet again, that sounds painful. Microwave pads are wonderful - I have one filled with cherry stones, as well as a wheat one

Shattered now - I rested for quite a while, and realised I was drifting, so I ended up doing lots of little jobs for just over 2 hours :eek: I'm going to shut the computer down in a min, and not doing anything else today, but I'm *really* pleased with what I've done.

beanielou

So you should be pleased with what you have done

earthgirl

Pleased you are pleased. I might have been having a little drift too the past few afternoons, off work and in between side jobs...signed myself to climb a big hill with a friend tomorrow instead!