Travelling On

beanielou

Blimey. That seems an auful lot for the tilling.

themadvix

Just catching up Karma.... ouch to the tiling labour cost... alright for some!

Goldiegirl

Hi there, I read a week or two ago that you finally had your house back after your kitchen works. It must feel great to finally get it all done.

We are currently in the stage of having our house over-run, as our bathroom re-fit started last Thursday. The room has been completely gutted, lots of plumbing work has been done, and plasterer has been in today.

The whole thing is going to take just over three weeks, as we are having the cloakroom done as well.

The worst thing is all we can do is sit around, we can't go very far. Still the weather isn't brilliant, so I don't feel we are missing out too much on days out.

It'll all be worth it when its done, and time has a habit of passing quickly

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Not sure about kindle back up but my phone uses the charger to connect to the phone and the USB plug-in to connect to a PC and copies everything I have stored on it across. I do rely on my Google account for my contacts now though, and anything I download to the phone I add to my google drive as a back-up.

Thanks SL! I'm used to using the charger lead to download/backup the camera, and the phone pictures, but not the whole thing. I'll experiment with that, thanks, thats worth knowing.

Our local hardware store used to sell these (link) but everyone seems to want extendable or electronic tennis racquet style zappers1 these days.

Nope, what you've linked to is *exactly* what I was looking for

I hope you are not feeling grumpy today

Yes and no :eek::p:o

beanielou wrote: »

Blimey. That seems an auful lot for the tilling.

themadvix wrote: »

Just catching up Karma.... ouch to the tiling labour cost... alright for some!

Hiya! Yep, if it was just for those two hours, I'd be ... grumpy again ... but although he's called it the tiling, I think (hope, desperately and forever) that it was the other stuff too.

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Hi there, I read a week or two ago that you finally had your house back after your kitchen works. It must feel great to finally get it all done.

It does, it really does and one set of the nicest things that I'm now using, that have just been stored away, are a couple of "table mats" I bought at a market in Barcelona about 15 years ago. It was when they were cutting down their dying cork trees - the "mats" are simply a cross section of a cork tree, complete with cork still, and they cost one euro. Beautiful, even though sad.

We are currently in the stage of having our house over-run, as our bathroom re-fit started last Thursday. The room has been completely gutted, lots of plumbing work has been done, and plasterer has been in today.

The whole thing is going to take just over three weeks, as we are having the cloakroom done as well.

The worst thing is all we can do is sit around, we can't go very far. Still the weather isn't brilliant, so I don't feel we are missing out too much on days out.

It'll all be worth it when its done, and time has a habit of passing quickly

Oh my! You *know* I know how you feel! Yes, not wanting to stray too far from the work is a problem, isn't it. I was probably better placed than you, because they didn't come upstairs at all, so I still had privacy up there. Great that you're on to plastering - thats a long way through the process.

teapot2

Ouch to the bill for the labour costs but as you say it will hopefully cover other work as well.

Hope you have a better sleep tonight but good you were able to waken up later this morning

Karmacat

Morning! I'm starting to get my act together again - surprisingly good sleep, considering the weather, but I'll take it

Today, hmmm:
- check the current account, that the double-debited-cheques are rectified.
- history group of U3A this morning, hurray, I can go!
- weeding - hasn't been done for almost a week, which means the parts that needed it last week are now a jungle.

If its raining too badly - either open the post (which needs doing anyway, for the post and for the porch) or clean upstairs, that's not finished, not by a long chalk. I want to go out on Thursday, as I'm going out on Saturday and I need a day between, but some work has to be done today. Wish me luck :beer:

Karmacat

Right, I'm posting this here and on the 2019 growing thread ... I haven't been devoting enough time to clearing and planting the garden I've been out there for half an hour or so just now, and I've pulled out armfuls, maybe ten armfuls, of weeds and grass, some of them two feet high, the rest three feet or more (especially the nettles). And its only a normal suburban garden, 35 feet long, the width of the house (no garage to add to the width). I've got to do better - I never get to the stage where I can plant, especially not seeds, because I'm forever clearing weeds.

So this is the pledge: I'm going away some time around mid September for a week (already turned down the chance of a week in Scotland in July, I was sensing things were getting on top of me), and I want this intense phase finished by then:
1. weeds cleared.
2. roots dug up.
3. bagged topsoil applied.
4. garlic that I managed to plant last year to be rescued (some of it has drowned).
5. garden centre plants planted.
6. bags of bark chippings applied.

I can't let it go on like this, its crazy. The plants I *have* planted are doing their things: the soft fruit, the herbs, one of the comfreys, its good. Just got to let the rest have their life in the sun.

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

It does, it really does and one set of the nicest things that I'm now using, that have just been stored away, are a couple of "table mats" I bought at a market in Barcelona about 15 years ago. It was when they were cutting down their dying cork trees - the "mats" are simply a cross section of a cork tree, complete with cork still, and they cost one euro. Beautiful, even though sad.

It's so nice to be able to use things and get some enjoyment from them because you can access them, rather than have them stuck away in a box somewhere.

Oh my! You *know* I know how you feel! Yes, not wanting to stray too far from the work is a problem, isn't it. I was probably better placed than you, because they didn't come upstairs at all, so I still had privacy up there. Great that you're on to plastering - thats a long way through the process.

It's not too bad at the moment, as we have the lounge and dining room to ourselves. Work seems to be proceeding well, but I'm hoping they will finish for the day soon as its a bit noisy with the drilling and banging

So this is the pledge: I'm going away some time around mid September for a week (already turned down the chance of a week in Scotland in July, I was sensing things were getting on top of me), and I want this intense phase finished by then

Intense is a good word for it. It's the feeling of wanting to get things done, then you can get on with enjoying things

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

It's not too bad at the moment, as we have the lounge and dining room to ourselves. Work seems to be proceeding well, but I'm hoping they will finish for the day soon as its a bit noisy with the drilling and banging

I get where you're coming from

Intense is a good word for it. It's the feeling of wanting to get things done, then you can get on with enjoying things

And *you* get where *I'm* coming from! That's exactly it, wanting this intense phase finished so I can get on with enjoying things.

I went out again after I'd typed that pledge: I got everything that I'd done over to the bins, and did more on the front border too. It's very windy right now, weirdly, so I'm going to just go out for a few minutes to breathe and get some of the house recycling out of the way (with the tidying I did yesterday, the in-house container is smaller - and rubbish should be out of the house in any case).