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Cheery_Daff wrote: »

FS just stick your diary *somewhere* and be done with it I put mine on DFW when I returned to MSE a few years back - wasn't in debt but like you knew it was a slippery slope I mostly tend to navigate by the threads I've subscribed to these days anyway so it doesn't really matter where things are

Also as KC says, doesn't matter whether your life is humdrum or exciting! Much as I love to read about other people's jaunts, I also love to read really detailed shopping lists, or an analysis of how people have saved £25 on their house insurance :rotfl: A few months ago I myself wrote out precise details of all SEVENTEEN mortgage fix offers from our building society on my own diary, plus about 12 posts trying to choose between them :rotfl: No idea whether anyone else got anything from reading that, but nobody said anything horrid about it :rotfl:

So get yourself a diary, post whatever you like to keep you on the straight and narrow. Some people just pop in with monthly totals, others waffle on with daily lists and ponderings (like me). All good, it all adds to the community here, and you just don't know who's reading and will see something that will help them, even if it's just a small thing that you've done

Thank you very much for that, Cheery Daff (lovely username by the way:)), and for taking the time and trouble to respond to a newbie on Karmacat's diary:T. Everything you said makes perfect sense to me and I'll go and have a look for your diary as soon as I get the chance. I found Karmacat's diary purely by accident one day, even though I had/have no interest in mortgages as such. Mortgage Free Wannabe seems a bit odd to me for siting my own diary as our mortgage was paid off about 15 years ago:j and we certainly don't plan to size up and get another one at our time of life. Downsizing maybe but that should result in some nice spare cash:j


I just feel there's a very thin line between finally being debt free and slipping back into that miserable state again. I know I've vowed 'never again' but life has a funny habit of scuppering the best laid plans:(.

Karmacat

themadvix wrote: »

Agree with Cheery and Karma, FS - go for it with your diary (and I too navigate by daily subscription emails). (Cheery - I can't say I took in your mortgage comparisons, but you got full points for analysis and effort! )

FS - go for it! We're all agreed :j
I too am mortgage free, but this is the best place for me, and its a lovely place too. I navigate by the User Control Panel, by the way, so when you start your diary, come on here and post the link

Karma - it looks like tickets are still available... now I'm wondering if I should buy them ahead of time... and just tell him to book the day off!

I'd say **yes** to that! It's always dodgy with winter and rail problems and breakdowns and what have you, but you take that risk whenever you book anything really. When are you thinking of buying for?

Karmacat

I had a long lunchbreak, sue me


Spent well over an hour in the garden - pulling away nettles and cutting back brambles. Omigod, some of those brambles are 12 feet long this is the area I worked on last winter but not really since, and even then I didn't dig up the brambles, just cut them right back. Nettle stings are twanging away, I had new, very thick gloves, and they still got inside somehow. I haven't done any of the other stuff, and I have a brilliant idea what to do now: there are approximately a billion packets of quinoa in the kitchen, and I haven't cooked any of them I shall do a few portions right now, I'm kind of hungry!

themadvix

Ouch to the nettle stings! And don't remind me about brambles - it always gets to this time of year and I'm so impressed that you're out in the garden, working away!

I haven't got a clue when to book for. Hmm, will think on that!

Karmacat

themadvix wrote: »

Ouch to the nettle stings! And don't remind me about brambles - it always gets to this time of year and I'm so impressed that you're out in the garden, working away!

I have lots of aloe vera prunings, so I cut open a few leaves, and it does help a bit, so I'll do some more of that. As for being impressive working in the garden - by afternoon, it was *very* mild, I'm really not that wonderful :rotfl:

I haven't got a clue when to book for. Hmm, will think on that!

Thinking about it, it might be best to tell him: he might be going already with a social club/Egyptology association.

Feel free to tell me his itinerary in Egypt Talk about being impressed!

themadvix

Ooh, the aloe vera sounds like a good idea. I had some from a freegler, but DH drowned it

No, Dad won't be going with any groups - I'd've heard about it (although I might have to tell him when he gets back in case he decides to go randomly). Have asked him to provide a couple of dates for Jan - availability looks OK still then. He's going on this trip: https://www.onetraveller.co.uk/tours/cairo-nile-cruise-2019/ - sounds amazing!

Karmacat

What a shame about the aloe vera! I could've met you on the London-Brighton long enough to have given you another plant! Couple of plants ... bear it in mind if you're this way, seriously.

Yes, good idea to tell him anyway. And ooh, that itinerary! Fantastic. And for a single largeish room, and the amount of stuff thats included, thats very good. I'll send my sister a linkie to that site. My Egyptology Association has holidays there every year, but the itineraries are horrendous for someone like me I'm still very conscious of taking care about how much I do.

Had to back out of a rellie's invite to a Thanksgiving Dinner today it's at the end of my catsitting, 3 hours out of London, and takes up the entire time I'd be clearing up and preparing to go home: setting myself up to flog myself is a baaad way to go. Still sad, though.

Anyway, today, it's still beautiful here, though I've just seen the size of the clouds heading my way, which the rest of the country is currently struggling under :eek: which means I need to get out into the garden pronto.

My ta-da list:
- kidney beans boiled for 10 mins and in the slow cooker.
- Pinecone and YG surveys both done.
- SB doing, even though they're playing silly beggars.
- I'm halfway to the end of making myself a knitted Remembrance Day Poppy - I've been having conversations about the paper disposable ones recently, and I'm convinced they'll have to do something different very soon.

I can make a contribution environmentally by knitting my own and re-using it, and just donating in any case. I'll make a white one as well, and wear them both - there's a lot of military in my family, but I've done a lot of voluntary work for a pacifist organisation, and I want a white poppy in remembrance of the civilian deaths too. I need both

Ahem ... the red poppy is kind of magenta but it will do for this year.

themadvix

Karmacat wrote: »

What a shame about the aloe vera! I could've met you on the London-Brighton long enough to have given you another plant! Couple of plants ... bear it in mind if you're this way, seriously.

I have something else in mind for a meet up Karma, don't worry! (Just need to finalise a couple of things to do with my new project ) Ooh, that's mysterious sounding!

Karmacat wrote: »

Yes, good idea to tell him anyway. And ooh, that itinerary! Fantastic. And for a single largeish room, and the amount of stuff thats included, thats very good. I'll send my sister a linkie to that site.

He's not been with this company before but went on another single traveller holiday last year (alright for some!) to Chile. It turns out someone from his work (who he gets along with, fortunately!) is also going on this trip! (Hence I might need to let him know not to go to the exhibition!)

Karmacat wrote: »

Had to back out of a rellie's invite to a Thanksgiving Dinner today it's at the end of my catsitting, 3 hours out of London, and takes up the entire time I'd be clearing up and preparing to go home: setting myself up to flog myself is a baaad way to go. Still sad, though.

That sounds like a wise move, but what a pity.

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm halfway to the end of making myself a knitted Remembrance Day Poppy - I've been having conversations about the paper disposable ones recently, and I'm convinced they'll have to do something different very soon.

I can make a contribution environmentally by knitting my own and re-using it, and just donating in any case. I'll make a white one as well, and wear them both - there's a lot of military in my family, but I've done a lot of voluntary work for a pacifist organisation, and I want a white poppy in remembrance of the civilian deaths too. I need both

I have a red knitted one, not that I made it myself, and donate every year. Totally agree that they need to do something about it. I had to explain my aversion to single-use plastics to the man selling poppies - he wanted me to buy my niece a plasticy zip attachment thing for her coat. He was fine once I'd explained, but surely... aren't people getting this yet?!! Arrgh! (Sorry, rant over! :rotfl: )

Karmacat

Yay for a meet, mysterious and exciting :j new projects too :j

Your dad went to Chile? Wow! Between the scenery and the different cultures and the space telescopes ... thats quite a destination

I'm really teed off about missing the Thanksgiving thing - I didn't know they still celebrated it, but since two of the tribe were American born, it makes sense.

My poppy, I've done the stitches reduction, just got to cast off now, then sew a button on and find a biiiig safety pin. That really didn't take long, but red would've been better :rotfl:. Not going to do that now - I think we've escaped the rain altogether, but I don't want to put 100% trust in that I'm off out into the garden again.

themadvix

That's really rubbish about Thanksgiving - could you video call them (say she, who hates video calls!), or is it more the whole experience that you'd've liked to enjoy?

Chile was wow - the photos were amazing, although no space telescopes that I recall.

Will let you know more about a meet soon!