Travelling On

Karmacat

Definitely ticked one item on the big 50 point list :j I've made a nutloaf. I've made two, actually :rotfl: I kind of merged two recipes, I *think* it was successful, though it nearly wasn't: I fried mushrooms and onions first off but forgot to add them to the main mix till the very last moment. As a result, the "mixing" isn't too good :rotfl: but I will absolutely *not* be making another one. This one was supposed to be a trial. Well, it is, but not in the way I meant :rotfl: Prior planning meant things went fairly well, but I wish I'd remembered I have a socking great mixing bowl there was a bit of making-do that wasn't really needed. I'm looking forward to tasting what I've made. I am, honestly :cool:

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Goldiegirl has just posted a kind of retrospective of her year on her diary. Made me think ... last summer was a turning point for me. After all the disruption of the first few years of *actual* retirement, I felt like I was ready to say "I'm retired", and to mean what people usually mean by that, that I've stopped work and I'm ready to go out and have some fun. I suppose the last line of my sig shows that turning point, the kitchen being fitted!

I know exactly what you mean! The first couple of years of my retirement seemed like very hard work. I felt like I was doing 'admin' the entire time. It was like wading through treacle some days :rotfl: In retrospect, I made it worse for my self, as I was logging and recording tiny details. I made a rod for my own back, really.


I like your plan for 2020. It's a nice mix of things, which will enhance your life. Very suitable for a person who is now fully enjoying retirement.

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Its this one, FS https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6077948/20-20s-for-2020 it didn't start out as a challenge, more like a diary, but lots of people liked the sound of it and joined in, and when cross rabbit mentioned it, I liked the sound of it too.

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I've just had a look at that thread. It's a novel idea, and I think most people could tailor it to their own lives. It could be described as a '2020 Vision'

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I know exactly what you mean! The first couple of years of my retirement seemed like very hard work. I felt like I was doing 'admin' the entire time. It was like wading through treacle some days :rotfl: In retrospect, I made it worse for my self, as I was logging and recording tiny details. I made a rod for my own back, really.

Thanks for this, good to know. I think I know what you mean about logging tiny details - I was keeping minute details of day to day stuff on my phone, as *well* as this diary crazy. All deleted now.

I think the most important thing for me is to use the time: whether that means lots of admin, or experimenting in the house or with cookery or craftwork or exercise, or even just slobbing and relaxing and doing nothing. Not nagging at myself with a "should", I'll survive, and now its all about standards of living. Not beating myself up is part of that.

I like your plan for 2020. It's a nice mix of things, which will enhance your life. Very suitable for a person who is now fully enjoying retirement.

Exactly :j:j:j

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I've just had a look at that thread. It's a novel idea, and I think most people could tailor it to their own lives. It could be described as a '2020 Vision'

I like that the things I wrote on the previous page of this diary tie in quite well to the 2020 things I'm listing - just a little exercise to help me balance my life, thats all

Off to your thread to have a looksee.

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Goldiegirl wrote: »

I've just had a look at that thread. It's a novel idea, and I think most people could tailor it to their own lives. It could be described as a '2020 Vision'

I've just had a look too. Thanks KC for pointing us towards it:T


I agree, Goldiegirl about being able to tailor it and I'll be giving some serious thought to trying to devise something suitable for me before the bells ring out on New Year's Eve.


I've already sort of made a commitment (if only to myself) to read 100 books next year. It's not part of the Good Reads challenges, just one of my own. I'm an avid reader and can certainly get through that amount rather than the 20 suggested in the challenge. Maybe 20 a month rather than the whole year would be a bit excessive even for me:rotfl: .


I skimmed through the list as I was in a hurry and dismissed the '20 Topless Drives' as definitely something I wouldn't be risking:eek: even though I live in the countryside without much immediate traffic. Then I saw that she meant the car can be topless not her:rotfl:

apple_muncher

Hope you didn't get soggy today, karma. Tis a quagmire out there!

Karmacat

apple_muncher wrote: »

Hope you didn't get soggy today, karma. Tis a quagmire out there!

Not soggy, but saw a shocking amount of flooding - grids in the road still burbling away, couple of teenagers (in dressing gowns? huh?) watching, so we chatted. The disturbing thing was that at least half a dozen drivers pushed the traffic cones to the sides of the roads, and drove through the flood. A fairly small flood, admittedly, but a culvert that goes under the road has collapsed, which can't be seen by the drivers, and they don't know how dangerous it is - the stream the culvert carries is about twelve feet down.

Nutloaf is edible :j and I used Jack Monroe's alternative idea of marmalade, not cranberry :rotfl: since I had 2 jars of marmalade and no cranberries :rotfl: it wasn't identical, but it was similar

Haven't discovered how to tune the little radio instructions don't work, but thats for another day, I think.

Today: wrapping presents, hopefully a chat with bruvver, but first of all sweeping the floor, since thats where the presents will be wrapped :rotfl:

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I'm glad the nutloaf turned out well:T. I often think recipes where I have to improvise with ingredients turn out really well and possibly more to our taste than the original;)


Drivers who ignore warning signs on floods and just drive through are very foolhardy:mad:. Like you said, they don't know what lies beneath what they can see and water in the engine can make a car totally undriveable and even have to be written off:eek:. I knew someone this happened to and they always maintain that they know that road very well and never thought that particular 'dip' could hold such a damaging depth of water.

Suffolk_lass

Shocking amounts of water here since Thursday. The B Road we live nearest has a number of road-width "puddles" - as FC suggests, they don't know if the road has been washed away or a suspension-damaging pot-hole has been exposed. There is always the wash to think about too - we lived (in our last house) uphill of a road where others arrogantly driving down too fast - it meant all the houses on the lower side were flooded at ground and basement levels.

All the water meadows adjacent to the river in the valley are completely underwater and are doing their job where the river has burst its banks all along the Vales. And mercifully the ponies and cattle have been moved and the salt-marsh sheep have higher ground they can wait on, until the level subsides. We are fortunate that there is some residual planning department understanding of the phrases "flood plain" and "water meadow" as it means the gradual and relentless expansion of the town has not been permitted to build houses on these (yet).

Karmacat

Hello both :hello: just been on my healthy walk run by the council, and the farm attached to the local school has a pond where a field used to be fortunately, the barns for the animals are much higher. There's a stream right by thsi pond, but the ground is so waterlogged, nothing's happening.

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

There is always the wash to think about too - we lived (in our last house) uphill of a road where others arrogantly driving down too fast - it meant all the houses on the lower side were flooded at ground and basement levels.

I never thought about wash in those terms, just in terms of how soaked I've been as a pedestrian! Those poor people!

All the water meadows adjacent to the river in the valley are completely underwater and are doing their job where the river has burst its banks all along the Vales. And mercifully the ponies and cattle have been moved and the salt-marsh sheep have higher ground they can wait on, until the level subsides. We are fortunate that there is some residual planning department understanding of the phrases "flood plain" and "water meadow" as it means the gradual and relentless expansion of the town has not been permitted to build houses on these (yet).

Oh my ... the nature reserve I walk through to get to my walking space is a (small) flood plain. Even on a normal year, there's frogspawn in the grass :rotfl: there's been a lot of infill building here since I moved in, but nothing encroaching on easily flooded areas, new estates have only been build considerably uphill from watercourses.

I'm off out for the early evening, unusually - a local National Trust property is holding a twilight thing, finishes at 6.30. It's a longish trek home, but worth it I hope!