Travelling On

Karmacat

I'm sure you did the right thing, FS - and make sure your OH knows there's a potential scam going on. Have you still got the number? Make a note of it, dialling 1471 if necessary. You could do a search for the number? Not sure if that would achieve anything, but if its a legit firm, you could ring them, and if its not ... well, I don't know, I guess you know to be much more on your guard I wonder if trading standards have a part to play? Maybe someone else knows more ... good luck.

themadvix

Nan certainly does have some very old ones... and I think it'll be muggins here who does the scanning! :eek:

That sounds very iffy FS - good decision to put the phone down!

apple_muncher

We have a gazillion photos that are currently sorted into 'dad' and 'mum' sides of the family.


And then we have the double gazillion slides. I went through them all and separated the 'close family' from 'people' from 'places/scenery' and kept any that had something written on the slide surround. Then big sis said that she also wanted to go through them... Sigh... So now she has just under a double gazillion slides, no slide-viewer, and her eyes aren't good enough to look at them using a pale screen on her phone to look at them...


Double sigh!

teapot2

Karmacat wrote: »

Thanks teapot! Taking landscape is fair enough, of course, when its for your own use - I have lots and lots (and lots) of my own. In the early days, I bought a lot of postcards too, because in the days of film, you were never sure how your own photos were going to turn out. But somebody else's landscapes, on mostly fuzzy 1980s quality paper, its just not doing it for us :rotfl:

Today, here's the list:
- supermarket delivery 3 - 4 pm.
- contact my friend on the coast, I'm supposed to be seeing him tomorrow.
- get the rubbish out of the house, collection is Friday morning, and needs to be done today if I'm out tomorrow. This includes some cleaning
- get the washing machine on.
- tax papers: I know what old stuff can be thrown, what new stuff needs to go into storage, and I need to collect the French papers ready to do the French declaration.

That'll do

My trouble is that though I do recognise some landscape photos I took, there are lots of generic sunsets or generic hills and fields with fluffy clouds so won't be keeping them

Busy day, hope you get through it all or as much as you need to.

Karmacat

Hiya I did most of it, actually, the tax papers were sorted but not put away, and there were a few escapees from this year's tax that haven't ben rehomed yet. All in all, really good, plus I finally have clean hair. Quite stressed about the friend staying with me in March, who's written a postcard about arrangements that I simply can't read - I've emailed her, and asked her to email stuff like that should be okay.

I really need to get my act together about the computer - it randomly switches itself off half a dozen times a day - the keyboard is mechanically falling to pieces, it's incredibly slow, and Windows 7 isn't supported any more. I know the latter isn't supposed to make any difference but it's only a matter of time, and when the computer's in so much trouble anyway, I think I'd better bite the bullet.

Feeling quite stressed - probably because I'm off to the coast today to meet up with a mate, and worried about my hyper-social, hyper-physically-connected friend staying with me just when the coronavirus is probably going to be here

Karmacat

Better day today - lovely afternoon in the city-by-the-sea, and I popped into PCWorld, and was surprised to get 20 minutes of non-condescending, very informative detail on chromebooks, which I've completely ignored till now. They don't have enough local storage themselves, but they have cloud storage - and of course I still have my external disc drive, my flash drives (and my phone and my expanded kindle). More research needed, my flash computer nephew is going to do some research for me on Sunday, we'll see.

Today - start on the French accounts, I think, and carry on juggling other existing projects - if the weather's at all tolerable, cut down a bit of cherry laurel, I did nothing the last two weeks, and I think I felt so bad yesterday because I haven't been outdoors enough. Always takes precedence.

Onwards and upwards.

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Glad you received some useful advice at PCWorld, KC:T. I stopped going to my nearest branch because the young men (I never saw a female advisor/salesperson in there:() always seemed so patronising and disdainful. I was too embarrassed to ask what I needed to know:o


The trip to the coast sounds good too. I wouldn't mind feeling the sea-breezes myself although we get more than our share of normal breezes out here. We live about as far from the sea as it's possible to be, given that this is an island:rotfl:


You often mention your French apartment. Have you had many stays there or do you tend to rent it out? Will things change after Brexit is all done and dusted?

Karmacat

Finally_Solvent wrote: »

Glad you received some useful advice at PCWorld, KC:T. I stopped going to my nearest branch because the young men (I never saw a female advisor/salesperson in there:() always seemed so patronising and disdainful. I was too embarrassed to ask what I needed to know:o

I know what you mean, all too well - same with my local branch. I get embarrassed about stuff like that if I connect with them, but "patronising and disdainful" makes me furious, absolutely raging - I have to keep a careful hold on that!

The trip to the coast sounds good too. I wouldn't mind feeling the sea-breezes myself although we get more than our share of normal breezes out here. We live about as far from the sea as it's possible to be, given that this is an island:rotfl:

I'm about ten miles from the sea currently, the farthest away I've lived, except for 4 years in Oxfordshire when I was a student. To be able to see the sea is really important to me

You often mention your French apartment. Have you had many stays there or do you tend to rent it out? Will things change after Brexit is all done and dusted?

I usually mention it with a swear word in my head Erm, I never stay there, ever. To be honest, I've never even seen it. It was bought under a scheme run by the French government, called a Leaseback, where they let you off the VAT if you held it for 20 years and rented it out to holidaymakers through a given company. I bought it when I was really well off, and wanted a second income without any hassle. I never costed it properly, and believed what I was told, hence my money woes over the last 15 years. Other leaseback owners are trying to sue the French government for misrepresentation, thats how wonderful it's not.


I've realised, now that the mortgage is finally paid off, that the same sort of money I had to send out there every year (I had to send about £3k a year) is actually currently being paid in to my French bank account - and if that rental scheme continues (I think the current scheme has about 5 years to go) then its okay for now. It will never make a profit, but I may recoup maybe half of my losses. We'll see. I don't think currency controls are coming back in - London is too important as a finance market - but we'll see.

Karmacat

Today, I'm having a quiet freakout - it's hitting home to me that I've said yes to someone staying with me for six days!!!! - six days!!!!!!!!! - when actually, the most I can cope with having people in the house is about two hours, and thats recent. She's attending a conference, and won't be here some of the time, maybe half, but I don't think I can hack it. I need help with this, people. It's making me feel sick to think of it

teapot2

Hi KC oh dear that sounds difficult but the fact you are stressing out so early suggests its a complete non starter to have your friend staying for that length of time.

I think for the sake of your health - mental and physical you 'just' need to tell her 'no' and explain why. If she's a good friend she'll understand and if not then do you need that kind of friend in your life?

It sounds like she might be quite far removed from you in the sense that you said she is 'hyper-social and 'hyper-physically connected' and that is not your way of being [thats not an insult or judgement BTW, just that you are different people]. Hopefully she will still be able to understand how life is for you?

:kisses3: xx