Travelling On

rtandon27

Wow KC - you have earned a good sit down & feet up today - whatever cleaning demon possessed you is welcome to mine on Saturday, there are a couple of floors that need a deep clean & it's not my favorite chore!

PS - I mentioned to the boss you were sure to mention first world problems about my moaning - he's going to be surprised I didn't get a full telling off - ROFL

themadvix

They may be first world problems, but that’s where we live and even if we’re relatively personally untouched by the health crisis, we’re all having to cope in very trying times... we should be kind to ourselves! (Love the fact that you report to your boss about Karma, RT!)

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My Sainsbo order came as expected and most of what I ordered was there or some very acceptable substitutes were sent instead.  I'm over the moon because this time I actually received a lovely free range chicken.  Haven't seen one for yonks and I never accept a substitute for them  as we only eat free range ones.  There's obviously been a shortage although I wouldn't have expected  the chickens to have been in lockdown LOL.  No granary bread arrived but it never does these days.  The fresh veg is perfect and everything in the order has a good long 'best by' date.  Oh, I didn't receive any eggs either which seems to be par for the course with so many people home-baking at the moment.  My SIL says she can't get flour anywhere these days.

Have decided to cancel the Morries order as apart from eggs and the granary bread the rest of it is largely duplicates of what came today  or  'wants' rather than 'needs'.  I don't know about anyone else but I'm spending a LOT more on grocery shopping since the Covid-19 situation turned our lives upside down.  I'm not stockpiling, honest guv,  but am tending to buy what i can get when I can get it rather than my old practice of saving the pennies by shopping around at different supermarkets and street markets.

Well done on your cleaning marathon, KC.  You've certainly put me to shame.  All I seemed to do today was a lot more staring at things that needed doing and then ignoring them.

rtandon27

themadvix said:

...(Love the fact that you report to your boss about Karma, RT!)

To be fair madvix, I told him about being online and "moaning to friends" about my grocery woes - lol - didn't actually mention KC by name ROFL - I then said one of my friends would be sure to remind me of my first world problems

At the moment my daily meetings with him are via e-mail & telephone and our weekly bi-lat is via whichever online meeting app we happen to be testing out..

rtandon27

Delichon said:

...I'm spending a LOT more on grocery shopping since the Covid-19 situation turned our lives upside down...

Totally with you there Delichon - Shopping for us, shopping for the neighbours & shopping for my mom across the pond, it's non-stop!

(Still can't figure out the multi-quote thing!)

Karmacat

Norty RT I used the phrase the way madvix describes   but you got me good there Let me further expound my own first world problems my describing the mess I made of myself emptying the new vacuum cleaner - I shouldn't have let it pick up a piece of tissue paper, I had to delve into the nethermost recesses of the body of the thing.  It would possibly help tor read the instructions 

themadvix said:

They may be first world problems, but that’s where we live and even if we’re relatively personally untouched by the health crisis, we’re all having to cope in very trying times... we should be kind to ourselves! (Love the fact that you report to your boss about Karma, RT!)

RT, for the multi quote, just press the quote button of each post you want to quote - it will appear like magic, given a moment or two to collect itself

Delichon thats great that your order was pretty much full - I managed to get some eggs on that first Collect slot I had, so I haven't tried for any this time.   And no shame required on the cleaning - the piece of floor that *I'm* sort of ashamed of, hasn't been cleaned for something like two years.  Its not real shame, but its "why I don't let guests use that bathroom", gulp.  I wonder if I really want to have written that down?  Too late now!

Anyway, I was out for the clapping, after a good long relaxation, all neighbours present and correct, which is good to know.  Bit tired now ... bed is good.  Bed is comfy.  Nighty night

rtandon27

nighty night KC - sleep well xx

teapot2

 Teapot, I love JL dearly, but its the walking-to-the-shops thing again - I have a Curry's I can walk to, whereas JL is either two trains to a small one, or my lovely one at Oxford Circus. 

Ah I wasn't thinking you should go for click and collect particularly to Central London eek, I meant home delivery x

teapot2

Karmacat said:

*Huge* sense of accomplishment today - though I've not done anything from the tentative list I made a few days ago.  What I *have* done, is put the hot water on at 9.30 this morning which is extremely rare when I'm not planning a shower,  and cleaned almost everything in the kitchen at waist height - the surfaces, the chopping boards sitting waiting for me, the old bottle of Stardrops somebody recommended as being useful in "extreme" hygiene situations (!), the little frying pan, the big roasting tin, the sink and draining board.  Plus hoovered the living room and the stairs.

Still haven't mopped the vinyl or the ceramic tiles (and there's a lot - its everywhere except the stairs) and there's one place that I still class as "shameful" but it now looks 100% more like a normal home.  I'm really, really pleased.  The only other thing I need to do today is get all the rubbish in the bin for tomorrow, including the vac cleaner contents and the dried weeds sitting on the grass outside.  I'm going to do nothing else to safeguard against the chronic !!!!!! that interrupts me oh so inconveniently.  I may celebrate by actually having a shower  

Well done on all the cleaning, great effort.  Hope you had a refreshing shower after that lot

Suffolk_lass

themadvix said:

They may be first world problems, but that’s where we live and even if we’re relatively personally untouched by the health crisis, we’re all having to cope in very trying times... we should be kind to ourselves! (Love the fact that you report to your boss about Karma, RT!)

I regularly read bits on here to DH while he is in the next room having his breakfast. In fact yesterday he might have been dragged in to see the croissants someone posted a picture of. He is going shopping today and there they are, on the list (along with chicken, added after reading this thread!)