Travelling On

Karmacat

rtandon27 said:

Hooray for the new PC!  ...and a Monday delivery - hooray only 3 more sleeps

Thank you for the good wishes about the computer, one and all I'm very happy!   I do love my current laptop, a Samsung, but the paint has worn off the keys, and in my zeal to brush dust from the keyboard I pulled off some keypads, oops ... as well as the classic issues of slowing down and Windows 7 and all the rest of it.  Another piece of good computery news is that cable is coming to my street soon - 4 or 5 BT Openreach vans every day have been parading up and down. I honestly think that one of my problems is that my master junction box is inside a cavity wall that got damp in the past, and I'm sure there's currently a problem with it - it may even be the access route for the rats in the attic and I think the junction box gets mould in every now and then.  Impossible to sort that now, of course, and maybe not this year, but it might *have* to be done.  Cable would sort the internet issue, at any rate!

teapot2

Ah yes KC needing to have a walkable distance with a laptop in case of repairs makes sense - we got there in the end  
Good news on the new one and not long to wait either.  Good news re the GC purchases too, we have a newsagents who sell pretty much everything and have a small GC at the back of the shop.  They already did deliveries when you could go in and chose stuff but have really ramped it up since lockdown.  They don't have a website so put piccies up on FB.  Our big GC has started to put plants and stuff online slowly but they charge £5 for delivery unless you order lots so I haven't used them.

Karmacat

themadvix said:

Karma, that's great news about the computer and quick delivery. Good news too about the garden centre delivery - mine has still not got back to me about the order placed last Tuesday - they've been inundated, so I guess I just have to be patient and wait. Bit frustrating though, as no confirmation they've even received it.

Hope your click and collect collection goes smoothly in the morning.

Thanks madvix!  Lack of confirmation would be doing my head in, I must say ... its bad enough thinking of how all this stuff might get through to the back, because the new side gate I had installed is just as bad as the old one, ie it doesn't open.  I'm having a thought experiment of hitting it with a hammer because thats a *lot* of stuff to leave in the front right now, for months.

Delichon said:

I heard somewhere that garden centres might be in the first wave of businesses to be re-opened to personal shoppers but I don't expect it will be yet.  Obviously in your case, KC, without a car and needing heavy stuff like bags of compost and manure an online delivery would always be favourite LOL.  DH needs some greenhouse glass to replace a few panes that were damaged during the early spring gales but I've forbidden him going to B&Q which I think has recently  re-opened. He has underlying health issues and although not on the NHS official 'shielding' list he should be ultra careful.  I'm afraid he's a lot more 'que sera sera' about the whole crisis than me.  My  constant vigilance lest he sneaks off somewhere is doing my head in.

Have a safe, sunny weekend everyone x

You're right, delivery is really the only way forward for me, unless I buy one bag of 10 litres at a time from Poundland (not kidding, they do sell them!).  I feel for you keeping an eye on a blase DH - thats got to be difficult, when you're not on the same page. 

My click and collect went fine again, the same very isolated location, I felt bad walking past all the shoppers queuing to get in, but then again, when I got home, I clicked to see if there were slots available and there were, for every day next week.  And I couldn't stand in a queue for as long as they're doing, it would make me ill.  I can walk for that length of time, slowly, but not stand, its agony.  They had no frozen veg available for me at all today, though; I currently have enough, but I'm going to have to find a solution - I passed a Budgen convenience store by my railway station today, and it was literally empty, at 8am in the morning - that might be a solution. 

The early start has shattered me, so I'll be on here a bit  more today, ha ha - hope everyone is well and has some sunshine to enjoy.

beanielou

It’s the standing I canny dae either. 

It is so blooming painful. 

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Just had to cartwheel onto here to say I've just eaten a couple of toasted slices of the best bread EVER!!!!  I'm a massive fan of granary bread but it's not always available when I order it online.  I've tried some of the seeded breads and find they have a strange taste, almost 'fishy' in some cases.  My search goes on.

Long story not so short, I gave my friend  a good-as-new wok because it has a rounded base and is useless on my ceramic hob.  It just never gets hot enough whereas on a gas hob (like she has) it would probably be OK.  I left it on my doorstep for her to pick up safely  early today on her way home from Morrisons.  She is allowed in to shop as soon as they open in the morning, being a bona fide nurse.  I asked her to pick up a granary loaf for me if they had any (which they didn't!) so she brought a Morrisons The Best  Sunflower and Pumpkin seed one instead. Incidentally, it's vegetarian too, KC. I've never tried that one before and have finally found some bread I absolutely adore.  I can see myself becoming very fat if I'm able to obtain this in any quantity.  Soooo yummy.  Only costs £1 for the 800gm size too.  Best of all she wouldn't accept any money for it, seeing as I'd given her the wok.  Likewise I refused any payment for that as it's useless to me and  was destined for the charity shop whenever they reopen or DH would have used it as yet another water container for the garden birds.

Karmacat

Delichon, how wonderful!  Thats very good news for both of you!  I wonder .... when the big shopping town just north of me opens up again, I could go to the Morrie's there - there's a big Asian store as well, and my sister and I are going to inspect what the big Asda has to offer - we could make a tour of it

Even after doing the clickandcollect this morning, I managed to get out into the garden for a bit this afto - a few more brambles bit the dust, and some of the containers were watered - this hose connection is definitely a good idea if the summer's going to be as dry as this month has been.  I may also have started to tidy the kitchen table

themadvix

Busy day again, Karma - impressive! I hear you on the hose thing, while it’s been lovely to have such good weather when we need something to cheer us up, in reality it’s really quite worrying weather for April. We’ll see... It could chuck it down through May!

Karmacat

Yup, doing what I can: although the wider world is on hold, our own lives aren't, and I want to use this time, so that when the lockdown *does* lift, I don't have to say "oh,I'm behind with the garden, I cant do that thing on that day"!  Mind you, none of the clickandcollect food has been put into the kitchen yet, yikes.

And as for the prospect of rain - I've just seen the Met office prediction for my town - I think this will end by the beginning of May!

themadvix

Yes, I hadn’t seen the weather forecast until I saw weather chat on Woodfired’s thread - looks like this will be the last nice day for a while! 😔

Karmacat

I need to stop using "My bookmarks" for a bit, and get up to date with newer threads