Travelling On

Karmacat

Ooh, the Harrod items look wonderful quality - and so flexible.  Thanks for that, greenbee.  Might be more than I want to pay, to be honest, £181 for 2 foot by 6 foot, including a tenner for delivery.  Sleepers would be a lot cheaper than that.  But you've reminded me about the need for lining, and I can certainly do that.

SL - thats important about the ants - I must say, my garden is *riddled* with ants.  I'm stopping them getting into the house (I think) but they're all over the garden, and I've found a kind of hill (hillock, really) a foot high, in the middle of these brambles I'm cutting   but you can't not put structures in your garden, can you    Good advice too about being able to reach to the middle.  I'd like the three foot wide ones, but I'll check that I can cope with that width (18" reach) before I order them.

Bro won't get down here again, by the way - he's responsible for driving/ shopping for three other households besides his own, two of which have dementia sufferers and the other of which has young children (some of his grandchildren). 

Concrete gravel boards!  Very interesting - I had to google them, oops, but I've seen them underneath a wooden fence at a friend's house, so at least I know what they actually are.  Thats a very good idea!  In fact, I'll confess a part of the plan - one of my raised beds is going to be made from gubbins that's around the place already - there are lots of bricks in the garden - a couple of dozen at least - plus a concrete post support, they could make the preliminary layer for a raised bed.  On top of that, I have some solid wood slats from an old double bed, if it needed two layers they could be joined together by a batten inside.  That would certainly give height!

And I've just remembered what else I have - an old table top, 2nd hand in the 1940s ... I gave Wol (from on here) the frame to help with her own raised bed issues, I used the leaves as shelves in the cubbyhole by my current back door, and the main bit of the table is hiding under my bed, waiting for something to do. 

So making one raised bed is actually a form of decluttering   but I'm certainly going to take on board the whole height issue, thank you all for that.  I love this community 

Karmacat

Cheery, thanks for that.  Yes, I wanted a plan that gave me a chance of doing most of it - though I haven't even mentioned the time it takes to declutter, or the craft work (though masks are craft work, actually, and I want to make some birthday cards too).  I hadn't really thought of Christmas either, but a four month plan actually includes it    the netting for raised beds that greenbee mentions is also a craft project that I already have the materials for (good lord, my house is **stuffed** full of stuff!). 

I'll be listing the individual finance items that are to-do in a separate post - probably tomorrow, I'm quite tired after all the sawing laurel I've been doing.  Enjoying pootling today

greenbee

apple_muncher said:

greenbee said:

 I lined the bottom with wee depressant fabric

Tee hee

😂 don’t you just love auto correct...

Suffolk_lass

apple_muncher said:

greenbee said:

 I lined the bottom with wee depressant fabric

Tee hee

Oh me too - I love that, really made me laugh!

Karmacat

Yep, forgot to mention that one

beanielou

Do you ever hear from Wol? 

Karmacat

I don't hear from her, beanie, no - she moved away, and in any case became even more involved in the guinea pig rescue.  She rescued me at a bad time, I'll always be really grateful to her for that.

Very tired today, after all that sawing up of laurel logs over the weekend. So I'm doing absolutely nothing physical today or tomorrow – to the extent that i've postponed my Asda delivery to next week. I can scrape things along till then, and it means I have the physical oomph to go out a local walk with my sister on Thursday – a planned walk you can buy via paypal for 50p and print out to take with you, its a good idea.

Computery things to do today: pay for niece's birthday pressie, cook some food, do the monthly finances transfer, pay credit card (oof, I might have acquired a penalty on that, its the one I haven't put onto automatic), download some statements.

The first thing from the finance list I need to do is get that 2nd card onto automatic and paperless – probably not today, to be honest.

Karmacat

I've paid for the pressie, and I was about to pay for the cc, and found out luckily that I'm in credit - with all the online buying, sometimes there are big refunds that mean the account goes into credit, so I'm lucky there.  The only absolute necessity now is to transfer *in* to the bank account so the rewards come my way.  I may still cook something

Karmacat

Christmas issues have raised their heads - I'm invited to Christmas lunch with nephew and niece in law where I catsit - my sister will drive there and back, and I'd stay with her the night before.  She'd drop me back at my house on the way back.  Sis has already said it's contingent on day to day: lockdown, individual health/symptoms, etc.  I've said yes, on that basis.  It's very generous of them to include me so regularly .... just don't know what's right at the moment for health and safety on a personal level.  As my sister says, day by day decisions.

beanielou

How lovely. 

I agree on day to day decisions