Travelling On

rtandon27

Karmacat said:

So many bits to do!  

LOL - KC just pick one and then give yourself a big pat on the back once it's done!

Karmacat

So true RT! 

- phoned my partner - his birthday in a few days, he's seeing his sister for only the 3rd time since lockdown. 

- checked the pension: I can do it online, got all the gubbins here with me.

- oops, not got the gubbins to pay the cc

- tidied where I've been decluttering, and tidied the table where I put it all. 

- brought some clothes out of the wardrobe to try on - I suspect all my jeans are goners **blue shrieks**

teapot2

Ooh think I'd be prioritising the pension application - not wishing my life away but can't wait to apply for mine, it will make life a lot easier 😎

beanielou

What's happened to all your jeans? 

Karmacat

teapot2 said:

Ooh think I'd be prioritising the pension application - not wishing my life away but can't wait to apply for mine, it will make life a lot easier 😎

Winter is coming - in my case, December (watching too much Game of Thrones, sorry!).  And it will make life *so* much easier, absolutely.

beanielou said:

What's happened to all your jeans? 

I have a situation where my jeans have stayed the same size, and I've .... expanded, slightly enough to make a difference, anyway.

Not doing anything detailed until Monday - I need to differentiate the days a little bit, otherwise its a blur of jobs.  I *will* continue with the decluttering, its kind of enjoyable - though I need to try on clothes I haven't worn in ages, and I'll probably need a shower after that.  Dusty

rtandon27

KC - I was inspired by your decluttering efforts & applied the mojo to my baking/dried goods cupboard! Even replaced a shelf as I finally got around to purchasing some new shelf support pins.  What took me so long to do that little chore, I do not know!

Out went some things with shocking dates which tells me that I don't bake enough! LOL - not one but two bags of pine nuts, old posh meusli,  even older oatabix, heat and eat quinoa and another of spelt.

Also used up some hazelnuts and walnuts into a scrummy apple strawberry crumble.  OH was very pleased to have afters!

Now I need to find uses for corn syrup, prunes, figs and unsulphered apricots which tbh are quite unattractive as they are very dark in colour!

I think my inner squirrel is still in full force, finding buried treasure

greenbee

@rtandon27 - all of the dried fruit will be very nice in porridge (prep it the night before as they’ll be better for a long soak) or in flapjacks ☺️

themadvix

And you can always send the unsulphured apricots my way - sooo much nicer than the yellow ones! 😊

Karmacat

RT, thats great!  I'd second the use in porridge/ muesli etc, especially soaked overnight.

I've continued little bits of decluttering - felt too cold to get a shower so didn't try on those clothes.  Found a spare handle from when my kitchen was fitted (I didn't want a handle on the boiler cupboard, it would have been the "wrong" end, to open it I reach underneath and push.  Weird, but it works).  And I found some Edwardian looking saws, which are unuseable next to my lovely £7 B&Q affair maybe my green bin neighbour will have those. 

Took a walk to Waitrose to check out the bin that the zoom talk guy mentioned, and its not quite specific enough for me to put my bags there.  But I checked my council website, and Sainsbo *do* take textiles, not just clothes - so  I'll walk there later in the week, hurray.

Today, hmmm, I'll do a couple of the finicky finance things online, and, um, clean teh shopping thats been sitting there for a fortnight, as I have a shop arriving tomorrow, oops - its the frozen veg I need, though there's always more I can buy, of course

Karmacat

Karmacat said:

Today, hmmm, I'll do a couple of the finicky finance things online, and, um, clean teh shopping thats been sitting there for a fortnight, as I have a shop arriving tomorrow, oops - its the frozen veg I need, though there's always more I can buy, of course

Woo hoo, mission accomplished!  Claimed my pension (for mid December) and checked I didn't have to pay anything on the cc thats due.  Even cleaned most of the shopping.

Plus I had a walk, checked in with sister, increased the online shop thats due tomorrow and also finally got on with backing up the computer for the last time, to switch over to the new one.  I'll have time to do a bit more finance stuff before the shop arrives tomorrow afternoon.