Travelling On 2 January 2018 at 3:38PM edited 30 November -1 at 12:00AM in Mortgage-Free Wannabe 5.7K replies 257.3K views

Karmacat

Thanks for coming back, taka - sorry to hear about the drying green, very frustrating for it to be lower than average - and as you say, with the dogs running about, containers aren't safe either - when I go foraging for blackberries, I always remember the "not below the knee" rule, because of dogs doing what they do.  Very sorry about your dad, too.
Understandable about your inheritance giving such a massive difference to your life, I hope it works out - I never expected an inheritance from my mum, we might have had to spend it all on care home fees, but she went so fast that wasn't an issue - so that money meant I could renovate my kitchen and not worry about the finances of it.  Moving will be even bigger for you, thats great to hear.

Karmacat

Still didn't clean the shopping yesterday - I'll *have* to do it today, as the new shopping delivery is *tomorrow*   But I did lots of digging - my rosemary bush is very wonky, and I discovered an absolutely massive bramble root under there.  Very difficult to get to, and I also discovered a run of bramble root from about six feet away     so a really, really worthwhile job to get rid of it.

Today: I have a to-do list.  Slight money shuffle between my bank and my main savings provider, which goes both ways, believe it or not.  Need to pay my tv licence - I used to leave a gap for a couple of months, but not during a lockdown Christmas I'm not   I'm going to *try* to put the mastercard onto automatic and paperless.  Plus stack the green bin and clean the shopping (and myself, after that!).  The washing machine could do with a go as well.  Back later, to report what measure of success

debtfreeoneday

I may I may have missed all of the chat thread about it but I find this place (not this diary)  lonely at times. Some diaries are busy, some not but I do click thanks to posts when I have been on and read if I find I have nothing to say just so people know I’ve been there. 

themadvix

Wise not to limit your TV viewing at the moment Karma! I do find live TV is good for festive cheer, although personally only small doses are required!

Karmacat

debtfreeoneday said:

I may I may have missed all of the chat thread about it but I find this place (not this diary)  lonely at times. Some diaries are busy, some not but I do click thanks to posts when I have been on and read if I find I have nothing to say just so people know I’ve been there. 
I'm glad the diaries help a bit, debtfree ... when I was really ill, they were the only thing I could cope with, an absolute godsend.  Nowadays, they're still really beneficial for me because lockdown as a single person *is* a bit lonely, yes - I don't suffer like some others, but I'm used to going out, and I can't.  So this is good.  And you use thanks in more or less the same way as SL and me  

themadvix said:

Wise not to limit your TV viewing at the moment Karma! I do find live TV is good for festive cheer, although personally only small doses are required!

It's true, isn't it!  I need extra tv simply because I get tired, sadly.  Like today, I did *lots* in the garden (including standing on a garden chair to prune some branches with a saw!) and I meant to wash the shopping afterwards.  But I didn't have the energy, I couldn't do it (at least there's a lot less unwashed than I thought, though!).  So I sat in front of the tv and checked my emails on my phone.  That's just how it is right now - when I was around 30, I didn't watch tv for years - life was busy!  I lied to get a mortgage, fully intending to rent out rooms (in Brighton, so people were queuing up) and having 4 lodgers is busy, no matter what people say.  I had a full time admin job (underwriting assistant at Eagle Star) and I was retraining to be a therapist, plus following a couple of therapists, with the clients permission.  It was full on  with a few meltdowns here and there, just to make life interesting

Karmacat

So, my ta-da list is not as extensive as I hoped (when is it ever!) but not too bad:
- funded the Regular Saver payment thats due on the 19th of next month.
- *didn't* fund the current account payment - thats due in two days.
- paid tv licence (and got a reminder this evening, sigh ...)
- green bin is nice and full, including the branches that were shading the mahonia and the winter savory underneath.  I've kept the big structure (about 10 feet long!) to use next year in the garden - as beanpoles, if nothing else.  Took the green bin over the road to its pickup point.
- washing machine on.

I might yet spray some of the easy packaging with anti-viral goop, but I might not, not going to get in a tizzy about it.

Covid is creeping closer to me though: one of the younger Norfolk rellies is a doctor on a covid ward, and she's caught it, and I don't think she was asymptomatic.  Plus, they're demanding she come back into work, because they need her.  I'm Very Not Happy about that  

apple_muncher

We can't quite believe at school that we have only had 1 confirmed covid case (in a pupil), plus a few isolators. Long may it last! But to be told to go in when you are a confirmed case is utter madness and surely goes against h+s regs? If I tried to do that, as a confirmed case, I'd be very definitely and immediately propelled back out of the door by a 2m bargepole! No chance to be a superspreader!

beanielou

Blimey Norah. & that's not what I want to say.
That is blooming dire. Just dire.

Karmacat

Sorry folks! I just read the email again - I don't know when she came down with it, as opposed to me finding out, but she's definitely being pushed to come back in, because of staff shortages.  I've also had a talk with my sister about Christmas, and its going to be fine about me not taking part, and doing Christmas on my own.

rtandon27

Glad to hear your sister is comfortable with your decision - I had no doubt she would be