Travelling On

beanielou

Enjoy the weekend

badmemory

Karmacat said:

For now: I've bought another wodge of premium bonds,

Funny you should say that - I have just done the same.  Interest rates on the account the money was in had sunk through the floor (to 0.01%) so I decided even if I never win I'd rather risk that than wait for the 50p interest.  One £25 win = 50 years interest.  Mind you I do still have 2 that I've had for over 50 years & they've never won me a penny.  They are probably worth framing by now!

Karmacat

Good evening all RT, I actually ended up doing a bit more navvying - digging up shallow rooted weeds, and I brought two paving pieces through to the back from the front yard.  Got one of them in place, which is great.  Nice little space between the edge of one and the fencepost can be a hedgehog gate  

Beanie, I *will* enjoy, thanks - I won't do "essentials", except maybe a *little* bit of gardening, but I'll prepare for some of the craft stuff, or maybe the genealogy - things that are on the Big List, but still fun.

Badmemory - exactly!  I can remember the old certificates, which you could buy one by one, but I've no idea how many/few I had I'll make it up to £10k, as this is re-allocating dosh from various sources.

Very tired - I *did* manage to put the dishwasher on, which always starts the next day well, but I know the scraps of patchwork material are still all over my bed.  Not going up too late tonight.  

Oh!  And I remember what's available to me this weekend - putting away the English accounts I've just done, and getting rid of the 7 year old paperwork.  Yay!

greent

rtandon27 said:

Karmacat said:

...even if its just to stare at what I've already done

Good plan KC - I've been trying to do this in the morning when I put the rubbish/recycling out.  Seeing the bulbs popping up reminds me that longer days are just around the corner!

Ooh,yes I wandered around our garden today, checking out all the bulbs coming up  

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, exciting to be able to get rid of paperwork! Am I right in thinking you have an incinerator?

Karmacat

Yay for the bulbs!  Mine are a bit deformed this year in the back garden, because of the fencers - anything that was peeping out of the ground was basically trodden on   anything that had managed four inches or so was safe.  They're all alive, though, so that's the main thing.

Cheery - yes, I do it's out in the garden at the mo, with very soggy branches in it, but I could certainly fire it up - lots of it can't be recycled, because of confidentiality, so instead of shredding it, I could burn it and put it on the garden.  It will disappear to nothing, of course, and environmentally ... I don't know, it's probably not great.  It will be fun!  Is it worth paying the environmental cost for that?  I don't know.   This is the debate we all need to have about all our actions, I guess.  I know I can use what's burned on the garden, so that's something.

StrawberrySuze

Karmacat said:

Chery - yes, I do it's out in the garden at the mo, with very soggy branches in it, but I could certainly fire it up - lots of it can't be recycled, because of confidentiality, so instead of shredding it, I could burn it and put it on the garden.  It will disappear to nothing, of course, and environmentally ... I don't know, it's probably not great.  It will be fun!  Is it worth paying the environmental cost for that?  I don't know.   This is the debate we all need to have about all our actions, I guess.  I know I can use what's burned on the garden, so that's something.

I burned some confidential stuff the other day, didn't know it could be used on the garden, is it good for it? 🙂

earthgirl2

Yey to gardening and seeing things sprouting up! Spring is just around the corner!

Karmacat

StrawberrySuze said:

Karmacat said:

Chery - yes, I do it's out in the garden at the mo, with very soggy branches in it, but I could certainly fire it up - lots of it can't be recycled, because of confidentiality, so instead of shredding it, I could burn it and put it on the garden.  It will disappear to nothing, of course, and environmentally ... I don't know, it's probably not great.  It will be fun!  Is it worth paying the environmental cost for that?  I don't know.   This is the debate we all need to have about all our actions, I guess.  I know I can use what's burned on the garden, so that's something.

I burned some confidential stuff the other day, didn't know it could be used on the garden, is it good for it? 🙂

As long as there's no plastic or anything toxic in it, it should be fine, I think - after all, paper is basically wood, here's hoping

I was out there for about 45 mins this afternoon - honestly, I cleared underneath about three feet of the fence, max, and there was a whole bucket of roots, biiiiig roots.  All gone now then I had a bit of a walk, so I could remember how to stand upright

edinburgher

@Karmacat - ink might not be the best thing for the garden in terms of the components - but I'm pretty sure the organic material being added makes it a net win 🤔 Pretty much in the realms of guesswork here!