Travelling On

edwink

Good news about your jab on Saturday KC  😘

Edwink x

Suffolk_lass

Yes, congratulations - two V-Days in a row - (Vacc then Valentines... sorry!)

Karmacat

Thanks lovely peeps I'll be ready for the symptoms - I'll have a full waterbottle, and aspirin/ paracetemol/ sleepeze tablets by the bed.  Some easy cook food ready to go.  Shower and washing machine set up (I've only been inside other buildings with closed doors twice since the pandemic started, one was my sister's house when I needed to look after her after dental surgery, and the other was my GP surgery to check on keratosis dooflips).  My usual symptom for vaccines is sore arms, most notably all the injections you needed to go to Africa in the 1990s.  

I'll download the Zoe app today and get it set up, thanks for that, greenbee.  I haven't been prepared to take part in face to face research, but that, I can do.

badmemory

Don't worry about the distancing.  Most places have very good 4 directional 2 metre spacing. 

The only place I have heard of as being bad was Sports city in Manchester & most people there were under 30s.  A friend lives next door to a GP that is doing the vaccinations & they don't even have queue minders & even when queueing down the street everyone is sticking to 2 metres. 

What is even more annoying about Sport's City is that the person complaining to me about it wouldn't complain as supposedly the people in charge of the queue must have been obeying their instructions.  I still think she should have complained so they would clarify the instructions before other people got caught up in it.  I still think anyone "queue minding" who tells someone in that queue to stop speaking chinese to me when expressing concerns needs some serious retraining.  The complainer unfortunately is still as selfish as they were 60 years ago.

Karmacat

Yikes, that sounds bad all the way round, badmemory  

I've had a cleaning day today both me and the house, things have been a bit sloppy on the vacuuming round here, and I thought I probably wouldn't want to do it after an injection of any sort.  Put the "rubbish" bin out today - very pleased, there's 4 weeks rubbish in there, in 3 supermarket bags, which could be compacted further.  I usually do 4 in that period - I'm paying attention because of Giki  

Finished off with a few finance tasks, though I still need to download some statements.  But the first transfer arrived at my current account from the PO, and I've just sent a tester payment between the 2nd account at the PO to my current account.  If that arrives tomorrow then I've linked the accounts correctly, and I can go ahead and do my ISA thing.

Had an email back from my French accountant - yes, the invoice needs to show VAT for them to be able to claim it back - so I'll have to do that French language email after all.  Such is life.  I got a bit of energy back today, so I'll do it tomorrow.  

There's a YG survey there right now, I can do that.

debtfreeoneday

Glad it’s V day for you soon. 

Viking_mfw

That is a very impressive reduction in waste @Karmacat. Ours is vastly reduced following the potty training of DS1 and we generally have only one black bin bag a fortnight but I am sure we could reduce that further. 

Karmacat

debtfree, thanks for that - I'm really looking forward to getting some protection, though I'll also be careful to let the antibodies build up before I do anything different.
Viking ta muchly.  Nearly all the veg I eat is frozen, so I have a lot of single use plastic from them - I had a zoom meet from my environmental group on U3A that said that, because the number of plastic bags to recycle has dropped so dramatically, those bags that contained frozen veg are now accepted by supermarkets in their bag recycling schemes.  I haven't checked it out yet, so I'm gathering them in a recycling bin thing on my porch, but there's a *lot* now.  I don't go to the supermarket any more, of course, just get deliveries, but maybe next month when it's a bit warmer, I'll be able to do that.

So, today is crunch time for the French email.  Google's English-French dictionary is open on another tab.  A lovely friend is going to proof read it, and that, more than anything else, will mean I'll be able to do it today.  I'm not concerned about *sending* it today, but doing it would be great.  More later  

rtandon27

Karmacat said:

...So, today is crunch time for the French email.  Google's English-French dictionary is open on another tab.  A lovely friend is going to proof read it, and that, more than anything else, will mean I'll be able to do it today.  I'm not concerned about *sending* it today, but doing it would be great.  More later  

Bonne chance ma chère

Cheery_Daff

Good luck! 

Our local transition group runs a 'hard to recycle' system where they collect everything from crisp packets to toothpaste tubes. I confess I've not made use of it yet... partly because they don't collect from any of the places we go to, and then I forget all about it. And I confess I already forgot about giki, oh dear!!