Travelling On

greent

Karmacat said

Interesting step to commit to is washing my hair with a bar of shampoo - it avoids the plastic bottle, and they say that the bars have fewer chemicals than the liquids, apparently.   

Yep - they are a sort of modified soap bar. I used to make them (and soap, bath melts, body butters etc).when I was an aromatherapist as an additional source of income (and also sold at craft fairs and a bit online) Whilst I love a good handmade bar of soap I personally don't like shampoo bars - whatever I tried (mine and others) my hair was either fluffy and flyaway or heavy and lank or dull. I buy huge bottles  of s'poo and wash my hair every 2-3 days, so they last ages, so I'm sticking with that!  

rtandon27

Happy V-day KC - hope all went smoothly with the appointment & that you are resting up with a warm cuppa and a biscuit of two.

Karmacat

Hello lovelies, yes, I'm good with V-Day thank you Gosh it was fast!  And very tiny - my vaccinations to go to Zimbabwe back in the day were *much* more ... intrusive, lets say    And when you see pix on tv, you see loads and loads of volunteers, and it's always looked like overkill to me.  Well, it's not.  Premises aren't purpose built, your route may wiggle, and with it being, y'know, a pandemic, you don't want to go away from your route.  So volunteers/ support staff are doing a *really* valuable job.  

Took a zigzag route to get back - hadn't been for a walk for ages! - but oh my, it was cold!  Got in the shower, had something to eat, I'm sitting here warm and toasty, no aches, pains or headaches.  Shiny happy people and I'm doing *nothing* today

ETA - beanie, greent, thanks for the feedback on the shampoo bar, I suspected something like that might be the case.  I have a *lot* of shampoo in my house so it's not an issue yet.  I'll get a trial size from somewhere, maybe in the summer.  

Viking_mfw

I had problems when I initially switched to shampoo bars then found ethique at Holland and Barrett. I should probably try to find a local one that is better but ethique is just like "real" shampoo. From what I've seen different ones suit different hair types. An ethique bar will last me c. 2 months. 

Karmacat

Thanks Viking - I have a Holland and Barrett in walking distance (when shops are open, I suppose!) and though I loathe their pricing policies as being complete chancers, that would be really worthwhile.

I ended up with lots of aches, pains and headaches by the end of yesterday, I'm continuing to use painkillers today, couldn't even have a normal length phone convo with my sister    I'll have a slow walk today inside the house, between the most distant two bits I can find, too slow and steady for anything aerobic, but at least get the blood moving a little bit.

rtandon27

Oh dear - sorry to hear you are feeling poorly - rest up & feel better soon xxx

beanielou

Hope you feel more like yourself soon.

Karmacat

Thanks both - I feel much better today, no painkillers now needed, so now it's about recovery and gaining fitness.  Probably won't do that outside today, not all the ice has melted from my bird baths, so it's not *that* warm.  But it's on the way, hurray.

A few things that I set in motion before the vaccination have been trundling onwards:
- I emailed my maintenance firm in France for a VAT invoice, using someone else's words and they replied *really* fast - and promptly sent me the details for 2019.  Yeah, no.  So I've emailed back already, using my staccato, childlike written French, and we'll see what happens.
- I'm slowly closing my Post Office account that pays 0.01%, argh, and the experimental £50 has finally arrived in my current account.  Feeling a bit dodgy about doing the whole thing in one go, so I've sent a third of the remainder, and we'll see if that arrives there as well.  If it does, the whole of the last lot can go, and I'll be able to open that ISA soon.
- £10 Amazon voucher from SB, credited to my account.  There are YG and Pinecone emails waiting for me, so I'll have a go there.
- I've taped a 15 minute exercise video from Mark Wright?  Recommended to me, but unknown.  Better than lots of little 3 minute bits from the Strictly team on Morning Live, much as I love them, they're cluttering up my dvd recorder

Now if I can just catch up with what needs to go into the dishwasher and the washing machine, I'll really be in recovery mode  

greent

Glad you're feeling better x

debtfreeoneday

Glad V day went well!