Travelling On

Karmacat

Apologies for the size of the font in the previous post - I did it in Open Office and transferred, my mouse has a mind of its own sometimes and deletes whole posts before I get them online.

Just remembered something else about February: I had my first vaccine, which took about 3 days to work through, including the week-long headache.

Anyway, March.  It's here!  I'm not planning *quite* as much, but we're still basically in lockdown, so I still want to use my time usefully.  So it's basically all the "not yet" items from last month, plus some others that need to be next on the list:
1. see to underneath mahonia.
2. plant kale and echinacea.
3. repair lightpull in bathroom.
4. use up brilliant white paint on bare plasterboard.
5. repair mortar under DPC (urgent at this time of year).
6. get compact radio going.
7. get sewing machine set up
8. make face masks

Plus:
9. French accounts
10. Lay out timber for raised beds.
11. Clear slate, put down hard core.
12. Plant next set of seeds.
13. Back up computer (and tidy it beforehand, its quite a bit of work).
14. Research eco cleaning.
15. Sort out office.
16. Sort out 2nd bedroom.
17. Clean patio furniture.

Cheery_Daff

That's excellent progress! Lots of different things too. Well done you!

Karmacat

So, today's action list:

- sort lists  done this!
- two cards to be sent, one birthday, one get well soon.
- email voting form, still not done that.
- email sodding French maintenance company.
- put washing machine on (waiting till after sister's rung)
- stack dishwasher
- plant kale and echinacea
- dig soil away from fence (I lied, a bit of that isn't yet done).
- long phone call.

Should be doable, but I'll update  

greent

I'd say that a well done' is most definitely in order for February!

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff said:

That's excellent progress! Lots of different things too. Well done you!

Thanks Cheery!  Yes, the different sorts of projects was a real boon to me  
greent said:

I'd say that a well done' is most definitely in order for February!

Thanks greent!  I had a distinct wobble during February, but I think a lot of people did, we're all human after all - but I'm definitely seeing the difference all this work has made in my finances, and in my garden.  Only a bit in my house, but the house is quite a focus this month, we'll see how that goes!

Karmacat

Karmacat said:  So, today's action list:

- sort lists  done this!
- two cards to be sent, one birthday, one get well soon. done.
- email voting form, still not done that. Yep, sent it in the morning.
- email sodding French maintenance company. Yep, sent that too, basically forwarding what I'd sent with a bit of convo.
- put washing machine on (waiting till after sister's rung) Yep, and some of it got out onto the washing line too  
- stack dishwasher Nooooooooooooo ...
- plant kale and echinacea Nooooooooooo ...
- dig soil away from fence (I lied, a bit of that isn't yet done).  Well, no, but instead I brought some of the bagged up bark chippings and put them onto the fence border, hurray!
- long phone call. Yep.  Bakeries on Merseyside in the 1960s ... who knew?  Fun though  

This was good!  The only thing that's really been left undone is stacking the dishwasher, and I can live with that

debtfreeoneday

You did loads in February!  Well done. 

Karmacat

Thanks debtfree!  I've tried to keep going today as well: tidying within the house, part of March's list, because there's no space upstairs everything is so untidy up there - it made space to clean some of the office floor too, thats how bad it was

In the garden this afternoon, the same thing kind of applied: shifting a little bit of soil to get protection underneath the fence, I had to put the soil somewhere!  Which partly meant weeding a few square feet of shallow-rooted weeds (no more brambles on that side of the garden!).  I'm really, genuinely catching up on maintenance, in the house and the garden - though I expect to have conniptions when I move over to the side with the mahonia

Had enough now, so I'm off to bed.  Sleep well all  

apple_muncher

Tee hee! I had to look up what a conniption was! Like a tantrum for grown ups?

Suffolk_lass

apple_muncher said:

Tee hee! I had to look up what a conniption was! Like a tantrum for grown ups?

We used to refer to it as throwing a maturity fit (rather like Violet Elisabeth Bott)