Travelling On

greent

Ooof!!!! That's a big baby!!! All 4 of mine were 'late' (from 2 - 11 days) and the weight range was 5 13 to 7 10 - 12lbs is like one of mine at several months old! Good job you bought bigger babygros - they will be very pleased with them, I'm sure!! X

DH and I were also both told at our 1st jab appointments that we would be notified by text  'in due course' of when we could book our next appointment  

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff said:

Plenty of good stuff done there,  well done!

apple_muncher said:

Writing for pleasure is never a waste of time.

Thanks both!  I'm writing a story based primarily in a village local to me, and some of the time was spent happily researching on rightmove I want it to be as real as I can make it, so I was looking at what the actual houses there are like, inside and out.  Over the last week, I seem to have almost accidentally written 5,600 words    which quite surprises me.  I'm enjoying it though.

Karmacat

greent said:

Ooof!!!! That's a big baby!!! All 4 of mine were 'late' (from 2 - 11 days) and the weight range was 5 13 to 7 10 - 12lbs is like one of mine at several months old! Good job you bought bigger babygros - they will be very pleased with them, I'm sure!! X
My brother was 6lbs 5 when he was born, I think - but it's one of those things that's determined by both genetics and environment, and our genetics is for height, plus conditions have steadily improved since he was born, even though my brother and his wife were desperately poor when their kids were born.
DH and I were also both told at our 1st jab appointments that we would be notified by text  'in due course' of when we could book our next appointment  

Thanks for that, greent - I'm glad someone else on here is going through that system.  It's good for me to be in the system that meant I could walk to my appointment, but I just wish I could have booked a 2nd at the same time.  Never mind - it's a miracle of research and application that we got a vaccine so quickly.  

Ive been out a walk with my sister this morning, and I'm **shattered** - turns out we were out there for two hours!  Walked out to the countryside!  Online, I found a potentially quicker route to do it, but I have to check it out by myself first, there's a possibility I might end up trapped in a carpark and have to double back for a mile or so  

debtfreeoneday

12lbs!  😬 
I had two at once and they weren’t even near that!! 

Suffolk_lass

DS got his call from the Dr yesterday and his second jab is now booked for Easter Saturday. How brilliant is that for him (and how reassuring that the no-2nd-appointment-booked system seems to be working at week 11)

Karmacat

Thank you so much for posting that, SL, that really is reassuring.  My GP surgery has a facebook page, and a new post yesterday about this very topic, so I posted some vaguely anxious blather, and they replied later in the day!  So that was good too.  If life was just the same old same old, that's one thing, but my sister and I booked those 5 days in Somerset on the assumption that both of us would have had both our vaccinations, plus time for them to reach full effectiveness.  It's not till the end of June, but these days, nothing is guaranteed to go to plan.

Karmacat

Good morning all  

So, Virgin Money is actually trying to send me mad  which is quite surprising, really.  I can't log on to the new account I opened recently, that Martin had linked to.  I'll have one conversation with them.  Then I'll ask them to return the £20 I sent them to link up my current account with the new one, and I'll go elsewhere, I'm fed up with this.

In my Real Life, as opposed to my financial shenanigans, planting seeds (finally!  still not planted any!) and clearing the patio enough for it to be useable takes priority.  Life will find a way, as Jeff Goldblum always said in Jurassic Park  

earthgirl2

I use daily rob love banking and moving things around now it sits in my to do list for ever as I can't seem to get all the piles of information I need! Frustrating!

Karmacat

Hi Earthie!  Mmmm, I can read your main point - that you're frustrated too by having to collect such a lot of weird and wonderful information - but I can't for the life of me think what you originally meant by "rob love banking" (I'm assuming predictive text went a bit off-piste  )

I definitely decided to have today off, though I did do an hour or so of the garden - I have two garden beds!  More or less.  I also have the beginnings of a path between them, which I'm filling with debris from the collapsed decking, and I'll top up with whatever - tea leaves, bark chippings, bits of laurel, slate, stone, whatevs.  Cleaning of self and home may also have been involved  

Karmacat

Good afternoon all lovely and sunny here, really astonishing.  And this new "path", the chunky spot between two beds, has gone a wiggle on - my lovely neighbour had 2 bucketsful of sawdust that comes from him chopping up stuff for firewood.  I've been laying down tiny bits of scrap wood and rotten decking etc, and I've plumped the sawdust down on top of that.  There'll be more soon

I had a lot of bitty jobs to do today, so I've made a note of absolutely everything, it's mostly tidying in the kitchen that I haven't done, incredibly boring.

But one finance thing I *have* done: I've been pootling away in the background with very easy swagbucks points, once every 3 months sort of thing, but it's starting to get stressful on my fingers (arthritis!  ageing sucks!) and I've just got to enough points for another £10 voucher, so I'm stopping now.  Feels good to make the decision.

Meantime, back to the tidying