Travelling On

beanielou

Sometimes it is indeed good to make a decision 

Karmacat

Yep, I'm happy to leave swagbucks behind, it's really not worth it in any sense for me now.  

I've just repeated my walk from Monday with my sister - got some tweaking to do on that, there's a little middle section that still has too much traffic noise, but it was a good workout, actually  

I've just been on the Boots website - dermatologist she went to a few years ago had sun lotion recommendations, and Boots has one of them, brand name of La Roche Posay since our skin is so weird, it needs a lot of sun protection.  

Also a couple of products that I can take to my Giki account: bamboo toothpicks, instead of the all-plastic Interdens stuff I use.  And Georganics tooth powder - we'll see how good that is, I'm not sure.  But the packaging looks like a glass jar, which is a good start.  Delivery next week.

Boots order has convinced me about leaving swagbucks: £14 of points is sitting on my card, plus another £1 just for doing this shop, and if I'd been on the ball, I could've clicked to include another 2 offers worth £7 in total.  Not sure there's anything else I want from Boots right now, but it's a lesson to check that stuff.  Very pleased.

Cheery_Daff

Good work, and good to see you're still carrying on with the giki stuff too! Hope you manage to sort the middle bit of your walk out - it's good to have a circuit you can do regularly without having to plan something new every time 😊

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery the walk is a long one, I wouldn't do it every day, but I do just about reach into the countryside, and that's a lovely thing.  Of course, if I can manage to shop properly for an electric folding bike, things will be very different   I'll do it again maybe on Sunday, or Monday - I definitely want to build on it, though I'm also going to keep checking if my council-sponsored series of walks is going to start up again.

And Giki - I do like the idea, because it suggests thing that I might otherwise miss, so I'll keep popping in every now and then  

Karmacat

Woo hoo - the walks from my local council are allowed a resumption from yesterday so I've emailed the rangers with a bit of online whooping   

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, that is good news!! Are these the health walks? My mum often goes on her local ones - she'll be thrilled if they've started up again!

themadvix

Funny enough Karma, I’ve come to the same conclusion with Swagbucks, once I’ve reached payout, that’s it.

 I nearly opted for Georganics tooth stuff this time but went for Ben and Anna instead - have a feeling it’s the same company anyway! Loving the toothpaste (in a glass jar) - it’s super minty (and black as we went for the activated charcoal, which is weird!)

 Great news about the walks!

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff said:

Ooh, that is good news!! Are these the health walks? My mum often goes on her local ones - she'll be thrilled if they've started up again!

Those are the ones, yes!  In our area, you have to book a space now, on an online calendar, and it isn't showing any walks yet, but they're definitely working on their admin organisation, so it shouldn't be long.themadvix said:

Funny enough Karma, I’ve come to the same conclusion with Swagbucks, once I’ve reached payout, that’s it.
That's an interesting coincidence, madvix!  I abandoned bits of it ages ago, but now, as I say, I'm not bothering with anything at all, even the playing games - it encourages me to play online games (doh!) and that's a stupid mis-use of my fingers.

 I nearly opted for Georganics tooth stuff this time but went for Ben and Anna instead - have a feeling it’s the same company anyway! Loving the toothpaste (in a glass jar) - it’s super minty (and black as we went for the activated charcoal, which is weird!)
I went for the activated charcoal too!  I have a mint plant that's survived the winter (just) on my kitchen windowsill, and mint seeds, but no input on charcoal and I wanted to experiment, so there we go.  It's left the warehouse now, woo hoo.

 Great news about the walks!
Thanks!

But dear me, I made a list of the bits and bobs I needed to do: finishing a parcel by buying online postage, the census form, finishing off dratted Virgin, planting seeds, cleaning a kitchen cupboard (I broke a glass storage jar I've had for a million years), in all, 13 items I'd really like to do today **blue haired shrieky smiley**

It's now 10.07: I'll give myself till 10.15 on here, and then put the dishwasher on and do the online postage purchase.

rtandon27

Karmacat said:
...do the online postage purchase.

KC - I've been using the RM online postage & pick-up service since the day it went live.  It's such a boon living out here miles away from everything!

The added benefit is that we now know our postie really well - feels comfortingly old-fashioned - I remember my Grandma offering fresh baking to our postie, to see him on his rounds. It's a wonder he wasn't fatter, as several of her cronies in the neighbourhood did the same!😄

Karmacat

Hi RT!  Good to hear!  I'm used to buying postage online, but ahem ... I went round and round (and round and round) the RM website quite a few times ended up paying twice for the postage, so the free pickup service wasn't much use, sadly.  I've put in for a refund, as the purchases were within a couple of minutes of one another, and to the same London folks, it should be obvious that it's an error, but it can only be seen to after expiry, apparently.  We'll see.  It was really, really hard to find a "complaint" page that would accept any kind of statement from me, and I gave up in the end.  I can let the transaction ID numbers do the talking, hopefully.

Also posted a letter to an elderly rellie in Huddersfield, who tells me she has an ipad woo hoo: let's do emails, pretty please  

Dishwasher launched successfully.

I had to come back on here for courage, because my attempt at disentangling my Virgin accounts is also about to launch.  There's a message waiting for me in one of them, and I'm trying to close down all of them and find a normal easy access savings account without all the bells and whistles.  Then I'm going to pay the French maintenance people and do the census.