Travelling On 2 January 2018 at 4:38PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Mortgage-Free Wannabe 6.3K replies 269.3K views

greent

Definitely get the seeds planted:) 

Karmacat

Thanks both!  Yep, the need to plant the seeds is why I wrote that   I couldn't come on **again** and say, I meant to plant them.  So I planted Echinacea Red, basil, kale, purslane and land cress.  Only the purslane is from Real Seeds, so it will breed true, but we'll see what happens.  Some of the rest are from Premier Seeds Direct, who are almost as good.   I gave them what I thought was a soaking, but 2 hours later, some of the cells look dry, so I'll do more before I go to bed tonight.  Watering is my downfall, and I know why it's taken me so long to plant everything - I'm rubbish at nurturing a seed from germination to solo flight.  I usually drown them, but here's hoping.  

Having a celebratory cup of tea now  

Karmacat

Good morning, lovely ones Right, of the 17 jobs for April, here's the update:

1 planted seeds.  I mean, I'd like to do more, but planting 5 different species is more than I've ever done before, so I'm going to call this a win.  I also need more seed compost, and I've found out that the local horticultural society does deliveries for a donation, so I'll put in a whacking great order with them.  

2 Emails: sorted ratesetter (already reported here )
3 Digital tech: the micro SD card on my phone seemed to die.  Bruv suggested I switch the phone off and on again I'm fine with computers, but rubbish with phones.  This worked!
4 Slate and hardcore by kitchen: first bit done, there's a bit more manual stuff I can do, then it will need big bags of cement lobbing at it.  Manual stuff a lot easier than I thought.
5 Back up computer.  Just got half a dozen tricky genealogical downloads to name, including the ones in Latin 😨 (that's a "fearful face"!) plus a couple of dozen financial statements, and then I can back up properly. 

And it's been snowing, so I'm really not tempted to any outside work.  I think I'll continue with the half done things - lockdown easing doesn't really make any difference to me, we don't go to pubs, and I do necessary shopping online.  But I'm really happy the general mood is looking up.

apple_muncher

So you weren't up at 5 to go and queue outside certain shops this morning, then??

greenbee

KC - your phone is just a computer in a small box. That's why switching it off and switching it on again works

Karmacat

apple_muncher said:

So you weren't up at 5 to go and queue outside certain shops this morning, then??

Absolutely not    or I may be lying, of course    truthfully, wild horses couldn't drag me to the shops today 

greenbee said:

KC - your phone is just a computer in a small box. That's why switching it off and switching it on again works

Thanks for that greenbee - I know that in reality, but its more an emotional block on my part, and an unreasonable attachment to a keyboard    In fact, the whole thing is unreasonable

As for a follow up right now - the only thing I could bear to do right now of those tasks above is to name some documents properly before I back up, or possibly tidy the office.  But for the sake of my health, I need to get outside, even if its just into the back garden for 10 minutes.  I'll do that, then we'll see.

apple_muncher

Back gardens are great. Hope yours worked its magic on you x

Karmacat

**boogies in**

My garden was indeed a magical place, apple, ta muchly.  Ahem, not that I did much gardening - it was more of item 10, clear slate and put down hardcore.  I got rid of most of the garden fleece under the slate, which wasn't protecting anything any more, put the hardcore down (broken pieces of concrete) and chucked builders' sand on.  More patio clearing done - I might do a bit of weeding and put some mix down between the stones, that would be great.

A bit of work done on the tidying downloaded documents, I'll probably do a bit more tonight.     

Karmacat

Morning!  Yes, I *did* do more last night, clearing the documents backlog.  Same family had two Johns born in 1860 and 1861 - the first one, poor little lamb, died after 3 days.  Horrendously common in those years, of course.  

No second lot of work done on the garden, but that was more hope than expectation.  

I've been checking out Waitflower Entertainment the last few days; I wanted to host a family do at a pub local to my sister's, she'd rather its at hers because of the weather, I'm fine with that, but the quantities on W/Entertainment are large ... so we're looking at shopping from their normal ranges, which is quite fun.  I may have to do an online shop at Waitflower myself every so often.

So, today.  Waitflower in the evening, I think.  I might try to finish item 17 on my list, "emails: ratesetter, 3 rellies, and friend".  Ratesetter is done, and I've finally learned the value of human contact.  Something practical in the afternoon, and its job done    

Karmacat

So, that was good:

- more genealogy tidying

- more patio tidying (I attached a piece of trellis to the shed wall via the little metal attachments screwed in.  No screws - I'm using the screwholes to thread some strong cord 

- dw has already finished, hurray.

- emails: 3 emails done, 1 drafted, 1 to do.  All pleasurable, just a matter of focussing.

I might yet download some financial statements.  Or I might read my latest zombie novel