Travelling On

Karmacat

Nice one, RT the mint that's staying with the sage for now, that's been on a windowsill throughout the winter, and it's suffering, there's no doubt: mint is supposed to be outside, of course, but it was too late.  I'm taking them in at night - this is the 3rd day of that.  I'll let them stay out on the 6th day, I reckon, and plant the mint out on that date, it's been in that pot for long enough.  

The world is opening up!  Just straws in the wind, so far - though the weather currently seems determined to shut us down again ⛈🌩🌪 

Karmacat

Good morning!  I went a walk "first thing" yesterday (just after 10am ) which kind of disorganised me for the whole day.  Tiny bit of kerfuffle there: I saw what I thought was a tortoise stranded on the duck house, and asked some local workmen where the Estate Office was, explaining my need ... turns out it's a terrapin, which might as well be a 🐠

And there was the issue of being in a thunderstorm for over an hour, very close by (I was counting to one, and that was it!).  Still, lots of small wins:
- my sage plants are surviving being out, I keep tipping out the rainwater that's trying to drown them,
- I've cancelled our hotel booking for one night in September in Norfolk, as our rellies didn't want to commit, and we wanted to play fair with the hotel and cancel it *now*.
- sent my sister the money for my half of the Somerset holiday.  Slightly embarrassing, I'd forgotten she'd sent me the amount, and that she'd already paid it
- transferred £16 Rewards dosh from NatWest rewards account to my current account (which is also called a rewards account.  Life is never simple ).  

Hmm, so today, sister's phone call, email a cousin who's become a grandmother for the zillionth time, and do some weeding.  Need to get my strength back, after lolling about all the time for vaxx etc.

rtandon27

I've got some peppermint in a pot from last year, that I was sure was dead & was about to empty it into the compost.  With the recent rains, it seems to have sprung to life & is now 4 inches tall! Yeah - gotta love a plant that volunteers

Suffolk_lass

rtandon27 said:

I've got some peppermint in a pot from last year, that I was sure was dead & was about to empty it into the compost.  With the recent rains, it seems to have sprung to life & is now 4 inches tall! Yeah - gotta love a plant that volunteers

Same here with a pathetic ginger mint!

rtandon27

Karmacat said:

...Need to get my strength back, after lolling about all the time for vaxx etc.

Lovely tada list KC - don't forget health first! - that's what makes all the rest possible 😘

apple_muncher

Hope you are ok and haven't been blown away by the wind...

Karmacat

Afternoon all!  Awww, apple, no problems, sweetie - I went for another walk, then had two very long phone calls yesterday, about a trip we're trying to arrange, and using my computer too turned out to not be a thing   and I'm sleeping very badly, sigh.  

One little achievement, which will enable me to be more mse by cooking more often: I finally got my little DAB radio working - by sheer accident, the first preset station is now Classic FM, which I would've chosen anyway I bought the thing almost 2 years ago now, and even during all this lockdown, I never got it going   still, it's working now.

Ooh, and I stepped into my big charity shop, where I bought my armchair, for 5 steps the nearest person was about 5 yards away, and the door was jammed open, so no interchange of infections  I'm waiting for 3 weeks after my 2nd jab to do anything in particular, which is another week.  So for the next week, I'll do something for the present day, and something longer term.  Plus 3 or 4 local walks, and 5 minutes abdominal exercise.  And I'd like to finish integrating my notes on the family I'm working on in the family history stuff: they were millworkers in West Yorkshire, very vivid characters    

I've done a YG survey this morning, so now for a saunter about the boards.

badmemory

I had my second jab early last month & I am doing very little that I wasn't doing before.  But I do live not too far from Bolton.  I still don't get out of the car without a mask on.  I will still not eat or drink inside, frostbite or drowning here we come!  The 2 most exciting things I have done recently?  Taken  my son for his first jab to Accrington of all places, thank goodness for satnav as I've never been before, his first time out since the hospital in early March.  My other excitement was going back to the caravan after over a year & having to clean the mould out of the fridge because someone (not me obviously) had closed the door.  Not very MSE of me but I think if it had have been mine I would have got a new one.  Yuck, yuck & double yuck.  I do find it interesting how shops next door to one another can be so different in peoples behaviour.

Karmacat

badmemory said:

I had my second jab early last month & I am doing very little that I wasn't doing before. 
Nor me, badmemory, walking inside the open shop for a few minutes was the only different thing I've done, quite literally.    I think there's a lot more of us than you might imagine.

But I do live not too far from Bolton.  I still don't get out of the car without a mask on.  I will still not eat or drink inside, frostbite or drowning here we come! 
Oh my!  Lovely town as it is (and one line of my family history takes me to Bolton, a tradesman there who died in 1787, his grandson wrote about him in a diary that I saw when I was a teenager).  But Bolton's not a good place to go to right now   And in any case, I'm with you on not eating/drinking, and getting frostbite or drowning.  Or right now, being a human skittle, this wind is astonishing!

The 2 most exciting things I have done recently?  Taken  my son for his first jab to Accrington of all places, thank goodness for satnav as I've never been before, his first time out since the hospital in early March.  My other excitement was going back to the caravan after over a year & having to clean the mould out of the fridge because someone (not me obviously) had closed the door.  Not very MSE of me but I think if it had have been mine I would have got a new one.  Yuck, yuck & double yuck.  I do find it interesting how shops next door to one another can be so different in peoples behaviour.

Urg, the caravan mould sounds *extremely* yuck!  Sorry you had to do that.  As for your son's first jab - isn't it weird where people get sent on the national scheme!  My adult niece lives in one of the biggest towns in my county, but she's been sent to *my* town for her jab, my town being less than a third of the size.  Very odd.  

Karmacat

Good grief - I decided that tidying my office would be a good contribution to my list of things to do.  It really is - my desk was littered with leftover accounts work from January and February **blue shrieky smiley**.  I think I've misinterpreted the whole 80/20 thing