Travelling On

apple_muncher

Whoop! Whoop!

greent

Yeay! Hope you have a fab break  x

beanielou

Enjoy your break 

Karmacat

Thank you all I'm so glad we've got the petrol sorted for it - there, back and a few trips out, Tues to Sat.  I've been doing preparation-oriented stuff today: washing machine, dishwasher, watering plants, texting birthday congratulations, mixing up my porridge additions (sesame seeds, ashwagandha, raisins, turmeric) and cleaning shoes, as well as going for an actual walk, lovely sunshine.  

Tomorrow will be packing, and a few financial steps needed - pound coins for some car parks, a French bill needs paying, and unfortunately I've left it very late to start faffing about with transferring money for my current account reward scheme.  Oops.  

In the meantime, I'm disappearing into the American Revolutionary War, as that's where Outlander is mostly set, who knew    I love it.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lovely to be preparing for your holidays! 

Karmacat

Definitely lovely to be having a few days away - slightly tricky to be doing it in the middle of all the petrol carp, her tank isn't big enough for us to be sure of getting back - she's bringing her rail card and wouldn't you know it, mine ran out 6 months ago - I bought a 3 year one, couldn't use the last year because of the pandemic, just shows how things have changed ... 

Absolutely necessary to take one day at a time, and enjoy what's there - we try very hard to stay within 10 miles or so of where we're staying, wherever we go is so densely inhabited there's always a big choice. 

Journey break: Sir Harold Hillier Garden
1st day: Hurst Castle, local marina, local hill fort.
2nd day: Beaulieu Motor Museum.
3rd day: Eling Tide Mill, Blackwater Woods Arboretum.
Journey break on return: Fort Nelson, Fareham.

With several alternatives in case of weather difficulties, and pleasant things to pootle around just outside the town.

Right now: pay the French bill, do the rewards current account faff, print out our itinerary (which involved swapping to my old laptop that runs as slowly as if it's on clockwork),  pack.

badmemory

I played the !!!!!! on Friday re petrol.  I said if you don't fill up before we go then I am not going.  He always runs on fumes, which annoys me anyway, but I did not want to be stuck in Wales not able to get home.  It doesn't seem to happen now but when I started driving you were told not to run out of petrol because of the sludge that would get drawn through from the bottom of the tank so I rarely let mine get below a third.

ETA  Well who knew that b i t c h  would give !!!!!!.  You learn something new everyday!

Karmacat

Well, the French bill and the rewards money shuffle was unbelievably easy ... quite annoyed with myself for letting it loom **again**.  I do still have to send it back from whence it came, but that will be easy.  Tonight, dated tomorrow.

I wasn't able to print my paperwork - I'm going to have to get a new printer, this old one can't communicate with the new laptop, and the old laptop has absolutely died ... so I have to get a printer whose software comes from the Microsoft store, because things get invalidated otherwise, and I have no idea what to do about it all.  Not going to think about it now, but internet research and learning are called for.

Meanwhile, I'm packing - I *had* been going to take my laptop, because of all the faff about the price increase of elec and gas, but I'm not now.    Wandering all over the house collecting stuff 

greent

My student offspring have HP envy printers - cost around £35 each from memory. Can be wireless. Can print colour or b/w and can scan things in quite nicely. Small cartridges available from loads of places. Software was a doddle to install on their laptops (admittedly also HP)

We have a stupidly expensive laser one with super stupidly expensive toner cartridges- ok when we could.put them through the business, but that doesn't exist any more!  

Karmacat

badmemory said:

I played the !!!!!! on Friday re petrol.  I said if you don't fill up before we go then I am not going.  He always runs on fumes, which annoys me anyway, but I did not want to be stuck in Wales not able to get home.  It doesn't seem to happen now but when I started driving you were told not to run out of petrol because of the sludge that would get drawn through from the bottom of the tank so I rarely let mine get below a third.

ETA  Well who knew that b i t c h  would give !!!!!!.  You learn something new everyday!

Hello badmemory yep, filling up is the way to go, for sure.  And I too remember the thing about not drawing up the sludge.  The censor has made a few bits of your post indecipherable - but I can tell it was strongly felt 

greent said:

My student offspring have HP envy printers - cost around £35 each from memory. Can be wireless. Can print colour or b/w and can scan things in quite nicely. Small cartridges available from loads of places. Software was a doddle to install on their laptops (admittedly also HP)

We have a stupidly expensive laser one with super stupidly expensive toner cartridges- ok when we could.put them through the business, but that doesn't exist any more!  

Ooh, thanks, greent!  That's exactly what I want, and that price would be wonderful.  Installing software is a bit tricky now, because I don't have a CD drive on this laptop ... it could communicate via bluetooth, though, and i| remember doing that on a borrowed thingummybob without any software installation.  Here's hoping.

I feel like I should be running about like a blue-arsed fly; although there are jobs I haven't attempted (sending a friend the genealogy info I found for her, frinstance, and making some frugal brownies) I'm doing fairly well on the actual holiday jobs.  I never used to make this sort of faff ... 

Still, I'm done, whichever way it goes.  Hope everyone has enough petrol for their needs, and I'll see you guys at the end of the weekend