Travelling On

badmemory

I see what you mean about celebrating the fact that the pasta was GF even if penne not fusilli.  It is the thought of substitutions that stops me having deliveries, or just not getting substitutions at all.  I often think I should try it just in case I can't actually go shopping myself sometime, I think it may be a bad idea to try it when I have no choice, if you see what I mean.

beanielou

badmemory said:

It used to be that you could just make a phone call & get it over with.  Now you have to schedule it into your day & allow an hour & hope you don't just get cut off.  I wonder if they do it deliberately in the hope that you will hang up & go away.

Absolutly agree with this.

Karmacat

badmemory said:

I see what you mean about celebrating the fact that the pasta was GF even if penne not fusilli.  It is the thought of substitutions that stops me having deliveries, or just not getting substitutions at all.  I often think I should try it just in case I can't actually go shopping myself sometime, I think it may be a bad idea to try it when I have no choice, if you see what I mean.

I'd say to give it a go, badmemory - I choose the cheapest delivery slot, and you have up to two hours, I think, to roam around the website.  Plus you can alter it or cancel it up until some time on the evening before delivery, it's very flexible.  It saves me *so* much energy, it's really worth it.  If you go on to the website and feel you don't have choice, then I'd say just abandon it - you won't be charged.  Or if that freaks you out a bit, just empty your shopping trolley.  I've found it very liberating - and you could still go shopping in person, so to speak, if you want to, after all.

Ever so tired now - I'm going to bed after I watch Sarah Beeny.

Watty1

Hope you sleep well.  Haven't seen Sarah Benny for ages but that might be because I have a TV that doesn't work

debtfreeoneday

Nothing else read from them, but it does come highly recommended 

Karmacat

Watty1 said:

Hope you sleep well.  Haven't seen Sarah Benny for ages but that might be because I have a TV that doesn't work

Thanks Watty - I found Sarah Beeny at the same time as I found Martin Lewis.  She's been focussing on their own places for the last few years, but I just like her attitude and whatnot.

debtfreeoneday said:

Nothing else read from them, but it does come highly recommended 

It really does, doesn't it!  I hope to start reading it this weekend.


ETA: had to go into the central post office this morning - TalkTalk were sending me threatening letters about the router they sent me last year, when my old one stopped working - I moved to Vodafone, and they *really* don't like it - £50 charge if I don't return it!  It's lucky I hadn't recycled it!  All's well that ends wel.

Karmacat

Update: November planned jobs, including October's leftovers
1. send some euros to the UK

2. fund principality accounts yes, those are simple bank transfers now everything's set up.  Takes an hour or so each month because Principality is stuck in the Dark Ages, I'll live.

3. send London friend the genealogy info

Plus:
4. research a driving instructor for refresher lessons.
5. clearing big bookcase in living room ready to move it around (already started) I've done another foot or so of shelf, ie hardly anything.
6. research a project about space junk - I volunteered at the Space and Astronomy Group, argh.
7. write out Christmas cards, I really, really really want them ready to go by the end of November.
8. a trip to the charity shop before much longer, passing things on to clear up space.  
9. actually **look** at the Highway Code I bought - you never learn from books by osmosis, you have to read them 

Larger Projects, all carried over from October:

Decide on what to knit for the new baby, with the wool I already have. And start knitting! 

Purchases: Christmas presents.  Good lord, Christmas presents! One more big one to buy before Christmas, one delayed till spring, an Experience Day for a driver   

Prepare for winter's garden diy tasks.
Cutting back the garden. Not finished by any means, but I've done maybe 5 hours throughout the month, it's better than I expected.
Cleaning.  It's now much better than it was, but some areas still look like a slum 😮
Clearing away in living room, bedroom, and kitchen, so that I can get people in for quotes.

And that's it I've just done the ones in bold, that's all.  These jobs have to be rolled over to December now, and some of them *have* to be done in December.  I also need to do the accounts really soon. We'll see.  What I've actually spent my time on, of course, is almost entirely Sainsbury's fraud case and having chronic fatigue relapses.  One project added as a result of that: 20 minutes walking a day - my trip to the Post Office today took twice as long as it used to, I'm so unfit.  I have to rescue my life!

Karmacat

Amazon order is arriving today, in two batches I think.  

Lots of clothes washing and dishwashing going on here, luckily it's sunny in spite of the snow/hail that's on the ground.

I'm not going out for my new-to-me-again walk until that lot has melted!

Email to the new parents - they have absolutely everything they need for the baby, though I do have a pressie of baby bootees that will probably be welcome.  But what to buy them for Christmas?  Consumables for sure, is my general policy, but what?  My sister suggested the answer - posh snacks, for any time of day, but especially middle of the night when the baby won't settle!  She suggested joandseph's popcorn, I'm wondering about the English Truffle Company.  Email is the answer to the query   

One little project I spend about half an hour on when the fancy takes me late at night is my genealogy book (for private release to rellies).  I'm working on my great-great-great-grandmother Ellen, who had an illegitimate baby in 1856 and managed to keep him by working as a laundress, and didn't go to the workhouse until the last year of her life in 1910, when they were starting to be more like old people's homes anyway.  Words cannot express the admiration I have for this lady.  Her grandson claimed her body from the workhouse, and she was buried in her parents' grave, in a little village still a way out from Liverpool, a lovely peaceful place, a mile or so from where she was born.

Oh, and cleaning the rest of the shopping would be nice.

Suffolk_lass

I love that genealogy anecdote about her grandson. Heart-warming

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

I love that genealogy anecdote about her grandson. Heart-warming

Thank you SL, much appreciated - it touched me too, it took me a while to figure out what had happened, between workhouse practice, her death certificate and the church's burial records.  I wish my grandad had remembered the service, but he was only five years old at the time, so I'll let it go 

I got outside for a walk today!  With my sister - didn't feel well enough to drive anywhere, but we walked through my mangrove-swamp lookalike nature reserve to the mini-farm run by the local school, admiring the sheep they have.  Is it breeding season for pheasants?  Lot of hens in amongst the males.

I hereby declare the rest of today a rest day.