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Just catching up. Sorry about your aunt. And love the patchworks.
As for christmas decorations I put lights up at the cottage early December 2020 and with all the shenanigans they are still upMade it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!4 -
apple_muncher said:We still have fairy lights up in the lounge from about 4 or 5 years ago. And the snowmen ones running up the bannister. I noticed that a neighbour has outside lights on a bush on their back garden all year too!themadvix said:We put up warm white outside lights in Dec 2020 for outdoor socialising all round our garden and then we weren’t even allowed to have people in the garden. The lights have never come down though and they make the garden really pretty. They’re on a smart plug set to come on at sunset so we don’t have to think about putting them on. 😊 Have had so many comments from people (freeglers and Olioers as well as friends) who come into the garden (because our house is back to front and people come in the back gate). Definitely nothing wrong with keeping some cheeriness at this gloomy time of year!
they're certainly kinder than some of the lights I actually use.
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Alchemilla said:The patchwork is gorgeous, KC.themadvix said:Love that patchwork Karma - such a lovely bit of history contained in it.
The history is important too, you're right, madvix - even people from Lancashire don't know about it, and it deserves to be remembered.
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starnac said:Just catching up after a few days. What a fuss with the diary! Who sells a 2021 diary in January 2022?? I actually have an undated diary and I do the same as what has already been said. I use what would be wasted time to fill in the dates. So while I'm waiting for the kids or for a zoom meeting to start etc. It doesn't take long to finish (she says, who has so far only got up to April!!)2023: the year I get to buy a car6
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Watty1 said:Just catching up. Sorry about your aunt. And love the patchworks.
Thanks for both, Watty - there are several cousins who attend the funerals of that generation, that I'm vaguely in touch with on fb, but I *know* that if I tell them, it would become a problem. So I'm holding off on contact altogether, which is a problem in itself.
As for christmas decorations I put lights up at the cottage early December 2020 and with all the shenanigans they are still upI'm definitely going to put up my fairy lights
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Afternoon all! Well, after a walk at the local NT place yesterday with my sister, and a U3A chat with a local guy and his wife in our Spaceflight group, late starts here on both days. Very nice reasons to be late though.
Not sure I'm going to do a huge amount todaythough I started the French accounts last night, including the structure of the folders on my laptop, so I might fill in those figures, so I can send them off when everything's in. It's so nice to be catching up with myself.
Possibilities: French tax figures, washing machine on, put dehydrator trays in the dw ready to take up the slack when the wm's finished. Tidy upstairs: some of the things I said I'd "finished" aren't finished at alltsk!
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What did you do in the end, KC?4
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Alchemilla said:What did you do in the end, KC?
absolutely nothing. I cooked pasta with frozen veg and nuts (walnuts and brazils) which was something, but nothing else at all, oops.
I slept in this morning till 9am as well **horror**. So I've done a quick chat with my sister, a couple of emails, put the washing machine on, and that's about it. Only starting lunch now, as I got up so late, but this afternoon I'll be doing more from that list I wrote yesterday. Thanks for keeping me on track, Alchemilla!
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Evening all! Gosh, I've had a very techy day today. Started with finally unpacking one of those bistro camping stoves, I bought it a few years ago from Halfords. Finally decided to get it out because I've had a few power cuts recently, thankfully just after I'd eaten - if I'd needed even to heat water, it would've been a question of learning to use this thing on the fly, or experiment with my diy rocket stove (and I guarantee you that would never have happened). A stiff latch for the cartridge cover meant I was a little despairing for a while there, but all good now.
Then ... skype! I booked a call with a friend, and though we've been texting happily through skype, I couldn't get on to the call system. Nightmare. I was seeing pretty backgrounds, and my friend was seeing nothing (she saidmaybe she had me filtered as a cartoon dinosaur or something
). Must practice that, I've decided to call my own mobile number on another day, to practise - it's obviously my skype settings on this laptop, I haven't used it on this one before.
Then ... zoom! Even worse. For 20 minutes, I wandered about my emails, the browser, the microsoft store, the internals of the zoom app, nightmare. Managed it completely by chance in the end, I'm sure I couldn't replicate what I did. But National Archives Ireland were holding a webinar, and up to date knowledge is priceless - 3 of my threads go back to Ireland.
And finally ... AmaS0n. Because of those pesky power cuts (I just went to bed when they happened, it was 8pm so acceptable to read and loiter up there for a while) I was wondering about something to provide heat if there was a problem. A lot of the units are really expensive - £80 is cheap, most are around £200, or just under. So I found a fairly well regarded seller with a 20% price cut of one that's cheap anyway, and got a little heater that uses the same cartridges as the little bistro stove, for £24. Plus a few more extra cartridges, also at a good price.
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Well done KC
on all fronts! Semi-accomplished is 1/2 way there!
OH says he's used several of those little heaters of the years and they are very good! He suggests that there is also a light attachment for those canisters & that way you would have cooking & heat & light if the power goes off! Much safer than candles says he - LOL [I got rid of our candles when I found out our house boiler & cooker were run on gas! - only a wind up radio/flashlight in this house lol]4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!4
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