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  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 6,836 Forumite
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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 up 
    Made 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 !!
  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,252 Forumite
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    What did you do in the end, KC?
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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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 said  :D maybe she had me filtered as a cartoon dinosaur or something  :D:D:D ).  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.  

    Today I'm a semi-accomplished techie with a semi-accomplished independent heat source  :D:D:D
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,692 Forumite
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    Well done KC :smiley: 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!
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