Travelling On

Karmacat

Morning!  I made a coconut cake **revels in imaginary applause** and it tastes nice!  I also cooked some lentils, just on their own to have with pasta and veg with another portion for today.  Very happy with that.  Today, not so much activity - my hair desperately needs a wash, all the things that are boring but necessary.  The only other thing that's a must-do is to make a list, because there are phone calls and emails I *need* to make tomorrow.  Enjoy  

Cheery_Daff

Oooh, coconut cake, how delicious! Have a piece for me! I have no cake here, a lamentable situation indeed 🙄😂

apple_muncher

Cake sounds great. Much applause form the apple household

Karmacat

Thank you both!  **curtsies bashfully**

I looked for the easiest possible recipe that would use both flour and dessicated coconut, and bob became my uncle   

Managed to wash my hair, need to cut it before it dries.  There's the dickens of a storm outside!  I hadn't checked   but all's good here  

Alchemilla

Cake sounds scrummy.

Karmacat

Thanks!

Well, I didn't cut my hair - nor have I loaded the dw.  Bad KC!  Norty!  But my hair was thoroughly washed, at least, in the shower, and I changed the bed. 

So, the list for tomorrow, I can do that since it involved me sitting still    It's all fiddly, but it all needs doing:
- get prepared to phone Sains, and then do it.
- email U3A space group, bro's trip down here clashes with our meeting.
- email nephews re bro's pressie.
- dw on.
- wm on.
- take living room curtains down to be washed***
- ring bro about him helping me with sawing a bookcase up, he really does like helping, and this is destructive, so its all good.
- submit the French accounts if I have time.
- do the next bit of the money shuffle.
- clean hob.  Rice water overflowed twice, its disgusting.  Tidying isn't going too badly, but there's always more, lets face it.

*** I want them out of the way when double glazing guy is here, and in any case they haven't been washed for a number of years **whistles innocently** wide-slatted venetian blinds are still up.


ETA - another 2 items I must do soon: start using the NW app, as it promises £1 a month simply for doing so; and the HW that I asked madvix about.  Hmmm.  Might do an amended February plan, since a week of it is now taken up with bro's visit in any case.

Night night all  

Alchemilla

Night, KC xxx

Karmacat

Morning!  Hope you slept well, Alchemilla, I'll check on you in a sec.  I let myself get the sleep I needed, so I wasn't up till 8.15, but that's okay.  At least I got the washing machine going straight away, and now the dishwasher's on, and I've done a little bit of tidying.  Plus I have leftovers ready to throw into the microwave for lunch.

Now ... to attend to the rest of the list in my previous post.  I think I might do Sains first, get it out of the way.

Karmacat

Right, done the Sains call - stressful, but good.  I expect a lot of my complaints, especially the ones I wrote in November, to be answered with "our policies were carried out correctly".  But some, the woman already accepted were fair enough.  

She misunderstood the level of my anger at first, but eventually realised.  Plus the level of chronic fatigue: she thought an hour's finance/phone work was when I was having an attack: no, sez I, that's when I'm well - and I could hear the surprise in her voice.   I refused to tell her the reasons for chronic fatigue attacks, accepted the description "stress related".

She told me that the certified copy of my passport has been "safely destroyed", and when I asked why hadn't I been told that, she had to admit they were in the wrong.  Then I asked about the original recent Council Tax Bill, about whether that had also been destroyed?  She thought so, but didn't know, and pledged to find out.

She asked me what support they could have given me in place of going to the Post Office to get the certified copy?  I didn't know she was going to ask that, but for instance they could have accepted a two-route proof: I could have sent a passport copy by email, and then we could have had a Zoom or Teams or Skype video phone call where I could have held up the same passport.  She was gobsmacked at that.  I mentioned they could send me a consultants fee  

There was a lot!  35 minutes.  Bringing the washing in now, then relaxing for a bit.

Alchemilla

Karmacat said:

Right, done the Sains call - stressful, but good.  I expect a lot of my complaints, especially the ones I wrote in November, to be answered with "our policies were carried out correctly".  But some, the woman already accepted were fair enough.  

She misunderstood the level of my anger at first, but eventually realised.  Plus the level of chronic fatigue: she thought an hour's finance/phone work was when I was having an attack: no, sez I, that's when I'm well - and I could hear the surprise in her voice.   I refused to tell her the reasons for chronic fatigue attacks, accepted the description "stress related".

She told me that the certified copy of my passport has been "safely destroyed", and when I asked why hadn't I been told that, she had to admit they were in the wrong.  Then I asked about the original recent Council Tax Bill, about whether that had also been destroyed?  She thought so, but didn't know, and pledged to find out.

She asked me what support they could have given me in place of going to the Post Office to get the certified copy?  I didn't know she was going to ask that, but for instance they could have accepted a two-route proof: I could have sent a passport copy by email, and then we could have had a Zoom or Teams or Skype video phone call where I could have held up the same passport.  She was gobsmacked at that.  I mentioned they could send me a consultants fee  

There was a lot!  35 minutes.  Bringing the washing in now, then relaxing for a bit.

Well done, KC. I had to zoom with my passport for my new job. X