Travelling On

Karmacat

Right, chatted with sister who seems to have dodged the covid bullet, and oh dear its nearly midday.  So, today's jobs:
- chat [tick]
- caught up on here [tick]
- put the dw on so I can use my larger pan to cook the beans I'm soaking.
Yes, but beans are in the fridge, I'll do those tomorrow.
- check current account, has my February money shuffle all happened?
Yes it has, thank heavens.
- if the Sains money is in my current account, buy the new premium bonds, £1,000, straight away.  No point waiting.
Yes, it came in on Friday, so I bought the bonds.
- saw another bookshelf - I'm only doing one a day, if I can do it, that bookcase held a lot of crap, and it's currently all over the house, I can't bear it!
Did it - not as straight as the first day's cuts, oops, but it still did the job.  

To be done:
- emails: American cousin, Lancashire cousin who sent me a cute little card, U3A begging for a repeat link to a lecture on a local battle as the link expired last night, Norfolk rellies, London friend.
- put French accounts into a format they can be sent to the accountant.  Sounds bad, it *shouldn't* take long.  Should have done it offline.
- ARGH!  This one is for Monday: UK spaceport research.  Oh good grief.  It won't be like I wanted it to be.
- ALSO MONDAY deadline.  See Ed's thread on here and his referral thingy.

Cheery_Daff

Lots of things ticked off there! Glad your sister avoided covid. Yay for more premium bonds! Hopefully they'll go into the end of March draw if you get them bought before the end of Feb, although maybe the weekend will hamper the banking. Better bought than not though!

Karmacat

Hi Cheery, yes, I was pleased with that.  Plus email correspondence on the U3A meeting on Monday and .... £125 from Vodafone! This isn't even the compensation, this is the deal I joined them under, and I completely forgot about it   Chose Amazon (sad but necessary) and inputted the code, its come up with £125 valid for 10 years, as per their usual expiry dates    All from a forgotten email while I was going through the email accounts.  Very worthwhile.  Just finishing a late lunch now, I'll wait a bit then start going again.

beanielou

Walk sounds interesting!

Karmacat

beanielou said:

Walk sounds interesting!

Backstop is genuinely a useful job the variety of people who attend the Level 1 walks is very broad - people on crutches as well as walking sticks, right on to people who've been on the Santiago pilgrimage in northern Spain - so keeping the group a max of, say, 50 yards spread, is actually important, through the village most of all.

I did the shelf sawing this afternoon, and went another walk - slightly elaborate version of "round the block"   Just did one shelf, not two, and that was easier, didn't wreck my shoulder and whatnot.  Watching Matt Baker now  

debtfreeoneday

Welcome back KC. Good news about the Amazon code!

SuperSecretSquirrel

£750 compensation, very nice! Well done on not just letting it slide 💪

The sergeant major KC behaviour on the healthy walk sounds like it would have been a lot of fun too 😄 

Karmacat

SuperSecretSquirrel said:

£750 compensation, very nice! Well done on not just letting it slide 💪
Thanks!  They've still not apologised for destroying the original of my council tax bill, though 'luckily' I have a phone photo, taken just before I popped it in the envelope.  I've been thinking about it, and I think I might ask them to up the level to a round £1000, considering the health issues they ignored.  I get the sense they might do that - no harm asking  

With Vodafone welcome bonus, thats now £875 this month and their compensation for outage will bring it to around £920.

The sergeant major KC behaviour on the healthy walk sounds like it would have been a lot of fun too 😄 

Oh 😄 it *was* quite sergeant-majorish, you're right 😄😄😄 I was only imitating what the real backstop lady does, honest, guv 😄

Glorious weather today!  But I have another shelf to saw, and all the spaceport research to do, as the meeting is tomorrow.  But I'll definitely get out into the sun.  Hope you are too, SSS, I'll hop over to your thread to check it out  

themadvix

I'm sensing that you must be well on the way to this in your signature: October 2021: aiming for £5,000 new money for premium bonds or a car. Not sure you intended it all to be from compensation though! 😂 ... or maybe you did and it's your evil masterplan!

Karmacat

themadvix said:

I'm sensing that you must be well on the way to this in your signature: October 2021: aiming for £5,000 new money for premium bonds or a car. Not sure you intended it all to be from compensation though! 😂 ... or maybe you did and it's your evil masterplan!

Actually, that's true, I'm almost 20% there, aren't I  😂 😂 😂

Did what I planned: took a walk, and did the spaceport notes, but only about 10% yikes  hopefully I'll do a bit later.