Travelling On

themadvix

Ooh, that's a good call on the oven warming usage Karma - I love thinking of little things like that - it all makes a difference!

debtfreeoneday

We clocked How much my shower cost this morning and I’m usually pretty swift in there. 26p. The kids must do twice that!  

Karmacat

Thanks lovely peeps - it's obvious that with the way prices are rising, it's these little things that will enable us to keep going and not impact our standard of living too much.  

A bitty day that has some actual accomplishments today:

- decided not to bother with the healthy walk any more.  Discounting the time when it was cancelled because of covid, I've been going for 3 years now, and trying to enjoy it, rather than enjoying it.  It's partly about when I leave the house, and partly about the vibe.  It's just not me, and I'm tired of trying.  I'll try the monthly, longer walk, from the same place, we'll see how that goes.

- enquired by email about selling my SSE shares and rebuying to put in an ISA - ridiculous that I haven't done it before, but there it is

- another clump of summer snowdrops dug up!  With assorted couch grass.  Bumblebee on the heather right by it was undisturbed  

- pinned and sewed the channel at the top of one piece of cheesecloth, the channel that takes the tension rod.  Feeling very virtuous 😎 

- I even tried to do a YG survey, but it was about ventilation at work, and that was a no-no   

Not much else, really, each of those things took a fair old while, but it's all steady progress  

themadvix

That sounds like a lot of progress! And I think you can definitely allow yourself to give up the healthy walks at this point if you’re still not enjoying them!

debtfreeoneday

That is lots of progress. All those bitty bits add up. 

Karmacat

Thanks both!  Yep, I'll be carrying on with the hand-sewing and the summer snowdrop removal today too.  Dishwasher has finished its cycle, phone call to bro arranged for tomorrow, frozen veg for lunch is defrosting, all's well.  

The sun is shining/dark clouds cover the sky  both these things are true this morning - but they both look good, so I'm off out for a morning walk, ta-da!  Technically, I should drop some stuff at a charity shop, or at least put the empty bags of frozen veg in the recycling at Waitrose, but I'm not going to, I'm going to do my normal and walk to the edge of town nearest to me, to get within spitting distance of the countryside see you later, lovely ones  

Cheery_Daff

What are you doing with your summer snowdrops KC? I keep thinking now is probably a good idea to split the clumps of our winter ones but I have no idea really. Ours are hidden away, and I'd quite like some I can see without going on a little trek!

Karmacat

I'm putting them into the green bin for composting Cheery - I recognise that might sound horrendous, but I don't like them and neither do any pollinators - there's no bees or butterflies on them at all, and I've watched very carefully.  What they *are* doing is hogging prime south-facing wall, I could put a lovely row of shrubs there - fruit, comfrey, anything.  I have a holly potted up that could be put there - but I'll check out the wildlife value beforehand, otherwise I'll put it in the front as a bird hide.

My walk was a bit cold  freezing hail and wind, in fact!  

This afternoon - I'm warming up first!  But the washing machine is on, at least I'll do what I can today, before the price skyrockets, and I might as well wash my hair too  no harm in beating the price hikes    But no more summer snowdrops for me today, I'm not going out in that!  Handsewing, I think.

Karmacat

Good morning!  Yesterday ended up with a lot of old-electricity-rate activity: shower, hairwash, dishwasher and two washing machine loads, exhausting.  After all that lot, I took photos of both meters, but the Scottish Power website had crashed, of course.  This morning, their home page had a link for people like me, and I was able to input the figures - though you can't copy and paste the account number, which is slightly off.  Such is life.  I've also sent the pix of the meters to myself, and I'll scrutinise what they do with my charges very carefully.

Had a reply from SSE about my shares - if I want to shelter them in an ISA, I have to let the ISA company do the work.  I have 352 shares now, nearly all as a result of being on the dividend reinvestment scheme, so the first thing to do is check I have all the certificates.  Not today, Josephine.

Wrote an email to my MP about Ukrainian child cancer sufferers whose families aren't automatically entitled to accompany them.  Words fail me, but I got the email out.  Had a phone call with sister, got a phone call with brother coming up.

And I'm considering a massive review post, argh.  I feel like J Alfred Prufrock, "do I dare disturb the universe?"  

Cheery_Daff

Do it! Always love a review post, and we are a third of the way through the year, after all! 😁