Travelling On

themadvix

An excellent review there Karma! All of life’s jobs will remain forever, but you have to seize opportunities for doing and living when you can! This list is definitely that! 

Karmacat

Thanks both!  The individual jobs I've been doing are fine, but it's been getting a bit top-heavy, so I'm correcting that.  

Today is a mix of both  I need to do a bit more research on satellite launches from the UK for tomorrow's meeting, and I need to do some more weeding to put in the green bin tomorrow.  That's it, though I'm sure there are opportunities for more   

Karmacat

Karmacat said:

I need to do a bit more research on satellite launches from the UK for tomorrow's meeting, and I need to do some more weeding to put in the green bin tomorrow.  That's it, though I'm sure there are opportunities for more   

Well, there *were* opportunities for more, but ... I followed the plan  I did hours on UK spaceports, and then an hour on the green bin.  I'm loathing summer snowdrops even more - when I eventually get a knot of bulbs out of the ground, their invasiveness is apparent, and they look like they're trying to eat each other.  I may be anthropomorphising just a tiny little bit  but the other reason for digging them up is real - they're flopping against my lovely new fence, and I'm not having that.  Plus I've kept leeway underneath it not only to protect the fence from the damp, but also to provide hedgehog pathways, and they're literally blocking everything for about six feet.  No longer 

Suffolk_lass

It's time to confess I want to buy some summer snowdrops...

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

It's time to confess I want to buy some summer snowdrops...

Sorry!  Omigod, sorry!  Plenty of people round here grow them on purpose, and they fit well into some gardens, but I've never curated them as they got blown in on the wind, and there's an insane number of them - all told, there's probably a wheelie bin full, and that's only half of them gone.  I'd offer to send you some, but they're nearly all speared through by my garden fork, I have to go so deep to get at the bulbs.  My ambition is to have plants that are useful to me and pollinators, as I've been wittering on about - comfrey, a couple more fruit bushes, a couple of courgette plants, tall stuff at the back, smaller stuff like a block of basil plants, chard, in front.  It's all I can think of at the moment - I promise the space will all be used, and the bees will love it!

Karmacat

So, I've been to my Space Group this morning, and found two really useful things:

- making a list on Twitter is easy peasy, I can put my science people on a list and they're not overwhelmed by other stuff (I don't post, I just read, and Like).  The List stops the science stuff getting overwhelmed by everyday stuff and Ukraine stuff.

- I wanted a shower as soon as I got in, but I only managed to put the water on for about 25 minutes.  Frankly, I expected it to be lukewarm at best, but it was still hot, I still had to temper it with water from the cold tap!  Very pleased, that's a big cut down in what a shower costs me, I've been putting the water on for double that.

- Starz had a great offer, £1.99 a month for 6 months, but I think I've missed it, rats.  Going to check now.  And I think that's it for today  

earthgirl2

I liked your review Karma. I realised I had been working or doing chores all the time and not enjoying a lot of life. In some ways I'm not changing anything, I'm just trying to think of ways of enjoying the time of my life more, the seasons, my house and garden, relatives, working less...

For example, I'm getting books out of the library about spring, lighting candles more, getting things planted in the garden, seeing little lambs, enjoying the time to myself now that the kids are seeing a lot of their friends, really enjoying spending time with people when I'm with them. So not much really different, but just making an effort to enjoy it more!

Like vix said, I guess the jobs will always be there!

rtandon27

KC - there is wisdom in your mullings!  So true that the stuff of life is our relationships! I've been focusing on family and friends each day for a few months now and find that it provides such joy for both sides. Lessons learned from the past two years is that we are social creatures!

Karmacat

Thanks both!  There are definitely lessons from the last 2 years, RT, for sure.  For instance, I'm really anti-social, I don't enjoy lots of socialising, never really did (or altered my body chemistry, shall we say, to cope with it  ) but even I have suffered with not having enough socialising over this time.  

Planning some changes is currently enough to cope with that, for the moment: knowing that there's a couple of holidays, and a family visit to Norfolk, plus figuring out what I can safely do here ... it helps.  Of course, there are record infections amongst the over 55s, and 1 in 10 get long covid, even with mild cases that's what happens, so it's not a good time right now to change my routines.  

I'll keep going in the house and garden so that when I choose to emerge from my chrysalis into the world, I'll be emerging from a beautiful, diamante studded chrysalis with stunning settings of rich tapestry    In other words, my house and garden work will have paid off 

To that end - dishwasher is on, porch is cleared, I have to wash my coat from yesterday, there's a huge supermarket shop coming this afternoon and I'll need to clean at least the frozen food.

Best news of all 😁😁😁 even though the good Starz offer has gone, I've taken up the normal offer - a week free, and then £6 a month.  I want to see all of Outlander, Station Eleven and The White Queen, at a minimum - and when I think of what the DVDs would cost, £6 a month for a couple of months is fine.  That's the only fun money I've spent since the AirBNB holiday in Hampshire last summer, I think it's fair enough.  Already watched a couple of Outlander episodes  

Karmacat

Afternoon all! 
- Outlander is chunnering on, I'm a third of the way through the first season. 
- About 80% of the shopping is cleaned and dry, which is a big improvement on previous shops, I'm sad to say   
- Tweaked my twitter account - I understand lists!  I now have a list called "Space" this is a standard of living thing, not a money thing, so I'm happy with that.
- Sister exposed to covid again, though still testing negative, so we compromised on our morning walk - we went a walk, but she didn't come into my house.
- Cleaning is becoming more important: my niece has got a rescue cat!  Which means that when she manages to go away for a holiday, the cat will be here.  It's an indoor cat, so thats okay, but my skirting boards are not only covered in a layer of dust so old its hardened, there's also been a fair amount of insecticide because of various incomings that I don't *want* to be incomings.  The cleaning will be good for me, good for the cat.
- It's my ambition to get a specialised leaf mould storage thing going before next season.  On the walk this morning, I saw a piece of what looked like a garden fence on top of a skip, which would be great for one side.  Spoke to the householder, who was happy for us to take it (if it was me on my own, I'd have had to drag it, but two of us was entirely possible).

Plan for the next few days:
- finish cleaning shopping.
- use the saw on the mahonia.  
- hunt back on madvix's thread to find her instructions about the HW, as I asked specifically at the tiem
- work on the curtains for upstairs.  Two pieces of physical work, two pieces of sitting down work, thats good for me