Travelling On

debtfreeoneday

Oooh I forget about Killing Eve!

beanielou

Some good words with s~~ Scot, Scotland,scunnered, skanky.................

themadvix

Karma, are you sure your dishwasher has a hot water feed? I don’t think most do?

badmemory

My dishwasher is 12 yrs old & is cold water feed, as is my 7 yr old washing machine.  I thought they all were now.

Karmacat

themadvix said:

Karma, are you sure your dishwasher has a hot water feed? I don’t think most do?

No, sorry I didn't write that very clearly.  I meant that having tops on top of whatever dish I've got in the oven would add to the amount of stuff that needs to go into the dishwasher, as I don't wash anything by hand at all because of the arthritis.  

The hot water is a separate thing - I meant that I couldn't hand wash the tops of whatever I was cooking because I don't put the hot water on except when I'm having a shower.  My dishwasher, as you and bad memory are saying, is cold feed.  Babble .... babble .... babble!

Karmacat

debtfreeoneday said:

Oooh I forget about Killing Eve!

There's often criticism of last episode/last season these days, and I haven't got to the last ep yet, but I'm loving it.  The script is diamond, the performances are brilliant, I've always liked Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer is a scouser  

beanielou said:

Some good words with s~~ Scot, Scotland,scunnered, skanky.................

So there are!  Go Scots!  I will now be Supine, as I Stumble to Sleep.  See what I did there? 

Suffolk_lass

If you put a bit of biological washing powder (or about a quarter of a crumbled cube) in a jug of boiling water and gently warm your over it will help lift the skanky stuff. I do my combi microwave grill that way. Although I heat the water in the jug on the microwave setting and the steam has a magical effect. I also pour a dribble on the base and let it fester sit for a few hours and using heavy kitchen paper or disposable rags it just wipes off

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

I also pour a dribble on the base and let it fester sit for a few hours and using heavy kitchen paper or disposable rags it just wipes off

And therein lies the tale  that's why its still sitting on my lovely new work surface  I get halfway and stop.  For a looong time.  The disgustingness is actually about me, not my oven tray 

Karmacat

Morning all!  My lack of sleep over the last week has finally caught up with me - I had a better sleep last night, but you know that feeling where you're so tired that starting to catch up makes you feel worse?  That's how I feel right now.  So, not very much has been done.  I managed to have my usual breakfast and hot drinks, finished off filling the dishwasher and put it on, and took some frozen veg out of the freezer to defrost for lunch.  And that's it  

I *am* feeling a bit perkier now, though, plus I had some achievements yesterday: did my writing task for the Space Group yesterday, bucketful of green debris for the green bin, and went a walk, only about 30 minutes, but I was outside, and upright and breathing deep, so not too bad.

Today: as I said, perkier, though today is a funny old day in terms of the family, I've been quite aware of that, and very grateful for what I've got and the life I've had.  But today, I need to rest, I need fresh air, and that's about it: the jobs list to fulfil that is:

- online finance: April's money shuffle not yet started, bank account not checked recently, and statements not downloaded.  All of that can be rectified, and it's all routine, nothing freaky.

- garden: I could stand around in the garden looking meaningfully at the scrap wood on top of the collapsing decking at the bottom of the garden.  The plan is to make raised beds, and there's certainly enough wood there.  I've recently had an epiphany about reinforced and easy corners by using stubs, made of really thick offcuts, they're leftover from fencing posts.  Plus more deep breathing, which activates the lymph system, anti-inflammatory self-help.

Karmacat

New monthly budget

Another job I did when I needed to sit still and not do anything much was an updated budget, and this is it:
113 council tax (the annual amount divided by 12, not what will actually be taken)
110 utilities
14  water
11  home and contents insurance
14  tv licence
6   starz, for a little while
28  vodafone, broadband and landline, both unlimited.
15  mobile: it was £9 plus VAT when I joined last year, just been put up, and this is now the actual sum deducted.
125 food.  My monthly bill is less than this, but I also do a big top up shop from Healthy Supplies every 6 months or so, for veggie protein like nuts and seeds, and there are a few things I get from Amazon, like ashwagandha and ground linseed.
436 total each calendar month.

I also have a couple of Regular Savers, though they partly use savings that aren't doing much as well as "leftover" income.  Occasional items such as diy, home items (a sofa!), covid tests, holidays, I'm not budgeting because to me, at least, that implies spending - much better for my understanding of my figures to say this is what comes in, this is what has to go out.  Everything else is negotiable.

Income: £725 every 4 weeks.  I just tried to log in to my current account, and I've failed the log in procedure twice.  This is not good.  So that takes the place of everything else today.  Very concerned in case I've got another fraud case on the go  


ETA  just been through re-registering for online banking, all seems fine.  No idea what was going on, it may have been something really simple, but its all done now.  I did the first part of the money shuffle, but I didn't stop at the bank website to do any of the downloading of statements, not after that slight panic.