Travelling On

Karmacat

I love that!  Thanks for putting that one in, Suffolk Lass  

Karmacat

Today I have:

- nattered with sister, and as a result:
- ordered some stuff from a travel clothing firm - the dreaded mosquito hat  , a Craghopper fleece for £5, natural insect repellent bands for wrists and ankles, and .... a balaclava.  That will stop my facial neuralgia killing me!  It's often 3 degrees out there, even in July.
- tidied recycling out of the house and into the bin.
- put the courgettes outside to have some sun, and brought them in again when it turned out they weren't keen.
- got some washing out.
- did the Happy Wheel.
- opened the post, finally!  U3A have realised no one wants a printed magazine, this should be the last one, the other stuff is all about finances - premium bond win this month, the new credit card, and a cash account is maturing, I'll have to decide what to do with that.
- sorting photographs into piles, and checking out a tiny little photo album from the 1930s.

I've actually *done* very little, not even much fun stuff.  I'll get the dishwasher going and onwards to other stuff.

Alchemilla

Well done, KC. Busy bee!

apple_muncher

I'm wondering how the courgettes told you they weren't keen on being outside!

'I've actually *done* very little, not even much fun stuff.  I'll get the dishwasher going' - I sincerely hope that getting the dw going does not count as 'fun stuff'!!!!!

Karmacat

apple_muncher said:

I'm wondering how the courgettes told you they weren't keen on being outside!
Courgettes are telepathic, didn't you know   

Erm, realistically, they were wilting! 

'I've actually *done* very little, not even much fun stuff.  I'll get the dishwasher going' - I sincerely hope that getting the dw going does not count as 'fun stuff'!!!!!

The dishwasher really, really doesn't count as fun  I watched some Outlander, and I followed a hobby - genealogy.  The sea really took its toll on the branch of the family I'm working on - so, inquest reports, newspaper descriptions, and *understanding* someone's life.  It's not "fun" in the sense of a fairground, but I like it  

Karmacat

I'm trying to make today a work day, making the days different from one another:
- admin chat with sister, so I rejigged my extremely verbose email to her about AirBNB, and did some research on what we can do after the birthday party for the Norfolk rellie.
- tidied up the washing hanging around, including putting sox out on the line, which I very rarely do
- Happy Wheel had nothing to offer me today 
- Boots delivery of travel stuff is due between 10.20am and 2.20pm today - I'm watching like a hawk, my doorbell is capricious, lets say
- oh, one bit of the money shuffle left to do.
 
Later
- ahem.  There's still some shopping I need to clear away.
- pack the green bin as full as I can, collection day is tomorrow.  Have to be careful about that, because of the Boots delivery, I can't get stuck at the back of the house - travel sickness pills mean the stuff has to be signed for.
- I'm wondering about making polenta, I have a lot of it kicking around.  It would be nice to use it.  We'll see, I'm not convinced that's going to happen, I'm reading a really good book for an online book group 

Karmacat

Boots parcel has turned up.  No travel sickness tabs, no paracetemol, no mosquito defence wrist bands (though I've also ordered those from the travel firm, so ...)  really bad.

themadvix

What?? That's awful! (One wonders what was in it if so much was missing!) Will it come in another parcel or have they just cancelled these items? That is *so* poor.

Karmacat

It's weird, isn't it!  They do say to leave 3 days before a parcel doesn't turn up (which is gobsmacking in its own right) but there were never 2 parcels tracking, just one, so something's gone badly wrong.  I'll phone them tomorrow.

Plus I just had an email from them saying that my advantage points were about to expire next week (convenient for them).  So they had an offer on good quality Nivea moisturiser-with-spf15, better than my usual stuff, originally £11.49, currently 2 for £15.  And I had exactly £15 points available - too much to lose.  £15 is also the cutoff for free collection, so I can do that.  

I rejigged my email to my sister, minimum verbiage, and she's booked the cottage for the Norfolk rellie stay.  I've also made a few notes about a little bit of touristy stuff while we're there, always like to fit some in   

Rats, I forgot to do the money shuffle, because I was looking out for the Boots parcel.

Green bin successful - neighbour pulled it over the road to the collection point, bless him, and I filled it up with 5 bucketloads - I wait till the day before, it's his bin, after all.  About 20% more of the garden is once again accessible, the cats are walking there already   

No polenta, no reading for online book group, I worked hard at the green bin stuff.

apple_muncher

Yah boo and hiss to b00ts and their pathetic version of your order!