Travelling On

themadvix

Great progress there KC! 

apple_muncher

Wow. Dusting eh? Not much of that happens here...

Alchemilla

Nor here @apple_muncher!

Cheery_Daff

Love that you have that many items on a list and can tick of that big a percentage! Very impressive!

Karmacat

Hello lovely ones I try to do things on that list - other stuff crops up, like the funeral or the holiday, yep, but I do what I can.

I'm pleased with what I've managed today - I started getting domestic mojo a couple of months ago, and its just carried on - I'll be away for a fair while in August, so much that I've asked my neighbour to look out for the house the whole time I'm away - but he won't be gardening!  It needs to be left in some sort of recognisable garden shape  No actual vacuuming/dusting took place, but the office floor is much clearer, and I've done an hour in the garden - given myself a headache by using my right arm at awkward angles too much, but lots done.  Looks like we've avoided the thunder round here, but I'd like some rain, please  

Karmacat

Lovely neighbour (TM) was in my front yard bashing the green bin contents to make room for more - he's sussed I wait until the last weekend to put it in, to leave space for him    

Anyway, I was off for a walk with my sister - just local - and we saw piglets!  Tiny piglets, with their mum laying there fresh from her wallow, with her babies bouncing around her like lambs (inderneath some apple trees).  Will try and get some more photos this year, over the weekend, they're such a great size.

Late lunch (watching a very old edition of Wipeout USA, oops) and I've listed the SSE share certificates I have to hand.  I must have more somewhere   this is the first step to finally tax sheltering them in an ISA, which means I don't have to traumatise myself every year to find out what I should declare to the taxman.  And I won't pay the tax, of course.

Otherwise, I think today is tidying - 4 sets of pluglets that died on me, so I'm emptying out the coconut fibre onto the garden, adds organic substance to my claggy soil, so that's good.  Cleaning them and putting them away will leave me space ... for the sewing machine!  I'd dearly love to sew a single seam and make a sarong into a nightie, before the cruise, using up stash and saving £15 - £20.

Also need to make notes for the space meeting next week, though I think I might need to zoom it - the other two participants have both been travelling internationally (are at this moment travelling internationally) and if I come down with covid now, that puts my own trip in jeopardy.  Picking it up because of *my* trip is one thing - picking it up because of someone else's trip is quite another.

Any more weeding I can do today would also be a good thing.

22p won on HW the last few days.

Karmacat

Weeding done yesterday for an hour, though not a huge amount else - I'm well into a freebie on kindle, properly published.  Took a walk in the morning to try to get a pic of the piglets, but I think they don't let them out at the weekend.

I decided to do another list  of things that need to be done before I go away, all connected more or less to the trip:

1. cancel starz payment 2. space research for meeting

3. covid checks on nhs app

4. charge and load new kindle

5. charge batteries for torch

6. wash new purchases

7. clean flowerpots and kitchen table

8. get sewing machine to kitchen

9. check youtube videos for sewing

10. make a nightie from sarong

11. sort money with sister

12. get natwest card functional

13. download tax documents 14. back up computer

15. pay French management charge

16. check july birthdays etc

17. currency

18. destination research

19. language research

20. make woolly hat from scarf

21. weeding

22. planting perennials

23. automatic watering inside

24. present for Norfolk rellie 25. clear bed in 2nd bedroom to put suitcase there. 26. get power bank into use. Four weeks!  Should be fine, quite a few things only need 5 minutes.  Today, space research, cleaning flowerpots and kitchen table, weeding (which is going well). ETA four more: 27. nail polish on toes 28. cook flapjacks 29. buy covid tests (compulsory, can't use NHS ones). 30. print necessary documents - insurance, covid cert, all that.

Karmacat

Right, that was good!  Dishwasher on, an hour's weeding and cutting back, and all of the research I intend to do for the U3A space meeting.  Chuffed!  Now to eat something and watch more Outlander.

Karmacat

Good Lord!  Trying to do item no 3, covid pass on the nhs - letter was only valid for May, so I thought I'd try digital.  Wow.  Scanning my face using my phone, uploading driving licence (passport not good enough, they couldn't see the detail).  Astonishing.  I have to wait 24 hours before they tell me if the ID processes were good enough, we'll see.

Hold that thought.  As I was typing, email approval came through - and apparently, all that was just to get an NHS account, not the covid pass itself.  But at least they might now let me do it.  I'll try it, and then reward myself with a frugal brownie I cooked yesterday.... 


eta - DONE IT!  Downloaded to phone and to laptop - I'll print it out, along with insurance documents, later in the week.  Good heavens.

Cheery_Daff

Goodness, you definitely deserve that chocolate brownie!!