Travelling On

themadvix

I found the speed took time to return - I really knew i was better all of a sudden when I wanted to get past slow people in Sainsbury’s!! It has then taken me even longer to get back to general walking at my usual pace - ambling was necessary for a while.

 Glad you took the cleaning stuff in the way it was intended - I’m just being evangelical because it actually seems to work unlike so many eco cleaning ideas (very hard water round here - vinegar just doesn’t cut it).

Karmacat

themadvix said:

I found the speed took time to return - I really knew i was better all of a sudden when I wanted to get past slow people in Sainsbury’s!! It has then taken me even longer to get back to general walking at my usual pace - ambling was necessary for a while.
That's good to know - I got quite a bit better, and it feels like it's stalled.  It'll be a week tomorrow, I think, that I started ambling, so we'll see how it goes.

 Glad you took the cleaning stuff in the way it was intended - I’m just being evangelical because it actually seems to work unlike so many eco cleaning ideas (very hard water round here - vinegar just doesn’t cut it).

Heavens yes!  Cleaning really is a gap in my environmental efforts.  I'll use up the ordinary chemical stuff I've got, wasting it would be awful, but I'll definitely switch.

Suffolk_lass

A bottle of cheap cola in the toilet and left overnight removes all the limescale (about 35p a litre in the own brand variety) and a green scrubby thing once a week on the walls and doors of the shower gets rid of soap scum. I then use a windscreen glass spray and it stops the water "sticking" and streaking the glass and tiles/board

themadvix

Not here it doesn't SL - have tried the coke and vinegar options and just not enough for our limescale! 

Karmacat

Environmentally, cheap cola and windscreen spray won't be as friendly I don't think.  And, erm, I hate to confess it, but that's a *lot* more cleaning than I do  for sure, my shower screen doesn't get cleaned weekly.  Or monthly.  There are fewer people using it, of course **whistles innocently** OMG!

Anyway, the dishwasher's on (that needs cleaning too  although not as badly) spoke to bruv, texted sis as we're both still coughing like mad, and I've brought the curtain tape and the dressmaking pins down to check the real-life curtain width before I cut.  This will be quite a big project!

themadvix

I'd agree on the environmental aspect Karma. And my shower screen only gets cleaned when the house is going on the market 🤣 (that said, I'll give the citric acid a go on it - I'd love it to be clear and stay clear, but only if minimal effort is required). Citric acid can do dishwasher cleaning according to that article too - I'll be using up my eco-friendly dw cleaning tabs first though. And it won't happen any time soon unless it's a major problem - costs too much to be running empty washes on the dw and wm! 

Hope the coughing eases soon.

Karmacat

Sounds good, madvix  🤣 especially about the house going on the market  🤣 

See what I mean about needing more research - citric acid in the dishwasher too?  Potentially excellent news, the tablets smell so chemically.  

I've started on the curtain tape - completely forgot about leaving one end loose for the gather  but I think I can make it work.  Annoyingly, this lovely wide tape has already been cut (by me!) into 40/45 inch lengths, heaven only knows why.  It doesn't take a lot more work to sort it, and I definitely want to use it.

Managed to submit my meter readings, woooo!  Last submitted on 21st June, its now 8th September,  that's 11 weeks, less 15 days being on holiday, and I'll call that 21 days actually, because I did so little when I was ill.  8 weeks net useage: I used 2 gas units, and the charge for my gas, because of the standing charge, is £26.42!  This is why Martin's campaigning against it.  Anyway, at least I'm in credit - to the tune of £138.67.

themadvix

Our gas usage is very similar in the summer - we only use it for hot water for sinks/basins/very occasional bath - the shower is electric and cooking is too. The standing charge makes up such a lot of it!

Sounds like good progress with the curtain tape

No plans to put house on the market any time soon - just seems to have been an annual occurrence recently! 🤣

Karmacat

This is a strange morning.  I feel a bit sad for the Queen and her family - it's been very quick, and very unexpected in that way - but being glued to news channels with live broadcasts from endless places and ready-made reviews isn't helpful to her, her family or me.  So I'm carrying on, in full awareness that its a sad time.

And that means the curtains.  The complications of lining curtains that are hanging from a pole, when the pole runs *through* the rings set into the curtains, not dangling from them (and I don't want them to dangle) is complicated - it means two sets of tape, basically.  The big tape I was working on yesterday, I can sew that flat onto the curtain.  The narrow curtain tape usually used for linings, I can sew that onto the lining, and use normal curtain hooks to connect them.  Before I go any further, I'm going to try that out and see if that's feasible.  

I'd be prepared to buy some lightweight metal thingummajigs, but I don't want to buy anything else that's plastic, and I'd rather not buy anything at all - this is all about saving money and saving environmental costs, plus using up my stashes of various things.

Right, off to muck about with the tapes.

Ramouth

I would never have thought of using curtain tape and hooks to attach a lining - genius!