Travelling On

themadvix

Ahh... if it's Vodaphone (landline) and Three (mobile), then that's the same as us. For calling America earlier in the year, the landline was *vastly* cheaper as I recall (I had to ring to book our horse riding! )

This should help with vodafone: Your Call Charge Guide for Vodafone Home Broadband and Phone (19p connection charge, 15p/minute for calls to landlines)

And this for Three: Destination Details (three.co.uk) (if you pay monthly - there's a dropdown at the top to change it.

Karmacat

Aw, thank you!  Yes, that's the way round I have my contracts.  I should have come here to check before I looked it up ... 😔  I found the same file as you on vodafone, but they also seemed to offer an actual person on the chat line - they've put the figure up to 19p per minute from 15p, Kevin tells me 🙃  Paying out of contract for Three gives a similar rate, 19.5p per minute.  

I can't face doing it today, and I'm figuring out my zoom settings with my U3A space buddy on Monday, so I'll email the bank and say I'm phoning at such and such a time, it costs me this, please reassure me that someone can take my call and do the thing I need.  So to speak 😮

I've done little bits and bobs.   Managed to speak to sister; messaged somebody on Ancestry about a Lancashire rellie born in 1790; wrote to Norfolk rellies; made contact again with space buddy 🌞, bought £1k premium bonds (NSandI have already confirmed the money's in my account), tidied laundry, put dishwasher on and cancelled the milk that was in my Waitrose order, realised how mad it was to buy 4 pints of milk for custard 👀 

Right.  Cup of coffee and a shower.   I declare this the start of my weekend 🌈

elantan

Have a great weekend 

Karmacat

Thanks El!  Started off well - won 50p free and clear on the Happy Wheel, money there now stands at £23.36, £5 of which was my seed money.  I can't do proper Happy Wheel stuff like Cheery's doing till all these other accounts are settled, and of course its taking ages.

Frozen veg and frozen beans defrosting - no point cooking them immediately you take them out of the freezer, after all!  Washing machine is on - I'm washing the professionally made curtain that I can adapt to the kitchen window, I'll hang it onto the tension rod that I've hung from hooks instead of relying on tension 🤣  And Waitrose are coming here between 1-2pm.  

I was going to be a bit lazy today, but there's a family emergency brewing - it may never explode, but if it does, my house needs to be available, so I'm doing a bit of easy lopping (ie I can stand up) while I wait for Waitrose, cleaning the shopping is a priority.

pinkypig

Enjoy the rest of the weekend Karma and 🤞 your family situation calms down x

Karmacat

Thanks Pinky!  Today looks sunny, I'll be out for a walk soon, my sister's getting better after she got given some super duper antibiotics, and as for the family emergency ... it will pop up every so often indefinitely, always unexpected but always needing attention when it does.

Anyway, I'll be out for that walk, and I've decided to use up some pea flour I bought last year from Healthy Supplies, oops ... found a nice simple pancake recipe, 2 minutes each side.  It uses the hob, of course, but so it goes.

That's it 🌞  here's to the sunshine 

smutput

 Back to sensitive skin, I have recently switched to French lavender soap and it seems to have cleared up a particularly stubborn patch of psoriasis. My skin is also a lot less dry. I gather it doesn't suit everyone though so DYOR etc...

Karmacat

Thanks smutput (what an interesting name!).  I usually use unscented soap or shampoo, plus I get a regular input of clay-based Clarins cleanser for my face, from my sister in law, it's much too dear to buy myself.  Lavender might be a bit strong as a scent, but I have some essential oil somewhere, I might give it a go.

Karmacat

I've just been focussing on my u3a space group and assorted needs:

- went out to my local space buddy and we spent an hour trying to reconcile Zoom with Microsoft 10 operating system.  He was a computer engineer all his working life.  Nope!  S-mode, for Security Mode, is the killer.  

- it was *very* easy to install Zoom properly on my Android phone, though, so I joined in on the meeting that way this morning.  I might join twice - once to communicate with the other two, and once on my laptop so I can see diagrams.  

- after the trip to my buddy, I went into M&S to collect the "honeycomb topped" socks I bought the other day.  Their click and collect system is as bad now as it was ten years ago, when I swore never to use them again.  Sigh ... I got them, anyway, that's the main thing.

- absolutely exhausted from the effort of the above, plus I don't have the heating on yet, and my yearly "my nasal passages object, but they're not infected" is making its presence known.  Tricky.

- raining at the moment, and no energy anyway, so I'm indoors, maybe apart from a walk up and down the street to remind my melatonin schedule that its daytime.  Can't do the French call either, that would end badly.  So, the minimum: dishwasher, YG survey, maybe start to clean the Waitrose shopping that arrived on Saturday.  Days like this are extremely boring!

Karmacat

I find I'm a bit helpless without a list on here  so here goes:
- email space buddy about meetings late next month, and watch the whatsapp link he sent about the latest rocket shenanigans.
- get the information together so that I can phone the French bank, and write a rough script.
- carry on catching up with doing the washing - its a *long* time since I washed the towels    might as well do it now before the 20% increase in electricity on Saturday.
- if I can do it without feeling stressed, and the French thing goes okay, send the experimental E20 to my Wise account.
- there's a YG survey in my inbox.  That would be relaxing!
- do a bit of a review of my sensible/soaring September aims - I haven't done as much as I wanted, but I've worked as hard as I could on them.  Most of the time 😛
- meter reading and submission!  Nearly forgot!

Okay, that's 6.  That's enough.