Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery!  The building society were very lovely, I'm still happy about that 😀

I did lots of green bin work over the weekend, went for a walk afterwards so that my body remembered how to stand upright, it was good.

I had to have the heating on with the bathroom window open yesterday I brought the washing in at 4pm, it hadn't dried at all, I really don't want it in the house when its soaking wet like that (spin isn't as good as it used to be).  It's cheaper than buying a dryer, I have to think of it that way.

Today, the main jobs are:
- pay the local horticultural society (£6 annual membership!).
- finish green bin for this week, I can really see the difference.
- send money to new building society.
- email buddy in the city by the sea.
- ring for an appointment for the pneumonia vaccine.
- since the wood fibre underlay turned up over the weekend, if I have any spare energy, giving the existing vinyl a wipedown and faffing with the kilim I managed to find would be good.  Kilim is completely clean, I drycleaned it when I put it into storage, but there's a few patches where it looks like I used bleach on it 😬😬😬 oops.  Ah well.  And I want to trim the tassels on the kilim ends, which will take about 5 minutes.
- other uses for spare energy: a coconut loaf cake, yummity yum, and possibly peeling the potatoes I bought in a fit of enthusiasm.  I think I'm sticking with frozen veg and pasta/rice/other easily cooked carbs.  I think about peeling potatoes and my fingers go funny, the strain of processing veg is a remembered nightmare.  

badmemory

Just wondering why you are peeling spuds?  I don't, not even for mash.  Ignoring my laziness, throwing the peel away isn't very MSE.  Sorry laughing whilst I am typing just in case you wondered.

beanielou

I dont peel spuds either.
JUst wash them.

Karmacat

I used to do that!  It's so long since I've had fresh spuds, I forgot 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks both for the reminder!

Baileys_Babe

Here is the post I wrote this morning and failed to post 🤦 2nd time lucky 🤞

Do you need to peel the potatoes? 
Jacket potatoes no peeling
Wedges no peeling
HM oven chips no peeling
Mash can be done without peeling, boil the potatoes in their skins and then scoop out the flesh and mash.

Karmacat

Baileys Babe, I love it, you're a ⭐.  

I confess, the potatoes aren't happening today either: 30 minute walk plus two sets of weeding, I just don't have it in me.  Plus I need to write a letter for an ex-client of mine, and that's going to take a lot of mental energy over the next day or so. 

John Lennon said it, life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.  Anyway, I managed to join the horticultural society, do all that weeding, and post the cheque off to the building society before things went pear-shaped.  Not bad on it's own!

badmemory

I just mash with skins included & no-one has complained yet & I know at least one who would have complained if they had a problem or even noticed & they are not famed for missing things.

Karmacat

The Range have agreed to refund me £7.99 - don't know how they arrived at that, and I don't really mind, it's generous either way.  

Karmacat

Hmm, my boiler is coming up with a fault signal 0F, which apparently means low pressure.  Not dangerous, but it isn't actually working because of it.  So, a plumber it is -for the first time in my life last month, I had a reminder text about boiler servicing, from a plumbing firm I really like, so I'm ringing their phone number this morning.  Tidying madly for ease of cleaning after their visit.

And when I bought a wireless printer earlier this year, I never got it into action.  That has to happen today, and I have to send a letter recorded delivery.  Yikes.  So I'll try to find anything else I can do in town at the same time, without getting soaked.

We had to postpone the space group meeting - my boiler, my letter take priority - but also the weather, as we're launching a toy rocket 🤣🤣🤣  I can take cold, or wet, but not both, I'm really not up to that.  

In other news, I won 50p on the baby version of the Happy Wheel 🤣 and Amazon are offering me £5 towards a £15 kindle purchase.  I might have a look through and see if there's anything that I really, really want (thank you, Spice Girls).

badmemory

May I suggest that you ask your plumber if the radiators need bleeding afterwards, although he may do it as a matter course after a pressure problem.