Travelling On

ccluedo

https://youtu.be/a3YhF9wn10g

A picture paints a thousand words as they say.. .. which in this case is just as well as it's a Japanese video!😂

Probably others there on da tube but this was first Parup one I came across. 
Hope it helps.. along with the instructions. Good luck! 🤞🙂

Karmacat

beanielou said:

Have you done it yet?!

I have!  Delivery this Saturday, between 7am to 9pm, yikes!  I can't believe they'll be as late as 9pm, I'm only 20-25 miles from the store.  Looking forward to getting those shallow bowls - 75p each, utter bargain, hadn't planned it but very happy.

Karmacat

ccluedo said:

https://youtu.be/a3YhF9wn10g

A picture paints a thousand words as they say.. .. which in this case is just as well as it's a Japanese video!😂

Probably others there on da tube but this was first Parup one I came across. 
Hope it helps.. along with the instructions. Good luck! 🤞🙂

That's so kind to link it, ccluedo!  Thank you!  They have something or other on the store website, so between the two, I should eventually manage.  Though I won't be starting it at nine o clock at night 😲  I'm starting to wonder if I can make a separate appointment for the assembly firm to come along on the Sunday 😲

Karmacat

Haven't heard anything about the sofa yet, though I wasn't really expecting to, but I'm clearing the living room (again!) getting it as clear as possible so I can lay out all the pieces clearly and make putting it together as "easy" as possible 🤣

Anyway, today, I'm defrosting my lunchtime veg, cooking some beans in the slow cooker, and I've sent money to my easy access account for returning to the current account, to meet the rewards criteria.  Plus I opened the app, to earn the £1 monthly reward for using it, and transferred £9 from it to my current account.  

The rest of the jobs: finish tidying my first aid stuff, sponge some of the cat hair off my duvet so I can wash it 😲🙄😺, a bit of online chat with a schoolfriend who reached out to me and my spaceflight group from U3A.  Continuing the tidying for the sofa on Saturday!

themadvix

Thanks for the reminder to open the banking app!

Karmacat

themadvix said:

Thanks for the reminder to open the banking app!

Easiest £1 ever  

I had a reply about the weird French invoices: "Les appels de fonds vous sont envoyés, même si vous ne devez rien, car nous sommes obligés de vous tenir informés régulièrement des opérations qui sont effectuées sur votre compte."  

We have to tell you whats happening, basically, but they're not saying WHY what's happening is happening.  Have they been over charging me?  Was there fraud that they're covering for?  I just know I'm not going to get anything out of them, but at least I'm not currently exposed to any charges of non-payment of bills, there's enough of a paper trail for me to be safe.  Spaceflight chat seen to, in acknowledging the agenda, so I'm off to finish the first aid tidying, as well as the recycling tidying, and then, ta-da, I'll submit my tax return.

Karmacat

Right, done some jobs this morning, as I couldn't see my sister - she has more lurgy from the baby, sounds terrible again.  Babies are definitely viral and bacterial factories!  So, I have:

- ahem, finally sponged down my duvet cover that's been hanging around for a week.  Got rid of a lot of cat hairs that way, then shook it, its now in the machine on a hot wash.  Swept the floor afterwards, too.  Sorry, environment.  I'm much more allergic than I used to be to cat hair, I may not get one of my own, even eventually.

- completed the money shuffle by sending money back to my current account.

- I finished the first aid box tidy, finally!, so now, ta-da, it's the putting-away-the-Christmas-decorations, because yes, I haven't done that yet, it's all the cat's fault, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it 😺🤣🐾   


So now, it's all about the taxes.  The figures are ready, and they're even inputted to the HMRC website.  All I need to do is press a few buttons, the form about the state pension hasn't arrived, as they said it wouldn't (but I hoped anyway), so that's the first job this afternoon.  Not going to do it while I'm hungry, and I *am* 🍰☕

After that, I'm going to have a look at my list.  Yikes!  Things are getting ticked off, finally.  I may yet book some driving lessons next week.

themadvix

Ooh exciting to be booking driving lessons!

My friend had a cat and it turned out was allergic to it - she had to have an inhaler and once the cat went (ETA: died of natural causes!), the asthmatic symptoms disappeared completely. I don't think I'd want to feel like that all the time if that was the effect they had on me (and I was slightly concerned before we got them, as I have reacted in the past - but I think probably more due to hayfever making me super sensitive, rather than an actual allergic reaction).

Your poor sister!

Karmacat

My cat hair allergies turned up because I was really careless about letting my own cats sleep near my pillow   which is pretty gruesome.  I genuinely didn't understand the allergic danger that that posed, so it's my own fault really.  But I'm soft, really soft, when it comes to cats, and I wouldn't change about letting them sleep *somewhere* on my bed, I know it 🤣 so it's best never to tempt fate.

Tax form is submitted!  It terrifies me - when I first started doing it myself, I was winging it, and I think that's why I find it so difficult, even though all of it is quite simple now.  One thing I've noticed: the first £2,000 of dividends is tax free.  And my total dividends are only £277, so I don't pay tax on them anyway any more - I'm sure it used to be deducted, but it isn't now.  So I don't *think* I need to faff about with an S&S ISA.  Which makes life easier for me.  

Duvet cover is drying over a radiator with the window open, the door closed, and the hot-enough heating turned off now.  The only jobs I want to commit to for the afternoon:
- get the bin out for collection tomorrow.
- put the Christmas ornaments away.  For pete's sake, just do it 😛
- remove the last few bits of leftovers from the living room, so I can vacuum, probably tomorrow morning, realistically 🤣

badmemory

I think & I stress think that they are reducing the dividend tax free amount to the same as the interest tax free amount of £1k next year but it still shouldn't affect you, but just thought I'd say.