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Karmacat said:

- PLANT THE SEEDS, FOR HEAVENS SAKE, ITS 21ST MARCH.  NOW IS THE TIME!!!

Every year we say the same. Then every year there's a hard frost in the middle of April that kills the lot 😭 Good luck!

Karmacat

I was determined not to post again on my diary until I'd planted the seeds, and now I have 🤣  Kale, courgettes, chard and land cress.  Chronic fatigue has smacked me in the face a bit, I've had to cancel everything since Monday, huge loss of energy, but I managed to do this today, and I'm very happy about it.

rtandon27

Yeah - well done KC!  It's always a victory when one of those frogs gets eaten.  Hope your fatigue wave passes soon!
My small win for the week was finally getting the laundry mountain under control!

beanielou

Be proud @Karmacat.
CF is such a pain.
In the main people dont get it sadly.

Karmacat

Thanks both not doing too badly at all.  Another thing I did was order a new kettle - my cheapo plastic one died, and I'd sworn to myself that I'd buy a glass one next time, fewer microplastics and so on.  Got one on Asda, and bought a few other things to bring it up to delivery level - sharing chocolates for Easter, though not the nice Green & Black I bought for Xmas, cheapo prosecco, instant porridge for AirBNB holidays in this country, that sort of random selection 🤣  So getting back in action to just clean up the remaining shopping in the porch would be a good thing.

Karmacat

Morning   Okay, this is good, the new kettle works (though its alarming to see just how much boiling goes on before the thing switches off.  Glass, hey 🤣  

Somewhat alarmed by the head of this new Eco group, who's taken it upon himself to start a blog, and published an abbreviated report of our first meeting, and a letter he wrote to the local MP.  On the one hand, good she knows that organisations, or at least the individuals that comprise organisations, are against her, even ones that might be thought to support her.  On the other, I passionately disagree with her and her party, to the extent that my heart is stress-pounding.

Sigh ... okay, I'm going to check on the dampness of the seeds I planted, I'm not quite sure they're damp enough.  This is where I drown them, right? 🙄😥

Karmacat

Bits and bobs, really.  I thought the HW was abandoning me, and this morning I won £6, so I withdrew the original £5 and another £5 for good luck, so I'm already in 100% profit with £8 left in there for s**ts and giggles.  I spent 20p so as not to get gubbed, and won another 16p 🤣

Organising the upstairs of the house, partly because the seedlings are taking over the windowsill.  Yikes.

Eyed up my textiles briefly: I have a long, long length of very thick Chinese type satin, a present to me many years ago, which would be great for the kitchen - much better than the single, too-short curtain I currently have there.  Difficult to sew, so I might be using Wundaweb or the modern equivalent.  Luckily the edges are selvedges, hurray.  I have way too many projects on the go already, but I couldn't resist this one.

Shock horror: I cleaned my recycling bin 🤣  now I have to re-seal the cracks in the top, it got blown over a while ago and I "mended" it, but the tape was too narrow.  I have to do it, because any paper or cardboard I recycle currently ends up in a puddle at the bottom, very Not Good.  The puddle had become toxic, which is why I cleaned the thing.

Tidied up my inbox, as I wasn't able to find things.  Now that I can  I need to answer a few things.  I have the new notebook set up as a proper diary, too, so no excuses.  Got to follow up on contacts I make, thats the whole reason for making them.


ETA - recycling bin completely mended, put the recycling in, and did a bit of weeding while I was out there.  Decided not to do any emails today, I've spent enough time tidying it all up, but I *did* send £2k, mostly French money, to premium bonds, and they've already received it.  

themadvix

The HW does sometimes feel like it's abandoning you, but it does come back! Apart from one bookie, which they've definitely cottoned on that I'm a taker not a gambler, but then when they have guaranteed win days, I still get to win!

The fabric for the curtain sounds lovely (maybe too nice?) for the kitchen.

🤣 to the cleaning the recycling bin shock - definitely not a job I do often if I can avoid it.... so gross!

New kettle sounds good too!

Karmacat

themadvix said:

The HW does sometimes feel like it's abandoning you, but it does come back! Apart from one bookie, which they've definitely cottoned on that I'm a taker not a gambler, but then when they have guaranteed win days, I still get to win!
It really does come back with a bang, doesn't it!  How did the singular bookie cotton on that you're a taker?  I don't press the button to actually play paid games that often, maybe I should do it more often.

The fabric for the curtain sounds lovely (maybe too nice?) for the kitchen.
I really love it - I know what you mean about maybe too nice, but its protected from the sink by the "upstand", which is necessary because the window is so long it goes below the work surface (just a silly structural thing) but what it does is shield from splashes etc.

🤣 to the cleaning the recycling bin shock - definitely not a job I do often if I can avoid it.... so gross!
Terribly 🤣😨 I'm glad I've done it though, and I'll be more protective of it when there are high winds forecast, that's what did for it.

New kettle sounds good too!

The kettle is so great 😁 its hard to see the side gauge, I must say, but its got so many little LEDs its a bit like having Close Encounters of the Third Kind in my kitchen 🤣

themadvix

I'm not sure about the bookie that cottoned on - it was a while ago though and what prompted me to spin with money occasionally. (It's the Great Barrier Reef bookie, if that helps)

My kettle has blue lights - very spooky looking in the dark! 🤣 It was pretty much the only glass one available when I bought it - imagine there's more choice now.