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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Hiya!  Thanks for the info on the Great Barrier Reef 😁 now I've got the 2nd one on the go properly, I must look at a third, it's so easy, so predictable - not huge amounts, but for the "work", I wouldn't expect there to be 🤣

    How interesting that you plumped for a glass kettle too!  That's reassuring, particularly as I didn't research, and was going on gut instinct.  Reinforcement is good 😄

    Ahem, I'm still only at the stage of faffing about - I ate badly-for-me yesterday - a portion of ordinary sage & onion stuffing, and when I cooked a microwave cake, half of the fat was coconut fat.  Neither particularly agree with me, but together they were **terrible**, gave me a headache overnight, and no sleep, so I only woke up at 10am  :o thank heavens I'm bleeping retired.  I've been pootling about online while watching Antiques Road Trip nonsense, I'm afraid, so I've done easy stuff like clicks, and also used my banking app to send rewards money to my current account, check on the balances, and get a head start on checking Net Worth for April, last done in December, so quarterly is good.  Net Worth is going well, in spite of catching up on a few "wanted" things at Amazon.

    Only issue so far: my Regular Saver at the bank is only £50 a month, I could afford more, it can take up to £150 a month, but I can't figure out a way (on the app, anyway) to uplift the figure.  And it earns 6% p.a., which is a goodly amount.

    Now though, I'm off on a walk, I haven't even peaked out of the window!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • themadvix
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    Take a waterproof Karma!

    Glad you worked out the Great Barrier Reef - it was particularly obscure! .🤣

    Good news on your net worth, especially with the markets how they are at the moment.
    Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days

    'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway


  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,197 Forumite
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    Good news indeed! 

    Your new kettle sounds ace 😁 and your curtain fabric sounds rather like what I used for the new blinds in the bedroom - very heavy satin type stuff. Lovely 😊
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 8,785 Forumite
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    Zoom talks sound good.

    Also quite surprised at Paul O'Grady's death, even though I thought he was about 10 years older! It's the way to go though - peacefully and quickly.

    Hope sister feels better soon!
    Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days

    'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway


  • Karmacat
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    All true, madvix, all true.  And sister *does* feel better, but is still infectious with whatever it is - tested neg for covid.

    No time to do the whole sewing machine thing - gah, U3A emails, such a web of issues.  I'm sure I overthink this stuff.  So it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut used to say.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat
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    Right, I've had a tidying splurge 😀 sweeping/ moving furniture back into place/ fetching out of date beetroot from the stash/ tiny bit of decluttering.

    There's a glass dish type thing that I chose as part of my stash when we split up my mum's house.  I found out later that it was a favourite of my step-grandmother, who was a poisonous old woman: 20 years after the fact, she was laughing with my mum about how much fun it was to upset me when I went into their sitting room to wish them goodnight.  I was going to use it by smashing it and putting the pieces in the garden, but now, I think I'll just send it to a charity shop and let it take its chances.  Much less faff and botheration that way.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • badmemory
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    I think the charity shop is a great idea for it.  She'd probably turn in grave thinking someone would get some benefit from it.
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    That's true 😎 she was never one for other people's happiness.

    Right, I'm going to continue to work towards setting up the sewing machine.  Step by step :) 
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
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