Travelling On

Karmacat

Thank you all so much!  I really appreciate people chipping in, it feels like such a big deal to move (and part of me wishes I hadn't bought this humongous sofa that still isn't set up ) but it will be worth it if I move to the right place.  Yes, it's crystallised my decision - and yes, these are the noisy neighbours with the dog and the overnight tv hung on the party wall.  Without them, this would be an average, pleasant enough place to live, with good neighbours - computer guy, radio ham guy, country park ranger guy, retired carpenter guy.  The problem family have their own troubles, of course, some of which they've caused but some of which they haven't, but I'm done.  

I'm going to research buying a Ring doorbell, and that's basically the last thing I'll write about them on here, unless it goes even more catastrophically wrong - dwelling on it really gets me down, and I've made the decision anyway, so I'm not going to struggle with it or with them.

Might struggle with the optician though  they cancelled my appointment at short notice, but because of all the ways they contacted me, including a text asking me to confirm the appointment (sent *after* the cancellation!) I didn't get the message.  That'll teach me.  I'm kind of in the wrong, for not checking the voicemail, but to be honest in the middle of all this, I just assumed it was repeating the text that I'd already replied to.  I shan't make an assumption like that again!

Karmacat

Lovely, lovely afternoon yesterday, a friend I hadn't seen for so long managed to get over this way, and we sat on the Common and watched the sky.  It was only when the local school started pouring onto the Common we realised what time it was.  

So today, I've finally washed the main cover of the big sofa - I'm hoping it will dry before my sister gets here tomorrow so she can help me put it on (again  ).  I need to get the kitchen table ready so we can spread out the photos from our mum that we still need to sort out and re-distribute, including to brother for his kids.  I have a courgette that managed to grow!  That needs repotting.  And I have lots of flowerpots that need cleaning.  I think that will be my limit today, its a bank holibob after all.  And I'll still need a bit of a walk to stretch the legs and warm up my kneejoint.

themadvix

Sounds like you had a great day yesterday! And congratulations on the courgette - mine haven't come up yet, but I think you planted yours a little while before me and I've had mine in the greenhouse, not the house, which has probably been a bit chilly still.

A Ring doorbell sounds like a good insurance policy. Such a pity, given that all the other neighbours are so nice!

earthgirl2

So sorry to hear that you have such an idiot next door, ring doorbell sounds like a good idea. 

Karmacat

Morning!  Big day yesterday sorting out the photos, and it went well.  A little scanning mistake I made about 20 years ago has come back to bite me  I'd scanned a set of photos from the 1940s, and then I heard about compressing images - but it didn't mention the images becoming smaller as a result, which they did, in those days anyway.  Plus I was changing them from the tiff format to jpeg.  Anyway, the photos are now the size of an ordinary postage stamp  luckily its only a couple of dozen, but I'm annoyed I haven't done it before now when they were all together.  Live and learn!  And the day was lovely, I saw Tiny Human on a video call.

Today, gentle work, its still a bank holiday after all, and it all needs doing so that the house-moving work can get done.
- backing up computer now that the holiday photos are all in the right place.
- dishwasher and washing machine.
- follow up on Saturday's garden work and get a bit more in the green bin for tomorrow.

Karmacat

Right, getting my act together - I only got about 4 hours sleep last night, so I expect to crash later on.

Wow factor: someone in the frightening family next door popped onto my front yard (I gave general permission for this years ago) to cut down their leylandii, and disentangle their ivy from our boundary-marking drainpipe and grid, it must have been on Sunday when I was at my sister's but I only saw it Monday afternoon.  I'm genuinely thrilled, it's such a lot of work done, and shows they're pulling back from crazy.  It might even be an unspoken apology.  I'm just going to accept it and be thankful.

Today:
- the latest chunk of French money should have gone to premium bonds, check that.
- at the same time, send sister my share of our expenses on the holiday: £20    including petrol.
- ug, the French accountant needs some work done in terms of new declarations to the French tax authorities.  Everything is in order, its just new;  email I just got has an English translation attached, so it might be really easy.
- start cleaning for the house sale.  The bathroom is too long-term grubby, I'd be embarrassed to put it up like this.
- bit of work in the garden.  It sounds silly, but getting a domestic knife to push brambles back through the fencing they're trying to take over.  It's from the problematic neighbour, of course, but as well as doing my side of their leylandii at the front, they also strimmed their back garden, clearing away the solid nettles and brambles.  So these brambles coming through to my side are dying, woo.  It will take less time to do it than to write about it like that 😁
- chat with sister.

Karmacat

- the latest chunk of French money should have gone to premium bonds, check that. Nope! Why not? No clue. I scheduled it over the weekend for today.

- at the same time, send sister my share of our expenses on the holiday: £20    including petrol. Done, except I had to go back and send another £2, I got the amount wrong 🙄

- ug, the French accountant needs some work done in terms of new declarations to the French tax authorities.  Everything is in order, its just new;  email I just got has an English translation attached, so it might be really easy. Oh boy. I went round and round: the problem I have is that when I pay French tax, I've always bypassed a tax account, I've just paid the dosh. This is coming back to bite me, I'll send an email to the accountant after I make one more try, then we'll see.

- chat with sister. Hurray, done.

rtandon27

Hooray for the silent apology! Also well done on finishing off all things financial. You mentioned 'Getting things done' a while back - is this the D. Allen system? - I've heard snippets of it, but not actually read the book.

We've been tidying the garden today - weed, mow, prune & harvest - Looks so much better out there - now just need to get around to putting the plant plug flowers into the pots, while topping up with fresh compost - this might be tomorrow as I've a bunch of boring paperwork to do.

Have plugged into some classical focus music and downed a cup of decent cafetiere coffee - 1/2 pound bag of the ground stuff courtesy of a lovely Olioer!

beanielou

Silent apology sounds good.

Karmacat

Hiya! I used the GTD phrase without thinking, but that's probably because I devoured that book cover to cover, I found it so useful!

You sound like you've done really well in the garden - I've done half an hour or so out there, poking the new brambles back through the fence, digging up a bit of couch grass that's drowning the heather (which is flowering, lovely to see) a little bit of tidying, but really not much. What are you harvesting, RT? I like the sound of that!

Fresh, strong coffee … mmmmmmm ☕

I just managed to do a little bit of the tile cleaning in the bathroom 🙄 some of the grout will have to be renewed, I think, and it will all have to be bit by bit - you have to get into really awkward positions, I can't kneel in the bath to do it, my knees will get submerged by the runoff from the cleaned mouldy bits 🙄 Really yuck!

I've been looking at Rightmove 😁 and a premium bond win of about £100k would go down really well just now 🤣

Oh, PS - my French accountant has come back to me already with a form I need to fill in to correct the omission of not having an actual account. Bless her cotton socks :)