Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks RT!  I forgot about the Iceland 10% off for over 60s, that could work well with frozen veg.  And I'll check the Boots stuff out.  Ta muchly  

SuperSecretSquirrel

Sorry to read about your neighbour troubles KC. I got quite angry thinking you were being pushed out of your home by some idiot bully, but as I read on it actually felt like you are really happy with the decision to move, almost as if this was just the final push that made up your mind? In that case I'll look on the bright side and look forward to hearing about your nice new home when the time comes 🙂 Also, pleased to read on and see an olive branch had been offered. It seems your remaining time at this house won't be as unpleasant as I first imagined. Best of luck with the house hunting and please keep us updated 😎

Karmacat

Squirrel, that's so nice, thank you!  You're spot on!  Definitely the final push for me to leave: they're very intrusive - overnight tv noise (between 11pm and 7am), weeds, car fumes and garage type work outside my house, a dozen of them gathering at my gate because they fancied it, driving a quadbike up and down the road.  Lots of things.

About this latest thing, at a guess, the parents (my age, more or less) have taken the initiative on the nonverbal apology.  They're still mistreating the dog, which is what brought all this to a head - he's imprisoned in that shed 22 hours a day, something like that - so I have no sympathy for them, but they're not actively persecuting me, that's right, and I doubt they ever would.  But they've both had cancer, and if they were to die, what would the sons be like?  And who knows what else the parents themselves might do?

And I hate, absolutely hate, what I have to do to ignore the dog's suffering, cutting off from an animal like that.  It makes it hard to do anything round the house sometimes, but I only go out for hour long walks most of the time, I'm usually stuck at home.  So for short term *and* long term reasons, it's best I move on.  They're just the right side of legal, I've checked with the RSPCA, so there's nothing I can do.  

This is somewhat blunter than I've been 👀 but what it boils down to is that I can't bear the thought of living here till the end of my days - I'm gutted, I've spent a *lot* of money on this house, and I was really proud of the changes, but that's how it has to be.

Cheery_Daff

Hugs KC, a difficult situation for you. I hope you find somewhere even lovelier, and can apply all the things you've learned in this place to make the new one feel like a safe and beautiful home xx

I'm several days behind... so if I can just hark back to Getting Things Done... I love it 😍 I keep tweaking my system slightly, but it's kept me sane at work for many a year. Less so at home - I've never managed to implement it in quite the same systematic way 🙄

Anyway, sounds like you are getting plenty of things done - well done!

Karmacat

Aw, thank you Cheery!  I've been thinking of moving to a town very near to the local airport, but it is slightly dodgy in quite a few areas - so it's a fair bit cheaper.  But I've also just thought of another town in the opposite direction - good rail and other transport links, easy for my sister, it has to be investigated, but its a great possibility.

Getting Things Done!  A lifesaver I don't use it directly any more, but I think of the approach, for sure.  I've still abandoned it today, slightly, I'm hunting baptism, marriage and cemetery records for the 18th century in Lancashire.  Finding them too, there's so much being put online all the time, its brilliant.  The things I've found over this weekend would've taken a year of trips to County Record Offices back in the day.

Now, however, a spot of lunch and finishing off cleaning the last of the plantpots 😁 possibly with cleaning the wheelie bin for the non-recyclable rubbish - both those things are easy wins in a whole host of ways 🤣 though I still want to go for a walk too.

themadvix

It’s amazing, when you think about it, how long it would have taken analogue-ly, getting 4 fiches at a time or scrolling through hours of film at the record office, compared to a few clicks of a mouse. Family historians these days don’t know they’re born! 🤣 (I started very young - about 14? - so I remember those days well). 

badmemory

You are reminding me of the square eyes & splitting heads of my early working life.  You can see why profs etc had people like me doing the wading through microfiche & large tomes of figures.  Did you ever see one of the old computers?  Floor space bigger than my house & less then a KB of ability.  I'm glad I didn't have their airconditioning bill even back then (60s).  I even did some research into how many indoor bathroom in a local town.  That was an eyeopener from the 61 census.  Whoops official secrets act AGAIN.  That was when I learnt that it is definitely true, there are lies, damn lies & statistics.  You can use stats to prove just about anything even totally opposite viewpoints, just use a different year zero.

I'll get off my hobbyhorse now, but it has taught me a degree of scepticism about when these politicians come on and say since whenever the situation has got worse, my first thought is BS.

Karmacat

themadvix said:

It’s amazing, when you think about it, how long it would have taken analogue-ly, getting 4 fiches at a time or scrolling through hours of film at the record office, compared to a few clicks of a mouse. Family historians these days don’t know they’re born! 🤣 (I started very young - about 14? - so I remember those days well). 

Exactly 🤣  I started at that age too, and I'm a million years older than you are 🤣 so I'm afraid it was even worse then - no microfiches at first!   They took me a while to get used to, all the threading and spooling on and all that - I preferred those ones where you put sheets under a microscope with a light?  Don't even know what they're called 😉  

badmemory said:

You are reminding me of the square eyes & splitting heads of my early working life.  You can see why profs etc had people like me doing the wading through microfiche & large tomes of figures. 
Definitely, my eyes used to ache from a single day, doing it as a job must have been a nightmare.

Did you ever see one of the old computers?  Floor space bigger than my house & less then a KB of ability.  I'm glad I didn't have their airconditioning bill even back then (60s).  I even did some research into how many indoor bathroom in a local town.  That was an eyeopener from the 61 census.  Whoops official secrets act AGAIN.  That was when I learnt that it is definitely true, there are lies, damn lies & statistics.  You can use stats to prove just about anything even totally opposite viewpoints, just use a different year zero.

I'll get off my hobbyhorse now, but it has taught me a degree of scepticism about when these politicians come on and say since whenever the situation has got worse, my first thought is BS.

Well, yes, disinformation and outright lying is more prevalent nowadays than its ever been, and that definitely includes the use and misuse of statistics.  But I'm afraid I *do* think the general national situation is getting worse, for all sorts of reasons, that the advances of the last 30 years or so are being unpicked one by one.  For a non-contentious non-UK one, look at Roe v Wade being rolled back, I suppose. 

First computer I ever had the use of, my boyfriend owned it - you had to programme it every time you switched it on, using a cassette tape 🤣 I swear I'm not kidding!  But it was huge progress!

badmemory

I know you are not kidding, been there done that.  My first home computer was a commodore pet.  What ever the smallest bit is it was only 8 same as the massive 1960s one was that took up a floor of a university building.  You had to use a casstte tape because the whole memory of the computer was not enough to hold more than one short program.  I spent hours & I do mean many many hours typing a program that got my exH his massive promotion & move to near London.  My mother in law (lovely woman) was worried that we had bought the computer against my wishes because we needed a stair carpet (we were on bare boards).  No my choice too.  I never was much of a homemaker type & rarely conformed & I still exasperate my sister, thankfully.

Karmacat

badmemory said:

I know you are not kidding, been there done that.  My first home computer was a commodore pet.  

Yay!  When I got a computer that ran Windows 95, the whole thing was one gigabyte, and I couldn't imagine how I'd ever need more 🤣 it was *so* sophisticated, I thought 🤣  Good grief, I like my laptops 💻