Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lovely PB win there, well done! 😃

We have a wait flower in town too. We often nip in for milk as there isn't anywhere else in that part of town that you can grab milk and some pears etc. Try not to do it that often mind you. Although that's where I got the bizarre heavily reduced thrush medication, so occasionally useful for an unexpected bargain 😂😂

Karmacat

Thanks!  I was very pleasantly surprised by the PB win, I must say.

I used to use a backpack for groceries, when I lived in the city by the sea, my shoulders were healthier and it just felt good.

But yes, WR used to be a long way south - in fact, the border I remember is between the Midlands and the North.  I had quite a bit of family, including my parents, who settled in the extremely rich little town where lots of Liverpool footballers lived, just south of Southport, and everyone was wildly excited - in one year, they got a WR and an M&SFood.  There were queues out the doors 🌈🌈🌈

Baileys_Babe

beanielou said:

So wish I had a waitflower near me.

Same here ☹️

Karmacat

Well, the quince doesn't work - my quince is a bush, not the tree, and they're all practically hollow, with a few seeds and lots of white stuff like on oranges and tangerines.  Definitely not the sub-variety where you can simmer it then put in a stick blender and hey presto.  I'd rather put herbs or something there.  Bye bye quince 😥

Karmacat

Lovely day out yesterday - we went down to the coast again, thought it would be sunny, but was still pretty stormy - some great waves out there, and lots of hard-earned steps with the wind that was whistling through.  We also had the excitement of seeing emergency responders, including the RNLI at work, only for it to have been a false alarm, a paddleboarder had looked to have been in difficulty, so someone on the shore had called it in, with the best intentions.  It all took place in the final destination we were walking towards, but we didn't want to go there while a potential tragedy was taking place.  So all's well that ends well, paddleboarder was safe, RNLI returned to harbour, responders stopped running, and we got to be eye-level with the top of the spray 🌊

Today:
- a driving lesson, parallel parking, as I mentioned it to him last week after being on here 😅
- collecting birthday jigsaws for toddler from Waitrose.  Plus yet more tinned butterbeans 😁
- massive clean up is needed, of me and everything else, but spaceflight is tomorrow, so I need to be careful.  DW was on yesterday evening, WM is on right now, hopefully I'll peg it out before the lesson.  Got to get on with things!

Karmacat

Spaceflight group was absolutely lovely, after the meeting we had a cuppa, and I happened to sit with the wife of our head honcho, we had a lovely old chat as well.  I sat in her car - she has a Toyota Yaris, ta-da 😊 and it's very roomy inside, great stuff.  Sister can take me for a pre-arranged test drive, but not till a week on Friday, ie 17th Nov, so I'm going to be studying it on YT till then.  And possibly getting a 0% BT credit card, that would be handy, I had a go on Martin's calculator, there was a Virgin one for 12 months with a fee of 1.5%.  It would save immediate cashing in of some premium bonds - and they *might* win me the million, after all 😁  Even £10k borrowed would only be £150 at that rate - and in a year's premium bond membership, that £10k is likely to net me more than that.  Or maybe at least that.  It's a gamble - not particularly high stakes, but I'd like to have a go.

The other ongoing issue is this secure destruction-of-documents thing.  I've been going through a dusty jute bag that's been perched on the bed in my 2nd bedroom for a million years.  The perching, I mean, not the going-through.  I thought it was full of secure documents that need destruction, and it really isn't 😮  there are some, but there's also ordinary recycling, and plastic bags that can be thrown, and all sorts of things, including a big tub of vaseline 🙄 - I think I'd hoped to put it all in the compost bin, but now, in the moment, it isn't going to happen, and it can just go in the ordinary recycling.  Plastic in the rubbish bin, obvs.  Horrendous 🤣 what if I'd popped my clogs and somebody else had to deal with that 🤣  

I thought today was going to be cleaning the shopping to put it away, since the whole day has been a rainstorm and the council-run walk is a no-no, but its all about the rubbish and the recycling right now.  Such an exotic life.

themadvix

It sounds like you've had a good day Karma - productive and fun.

Bear in mind that you may not get as high a limit as you'd like from a cc - but anything will help of course!

badmemory

What I would like to know is where I got some of the STUFF I have from.  My latest clear out found a pad that was big, only the one & I have absolutely no idea where it has come from.  The thing is I just seem to keep finding things like that.  The good news is I have just promised next door the lego (out of the loft).  Now all I have to do is find it.

Karmacat

themadvix said:

It sounds like you've had a good day Karma - productive and fun.

Bear in mind that you may not get as high a limit as you'd like from a cc - but anything will help of course!

Yep, it was pretty good, thanks and there was this too, its CGI:
Boeing Space Freighter Fully Reusable 420 Ton Payload Rocket Spaceplane - YouTube

badmemory said:

What I would like to know is where I got some of the STUFF I have from.  My latest clear out found a pad that was big, only the one & I have absolutely no idea where it has come from.  The thing is I just seem to keep finding things like that.  The good news is I have just promised next door the lego (out of the loft).  Now all I have to do is find it.

Oh that's so true!  When did I get that?  Why have I still got it?  Absolutely horrendous!  I mean, there's some point to keeping lego, but honestly, a lot of stuff left the house today, and more will leave at the end of tomorrow, once I've emptied the rainwater out of the recycling bin (the lid got broken when a storm blew it over, and I've used tape on it, but its tricky).  There's a lot!  

So, tomorrow is cleaning of shopping, and tonight the DW will be doing its thing.


ETA - and DWP contacted me - I get £500 this year for the fuel payment.  I didn't like to tell them that Sc Power put my monthly debit down by £40 🙄 it's going to help with the car 😮

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like you'll put it to good use! 

Speaking of cars... I meant to ask if you'd been looking at the Parkers website. They have decent, comprehensive reviews, including things like fuel economy, what's annoying, and other cars that might do similar things. 

Here's the one for the most recent Toyota Yaris: 

https://www.parkers.co.uk/toyota/yaris/review/

You can go back to earlier models too. We always use these whenever we're buying a car (which we haven't done for a while which is why I forgot about it 😂)

Anyway, ignore if it's not useful of course!