Karmacat: I'm passionate about my DFW journey to riches

boredofbeingathome

That's interesting, My grandad ( mum's side) has a family bible and dates back to 1700's where one of his relatives was hung for sheep stealing and the brother of that one is a bishop..go figure huh.He is from Anglesy and moved to the Wirral, my Grandma was from Shropshire, Was the result of an affair in the first world war and was sort of adopted by her sister and when her mum wanted her back was moved around the area..very Catherine Cookson. So she and Grandad married in the thirties.
My dad's side are all Southern Irish, and lots of tales there..one of which that his brother settled in Cornwall, and we met cousins who lived 5 mins from where we had been holidaying all these years..
My hubbys side has dad from South Wales and mum from cumbria, all settled in Durham. So we have a strong Welsh/Irish mix with a bit of Cumbrian (fens in there as well) for good measure.

Karmacat

Wow! I don't have any bishops or rustlers! The poshest we have is a supercargo, from the early 19th century, on my mum's side - thats the guy who went with a ship going out from this country, to sell it in the port - before trade systems were set up. Such a different world. I have a great x 3 grandmother from Anglesey (Jones!) at Ty Croes - her father ran the pub there. We might be distantly related too! She's the only Welsh bit I have that I know of, which is a bit unusual for someone from Liverpool. Mind you, the Irish connection is a bit strong in the pool!

Karmacat

I should be doing stuff off my list - anything, really, except playing computer games. My answerphone *is* ready to put into use, I think, I'm just charging the batteries. I've done the washing up, finally. Eaten a little bit. Unused Christmas cards are sitting on the table. Aargh, I keep trying to play computer games. I don't like my life much at the moment :eek: thats probably why.

The_Dragon

Hugs KarmaCat, I know the feeling well about wanting to just shut the world out by planing computer games!

pandapaws

That's all really fascinating about the family history. My mum used to tell me all sorts of things when I was younger but I was never interested, perhaps I should try and make the time to listen now. Hung for sheep stealing!!!

What took you to your current part of the country KC, if your roots are in the north west?

Karmacat

pandapaws wrote: »

That's all really fascinating about the family history. My mum used to tell me all sorts of things when I was younger but I was never interested, perhaps I should try and make the time to listen now. Hung for sheep stealing!!!

I always worry that talking about your own family bores everyone else rigid, so I try to keep it short. Some of the completists I talk to bore *me* rigid! Glad this was okay. And tales from my mum is how I got started, when I was about 13, all these people doing all these weird things. Of course, I was 13 a while ago, so all those people are long dead, and a slice of oral history is preserved that otherwise would've been gone for ever. Buying blocks of ice to make ice cream and sell it on the street, taking washing in and using a dollypeg, sending your youngest children to an orphanage after your husband dies while you find out how to cope. Life was staggeringly hard.

What took you to your current part of the country KC, if your roots are in the north west?

Well, someone with itchy feet like me was never going to stay in their own home town, and it was Liverpool in the 1970s, remember - there were no jobs. I could have got a job on the graduate trainee scheme where my dad worked actually, but that would have taken me away from Liverpool too. So I ended up in London for years, where slightly crazy people always end up, and moved to my present town for the work, since I'd wanted to leave London for ages - the tube in rush hour is just :eek:

Anyway, today, I'm off to my dentist for a routine checkup, my refusal to have a cold seems to be working, and I must must must get E100 into my French bank account from moneybookers, or else it'll go overdrawn when the mortgage payment comes out, and it sounds like they shoot you or something in France :rolleyes: Back this afternoon :wave:

baby_fuzz

Purpletea65 wrote: »

Morning Karmacat,

With regards to the peppercorns, have you got an asian supermarket near you? They normally got huge bags of black peppercorns for about £1 or 2. We use lots and my mum brought some down for us that she got from the one near her and we are still using it, she came down in May.

Good luck with your list.

Tea
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completely agree! Chinese and Asian Supermarkets are much cheaper for spices.
Take a look at this 106g black peppercorns in Asda:
ASDA Whole black peppercorns 106G
£1.48
£1.40 per 100g
And Chinese Supermarket:
Whole Black Pepper(黑胡椒粒) 100g

£0.75

http://shop.waiyeehong.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2045

Karmacat

Thanks, baby fuzz! I got mine at .... [hops back a page .... ] 400g for £1.68, um, 42p per 100g... which is pretty good, I think.

Welcome to my diary!

Today, I've been .... well, the dentist postponed and rescheduled, I did a matched bet reload (I hope and pray I bust out, but if not, hey ho, the WR is fierce). Took me ages, I'm not used to doing it. Did some Christmas cards, posted them, did some cutting down shrubs and sawing off the odd branch in the garden, thats about all. It isn't really very much, but the biggest thing of all is that I managed to register my French bank account with moneybookers (I think) and withdraw some money to it. Which means I won't go overdrawn there, and my mortgage bank won't shoot me! Good, huh! I'll have to check everything's gone through, tho.

Matched betting and spread betting should see me through there by next March, its already on the go, but it all took me ages - I kept trying to avoid it by playing computer games, I *really* hate dealing with the French stuff. If the spread betting worked to the extent of paying off some of the French mortgage, so it was completely supported by the rent, that would be fantastic. I can dream. I better had, actually!

Karmacat

The euros from moneybookers haven't arrived in my French bank account yet I really hope nothing's gone wrong with the way I inputted the details to moneybookers... If there's still nothing tomorrow, I'll have to send some money from England, and hope it gets there in time to avoid bank problems.

I actually used a bonus on the matched betting yesterday - the qualifier lost at the bookie's last night, so hopefully the one tonight will lose too, and I'll have busted out, yeah yeah yeah ....

Otherwise all is doom and gloom

redsquirrel80

Aww fingers crossed for money arriving in your account in time xx