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

Karmacat

Morning! Got my list of ordinary things worked out in my diary (yesterday!) and my dfw stuff I need to do is:
- 2.5 hours paid work.
- claim a bonus from an online thing.
- check out matched bets for the VC freebie.
- redeem lightspeed and ipoints vouchers, do some surveys if I have time.
- do a bit of digging on my little "square foot gardening" patch.

I was doing some gardening at the front yesterday, pulling up ivy and snipping shrubs - I've done a lot over the last few months, and though it still doesn't look wonderful, when you look at it you can see loads and loads of bulbs that suddenly have light, and they're blooming. Very nice.

pandapaws

We've been hacking away at the jungle that was our front garden quite a bit over the past couple of weeks, and it is amazingly rewarding!

I like the idea of 'square foot gardening' - sounds intriguing! What's the basic plan behind that?

Karmacat

Hiya! I came across it in this thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1307035&highlight=square+foot+gardening

The thread died at the end of last year, but I'm sure somebody will rescusitate it, or if not that something similar. Its about a raised bed where you plan each square foot, quite literally - its used for food growing, naturally. I think its a great idea, you could literally have one square foot in a big pot, and it would still be square foot gardening. I've dug over nearly the whole plot - 3 foot by 3 foot - tho I did that before the snow, I'm sure I'll have to do it again.

This morning was odd - I had a 1.5 hour session scheduled, and the person rang to cancel and ended up having a phone session. Which is something I do regularly, but not off the cuff. Still, it was okay, means I can rest my eyes and still listen!

Karmacat

Been out in my back garden this afternoon, digging away - awkward really, rescuing worms and replanting grape hyacinth bulbs took a loooooonnnnnggg time. As Panda says, tho, its rewarding. And thats the first dig complete - got to tidy up the edges now. There's an old washing line pole that will do for the long edge, I'll put used masonry on top of that, or maybe find some stuff down in the garage, which is *horrendous*. Anything could be in there!

Plus I've done all the washing up, done some surveys, tidied up the second bedroom so much you can see the bed!

Karmacat

Bother, just lost my post with doing an accidental hit on a button somewhere. Gist is, 2 hours paid work today, no gardening cos of arthritis, decluttering in the kitchen, checking out my free bet on VC. Thats it. Maybe do those totesport vouchers that arrived with the freebie paper, or at least work out how to do them.

Hope everyone has a good day.

redsquirrel80

Hi Karma, nice to hear you're getting some gardening done - don't do yourself any damage in the process! Hyacinths make me sneeze.. I dunno why I've told you that... :rotfl:

Have a good day x

Karmacat

Hi Squizz (nearly wrote squeeze) .... the gardening has been great, I feel like I'm really making progress on it - I've been posting on the Greenfingered Board about protecting worms - seems a bit difficult

Hyacinths make you sneeze, hey - well, I was drivelling on about hyacinths don't stick your nose in a bouquet of them, will you!

Karmacat

Good grief! I just found out my quidco account was credited with £25.01 today by the football pools - I'm astonished! I already made a profit of £14.60 back in November, and they closed my account, but they're still paying me the cashback???? Well ... all I can say is, thank you very much!

redsquirrel80

Well that's very nice of them! I discovered the hyacinth thing when we were given some bulbs to grow at school one year, half hyacinths and half daffodils and we had to bring them in to show them off in the hall when they'd grown.. sneezed me little head off :rotfl:

I have loads of worms in my garden, do you want some?

Karmacat

:rotfl: It *is* nice of them, innit!

As for the worms - yes please! :rotfl: There's *lots* of stuff in my garden for them to eat!

Poor little squizzer of years past, sneezing away! Awwww ... that does sound like the big suckers tho - the ones you put in pots and you can look at their roots. These are tiny little things, smaller than a bluebell - the "grape" bit is, um, trying to think of something small enough. Can't see anything - smaller than the body of a smiley, anyway. Small!