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

Karmacat

Wow, Mizmir, I didn't realise you'd done it last year too, and made so much - from what I hear, people often peak at about a thousand and then lose it when they have to stretch a bit. Well done you for keeping going. I've finally sussed arbs/dutching, I think, I've never really "played around" with the matcher, as recommended, and thats why its taken so long. Holding my breath that I *have* understood, of course.

What do you think has made you more cautious, any ideas at all?

redsquirrel80

Hi KC, hope things are going well. Nice one on the train bookings, I've got to book some for next month so must check out the various sites, usually just go straight through Trainline or National Rail....

Have a good day! x

Karmacat

Hi squirrel! I may well be seeing some red squirrels next month, as a reserve is really close to my mum.... with the train tickets, I use the journey planner at nationalrail.co.uk, then link in to Virgin, where I just log in and buy it. I do play around a little bit with the departure and destination, it seemed to be charging me £7 for a journey I know only costs £3. Martin's advice is always good!

Have a good one yourself ... just reading your sig as I'm typing this.... "what matters most is how well you walk through the fire".... I like that. A lot. This sounds very petty in comparison to that quote, but that sort of thing is why I'm having the building work done, and going on this trip - I do have savings, and tho this takes them down to a scary level (for me) its why they're there. I took a huge risk in going self employed in the first place, and it worked. Manageable risk - uh, walking through the fire sounds much better, but you know what I mean.....

duchy

Virgin was £10 more (hmmm maybe I should add that saved tenner to my £20 a day challenge )
I know the Virgin trains had powerpoints-do the N Exp trains have them too ? Doesn't say either way on their website although on Virgin you can pre-reserve a powerpoint seat.

Karmacat

£10 more? :eek: :eek: :eek: Some serious investigating needed next time.... thanks - if I were you, yes, add it to the £10 a day!

redsquirrel80

Karmacat wrote: »

Hi squirrel! I may well be seeing some red squirrels next month, as a reserve is really close to my mum.... with the train tickets, I use the journey planner at nationalrail.co.uk, then link in to Virgin, where I just log in and buy it. I do play around a little bit with the departure and destination, it seemed to be charging me £7 for a journey I know only costs £3. Martin's advice is always good!

Have a good one yourself ... just reading your sig as I'm typing this.... "what matters most is how well you walk through the fire".... I like that. A lot. This sounds very petty in comparison to that quote, but that sort of thing is why I'm having the building work done, and going on this trip - I do have savings, and tho this takes them down to a scary level (for me) its why they're there. I took a huge risk in going self employed in the first place, and it worked. Manageable risk - uh, walking through the fire sounds much better, but you know what I mean.....

Aww red squirrels are lovely, not seen one for ages, where's the reserve?

My sig is the title of a book of poems by Charles Bukowski, one of my favourite authors anyway, and he led a mad crazy life where he stumbled from one job to another, drank constantly, got in with all sorts of disreputable and dangerous characters.. and while I don't aspire to that, I do admire the way that he just kept on going, kept things together and 'survived' even when he faced tragedy or had no money to live off... all he wanted to do was write, throughout everything he did that and eventually he got the recognition he deserved. That line just makes me think, you can get through it (whatever it is at the time), keep your head up and keep 'walking'.... and yes, it also means being brave enough to take risks to get to where you want to be.

Karmacat

The reserve is in Formby, just north of Liverpool - its isolated from the greys by farmland with not many trees in it, with natural pine forest and sand dunes giving them their natural habitat. And the greys that do intrude are trapped. The reds are very tame, tho they *are* wild - they'll take peanuts out of your hand with a bit of persuasion. We shot ourselves in the foot one time tho - took slices of apple down there as a treat, and when they tasted it they legged it up a tre to eat alone - presumably because it was so tasty!

Bukowski - that name is familiar to me, I'll look him out, thanks. I just found a quote from Calvin Coolidge, of all people, who says the same, but much, much more wordily:
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipresent. The slogan "press on" has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race."

Interesting.

Karmacat

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and good with catsup!!"

Yay! Thanks, Dragon - I pasted it into the body here, to keep it.

Yesterday: aargh, the two mystery shops took up so much time! taking the tests, printing, going there, doing them, inputting data. Still, both were pretty high-paying, I reckon it worked out at £2 an hour, and its always more economic when you can do two at once.

Today: I *will* fund my moneybookers euro account, so I can start doing euro matched betting (that will feed my French current account by this time next year, hopefully, the aim is to:
- stop me suffering from the euro/sterling exchange rate, and
- stop me subsidising the French mortgage from my English earnings.

Needs about 200E a month to do that. That'll take time, but thats okay - I'm starting with 500, all profits from new offers will be kept to grow the kitty for about 9 months, and this is the real reason I've been trying to understand arbs and dutching, for the French account.

Today... maybe 3 hours of work, but lots more preparing for the builders (all I did yesterday was move a couple of pieces of furniture) and I have to do more on the garden. I'm a bit devastated there, actually - my nephew and I did so much digging last year on the shady bit, to create a sitting space, but I didn't finish it off, and having looked at it over the weekend, its really bad again. This week is the perfect week to do it, when I have builders, so can't have clients when they're here, and can't concentrate on the computer cos of the banging.

Right, off to clean the garage so they can store their stuff there.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Karmacat

Um, just as I typed the above, the builders turned up with the window frames! Now safely stored in the garage, so I never bothered clearing or cleaning it (well, I couldn't get in, have you *seen* how big window frames are when they're not in windows??? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Anyway, today.... work-work, plus s*dding about on this computer for a couple of hours, Stargate on in the background and computer games too, plus I did do a qualifier m.b. for 365, the 3rd free bet, at a match of 0.02%, I do like to find them at that level.

Now - oh good grief, I am *not* going to do the washing up. Its gardening or clearing another box. A lot of this is science fiction mementoes - who the h*ell can remember all this stuff anyway? Deffo not :money:

Karmacat

Chasing a m.b. qualifier. Grumbler says a match of 1.55/1.57 isn't particularly good between b365 and bf... Bleep. Bleepity bleep. I'll keep looking for today.