Simple living in the country - back to basics

Ramouth

elantan said:

I have to ask @Ramouth ( cause its bugging me) are you named after a certain dragon but that dragons name has been taken so your one letter different ? 

I am!  The spelling difference is due to my poor spelling rather than someone else having taken the name though if I recall correctly.  I am a rather fast but inaccurate reader so didn’t even notice for a year or so.  

For those who have no idea what we are talking about, check out Anne McCaffery’s dragon series.  An excellent read.

Karmacat

Oh you are!  That's brilliant!  I loved that series -  a bit too real after her son took it over, I stopped then, it was just such comfort food for me when she alone was writing it.  I heard her talk  at a science fiction convention in Glasgow, many years ago now, and she said, if you come to Ireland and you're a fan of mine, get in touch, and come see the house that dragons bought.  She was great.

Ramouth

Karmacat said:

Oh you are!  That's brilliant!  I loved that series -  a bit too real after her son took it over, I stopped then, it was just such comfort food for me when she alone was writing it.  I heard her talk  at a science fiction convention in Glasgow, many years ago now, and she said, if you come to Ireland and you're a fan of mine, get in touch, and come see the house that dragons bought.  She was great.

I didn’t get on well with the TMcC ones either.  They have quite a different feel and are missing the “comfort food” element (which is a great way of putting it).  I’m very jealous that you were able to meet her - I suspect she was quite a character.

Sorry for the hijack Cheery!l

elantan

Ahhh fellow travelers of Pern, how I miss the comfort food, Ramorth was truly a character... sigh I miss those books. 

Sorry cherry for the hijack but it's been niggling me for a while 

badmemory

I was hoping her daughter Gigi would get on board as she has written at least one other book but I haven't seen any as yet.

beanielou

I have no clue what you are talking about 

Cheery_Daff

Neither do I beanie but I do love that everyone is having a nice chat 😀😀 Do carry on! It's like happening on a little gathering in the corner of a party 😀

Didn't get any scything done this evening - ended up clearing a load of stuff ready for our visitor tomorrow 🙄 Butter bean stew thing in the haybox was a success though, very pleased with that 😊

Had a letter from the car insurance people, apparently they overcharged us £9.72 and are sending a refund 😂 No idea why, or why it's taken them since February to notice, but I won't turn my nose up at free dosh 😂

Also had Mr Cheery's credit card - it's just a second card on my account but will allow him to rack up the cashback as well as me, so even if it's just a couple of quid a month, it all adds up. 

17p on the Happy Wheel so still well into negative figures for September but at least today went in the right direction! 

Oh, and I did another mini Tilly Tidy today, can't remember how much but there's over £1 in there now, will check properly tomorrow.

elantan

I just had a wee read of Ramorth's diary .... I will just leave that there 🤣🤣🤣🤣

yay to the refund, you putting it towards your gas bill? 

can I ask what is happy wheel ? 

it's like a wee party going on here:-) 

Cheery_Daff

Certainly is El! I love it 😁

Not sure what I'm doing with the refund yet. Mostly at the minute spare dosh is going to build up the savings pots after they were decimated by the new kitchen 🙄 But this month I was planning on overpaying the mortgage with money from Prolific Academic as I'm sick of feeling like I'm making no progress with that, so maybe it can go in that direction... Will ponder...

Happy Wheel is my stupid term for taking advantage of low risk casino offers (one of which was called the Happy Wheel for a while). I started out doing Matched Betting, which then morphed into this when the Team Casino website appeared. Not for the faint hearted or desperate - it can go down as well as up - but over time it does build. I had £404 from it last month, and an average of about £200 each of the four or five months before that (before that was quite haphazard as I wasn't doing it very often, but overall between Matched Betting and casino offers I've had £6.5k since March 2019)

Karmacat

elantan said:

I just had a wee read of Ramorth's diary .... I will just leave that there 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can't find it, do tell!

can I ask what is happy wheel ? 
My brain has broken, I'm not answering that, even though I do the baby version every day    

it's like a wee party going on here:-) 

It is!  It's a great comparison, thanks Cheery, thanks El!