Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

KajiKita

Thanks @redofromstart, they seem remarkably reluctant to talk to me about values or anything else but they have recently rebranded themselves (tbh I think the fund has changed hands) so maybe there was a hiatus whilst they were in transition. I will try again. Waiting and getting more value later does sound like it would be logical …

@Brie, why would 60 be the age to look at it again? Genuine question. 

I don’t feel like a kitten at nearly 55. I feel old and tired already ….

KK

f0xh0les

You have just reminded me of DS1 climbing into an armoured vehicle at a show and stamping on the accelerator, revving the engine. You have never seen so many Weekend Warriors run toward a turret.  Someone was getting a right rollicking as we walked away.
Apparently they were not supposed to leave the keys in the ignition.   
He answered to Tank Commander for quite a while afterwards.  He was 5. 
Bet you aren't surprised?

KajiKita

@f0xh0les, oh brilliant! 

Mr KK was asked yesterday if he had Public Liability Insurance - yes as part of being a member of the MVT. Did he have a risk assessment. "No", was the answer "but we won't let them touch it!"    

KK

beanielou

That made my heart sing. 

redofromstart

I love that picture KK, and I can entirely understand why Mr KK puts so much effort into his interests.

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

I love that picture KK, and I can entirely understand why Mr KK puts so much effort into his interests.

He works crazy hard at everything. He never stops! I always feel lazy by comparison! I have had to consciously accept and forgive myself for not being able to do as much as him, at the time, on all the things I would like to ...   

KK

Watty1

i had to double take that vehicle as it looked like the village VE picnic of yesterday!  How lovely.

KajiKita

We are both SHATTERED this evening! Neither of us slept well - I don’t think either of us can do late evenings any more! 😂 It was worth it though - we feel like we have contributed and it was nice to do something together and have it to talk about afterwards 😊❤️

I had a gentle morning in work but even so managed to make some solid progress on a few things, particularly fire door repairs by spending 2 hours walking all over the site with a potential contractor reviewing them and agreeing on what needed to be done. 

Popped to M’s to fuel the car (first time in 4 weeks! 😊👏) and a few bits for lunch and dinner this evening. 

Had lunch and then my next hour’s session on mindful eating - a kind of counselling approach. Felt absolutely shattered after it (it’s pretty full on), so after doing all the washing up and cleaning down the kitchen from yesterday (there was no time last night! 😉) I had a brief sit down on a chair in the garden with a magazine for 10 minutes. Mr KK saw me and came and joined me for a bit 😊 We both then pushed on with our respective jobs - him moving lots of subsoil and me cleaning. I got the bathroom done and emptied all the internal bins and the kitchen recycling bin, but then started feeling light headed so had to have a sit down. 

Salad with SM curry tonight included both parsley AND chives from my garden 😊

KK

beanielou

The mindful thing sounds interesting. My eating is out of control at the moment. 

KajiKita

beanielou said:

The mindful thing sounds interesting. My eating is out of control at the moment. 

Mine isn’t great. I keep doing ‘restrictive’ eating in various ways but I can’t sustain it long term and therefore my (over)weight pretty much stays the same. I don’t have the margin I used to have when I could burn off calories easily now I’m getting older. A lot of what the woman I’m seeing said about her experience with food resonated with me and she is someone I know personally so I trust her to respect my confidentiality. 

 A shocking (to me) amount of my stuff around food relates to my early and neglected childhood … But we are trying to give me ‘adult’ responses to the child demanding ‘something nice’ etc … 😉

KK