Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

Watty1

I also love the flowers.

Am a summer person,  mainly because I am always very cold and sadly felt I missed much of the summer so am working out how to embrace this season now (which will involve more layers!)

KajiKita

Thanks @skint_spice, @beanielou, @Watty1 😊 💐 
Yes, the drop in the light brings a lot of people down @Merlin's_Beard and I think our immune systems decline with it too 🤷‍♀️
I’m now seeing you swooshing about in stylish hats and elegantly draped shawls @Watty1 😊

Woke feeling bunged up and very tired this morning. Weather has been wet (lightly this morning, heavily since lunchtime) all day … 

I have however managed to:
- prep for the PC eating tomorrow. It’s gonna be a looong one … sigh … The only good thing is that Chair has an audition afterwards so we have to be done by 8.30pm at the latest 😉

- tried to make sense of the income and expenditure sheet prepared by the clerk versus the PC bank account and I can’t. Not sure if it’s a timing thing (transactions in process) or me not understanding (but I run my budget and I did do a small dose of double entry bookkeeping eons ago when I did a HNC in Bus studies and finance … 🤷‍♀️🤔) or whether the clerk is fundamentally incapable of explaining the financial transactions we have? Even the numbers she shared for the bank reconciliation don’t add up! 🙄😳 …. Double sigh … Detailed feedback sent to Clerk and suggestions on how to make it all clearer (which she will ignore as usual), cc’ing Chair, which led to an email chain back and forth between myself and Chair on how to tackle this …

- Done our financial updates - I had no issues there 😉. Started the Christmas present tracker for this year as I am starting to store away things for people 😊 Had a look at the data for actual OPs this year versus what I forecast - I’m significantly down on surveys and cashback and the Wayleave payment got used for topping up the house EF instead of an OP, but I am making up the gap with the extra monthly OP I have set up. I am starting to think about next year’s forecast for OPs …

- Finished drying and folding all the washing so the conservatory is completely clear from Mr KK coming back from the sale.

- Extracted all the unwanted vegan cookbooks from the bookcase in the living room along with various other things, which made space for my new vegetarian cookbooks to go on the bookcase and off the floor 😊👏 I have 27 books ready to possibly sell - would be lovely if I could get a half decent amount back for them … 🤞

- Braved the rain just now to empty the veg peeling bucket, open the gates for Mr KK and move some of the cleared magazines to the recycling bin. Came back in with properly wet legs … 🙄😂

Time for a brew ☕️ 😊

KK

Brewerspride

KajiKita said:

I have however managed to:
- prep for the PC eating tomorrow. It’s gonna be a looong one … sigh … The only good thing is that Chair has an audition afterwards so we have to be done by 8.30pm at the latest 😉


KK

@KajiKita I know you no longer like being on the PC, but planning to munch them is a bit harsh I fear 

PS Love the pic of the cut flowers.

KajiKita

Brewerspride said:

KajiKita said:

I have however managed to:
- prep for the PC eating tomorrow. It’s gonna be a looong one … sigh … The only good thing is that Chair has an audition afterwards so we have to be done by 8.30pm at the latest 😉


KK

@KajiKita I know you no longer like being on the PC, but planning to munch them is a bit harsh I fear 

PS Love the pic of the cut flowers.

Hahaha … very good! Freudian slip methinks! 😂😂😂😉

KK

Humdinger1

Yes, a novel yet satisfying solution to more problems than you'd think: ladies and gentlemen, I give you cannibalism!

KajiKita

Humdinger1 said:

Yes, a novel yet satisfying solution to more problems than you'd think: ladies and gentlemen, I give you cannibalism!

Mr KK really appreciates that one!! 😂😂😂👏

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Ugh that sounds exhausting in every way, well done. Hope it does well. Maybe ask annoying member of the public man if he wants to join before you retire? 😇

Hope you can get a decent price for the books. The second hand selling marketplace is not great for giving the price things deserve, but if you're in no rush and do good listings then 🤞
If you get annoyed with it all, then scan them on WoB, they don't pay much but they don't require listings and dealing with lost packages or unhinged people!

greenbee

KajiKita said:

Humdinger1 said:

Yes, a novel yet satisfying solution to more problems than you'd think: ladies and gentlemen, I give you cannibalism!

Mr KK really appreciates that one!! 😂😂😂👏

KK

Sounds like a copy of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” is in order…

KajiKita

greenbee said:

KajiKita said:

Humdinger1 said:

Yes, a novel yet satisfying solution to more problems than you'd think: ladies and gentlemen, I give you cannibalism!

Mr KK really appreciates that one!! 😂😂😂👏

KK

Sounds like a copy of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” is in order…

Nice idea

I didn't post last night as I didn't get home until 9pm from the PC meeting and still needed a shower before crashing into ZZZZs ...

It was still grim, boring, turgid, dreary, low-level-drama-ing ... And, as ever at this time of year, I got chilled ...

The one bright spot was how the Chair 'reiterated' the rules for public input as she opened the meeting (5 minutes, at the start of the meeting, in the open Forum part of the agenda, at the Chair's discretion, no debate, no responses from the PC, comments will be minuted - we've never had to state them before in my time on the PC, so we've had to write some up!) - the regular member of the public who turned up bang on time, made his points, we listened and the moved on. He then put his hand up (absolutely straight up, like a 4 year old) as we were discussing something later on and we carried on around him. It actually really helped as it didn't interrupt the flow of our discussion as his interventions have in the past, but I suspect we will pay for it in some way at the next meeting in December ...

I have a risk register to write, have managed to delegate the horrible unpicking of the finances to the other PC who's on the finance sub-committee who is able to meet the Clerk during the day time and have told the Chair that I will email everyone on 1st January to tell them that my resignation is complete, so I don't keep getting emails and the Chair doesn't have to deal with the 'drama' of me not being present at the next meeting in February ...

Getting so VERY tired of this ...

KK 

beanielou

One more meeting to go 🥳