Travelling On

Karmacat · 25 September 2018 at 9:58AM

I've been trying for half an hour to make Southern Railway let me buy a rail ticket ... they really don't want to play! I used them as recently as July ... SouthEastern use the same customer-facing page, but they've graciously decided to accept my payment, same ticket, same times, everything. Online life is very crazy, sometimes.

So, today:
- email Margate friend
- back up computer.
Those are left over from yesterday.

Then:
- more gardening.
- bit of cleaning and tidying.
- send money to France, tax bill *and* maintenance bill are now due, rent isn't nearly enough. As I've said (endlessly) this should be the last time I need to do it.

I also need to sort out *how* to pay the tax bill - apparently the type of bank account you need to use to do that is changing. Sigh ... typical background sh1te that never stops. Ah well.

AND
Today is the 25th. My very last mortgage payment on the French house is being taken today - its less than a third of the usual, because thats all the capital outstanding thats left.
**faints with happiness** I wonder if I seriously need to give thought to finding a tax shelter - money will never build up, and tax is based on income, but the interest on the mortgage was claimable, and there's no interest any more. One more thing to research. Never mind, get the latest wodge of English money over to France, thats the next step. One thing at a time.

greent · 25 September 2018 at 12:58PM

:j :j :j yeay! to final French mortgage payment!!! :T :T :T
xx

rtandon27 · 25 September 2018 at 4:21PM

Hooray - now you are truly mortgage free on all fronts!:j:j:j:j:j

beanielou · 25 September 2018 at 4:38PM

Great news on the French mortgage :j :j

Karmacat · 25 September 2018 at 6:43PM

Thank you all! That's very kind

I confess, I didn't send the money off for the near-term bills, but I *did* work really hard in the garden - digging and bagging for an hour, then more tidying up - I need to pop out again quickly to pot up a huge bundle of garlic bulbs and individual cloves, they were left in the ground and overrun by my awful weeds. Free the cloves!

pinkypig · 25 September 2018 at 9:05PM

Well done Karma -I must get my garden sorted out

Xx

Karmacat · 25 September 2018 at 9:36PM

It definitely feels good to do it, PP, it really does. I did pot up the garlic, it's all very close together, maybe I can repot it at the end of this year's planting season? More research needed, I think. Little steps - things are gradually getting straighter.

Karmacat · 26 September 2018 at 3:01PM

Just had a bit of a community moment here ... my house is right on the rec. ground, over the road, and an Air Ambulance just landed! Of course, everyone came out to see

Other end of the square, so I don't know what was going on. But what struck me was how much space the helicopter needed to take off again. Only three feet off the ground, the copter turned 360 degrees, and then gained height (very slowly!) backwards. Towards the trees that are right outside my house. It honestly looked like everything was going to come to grief - I confess, I backed away.

Money has been sent to France - not a great exchange rate, but not the Armageddon the papers are making out.

Done SB too.
More washing on the line - getting quite dry

Another hour's digging and cutting.

Admin email.

I might even do some scanning (yay!) and cleaning (boo!).

[Deleted User] · 26 September 2018 at 3:12PM

Karmacat wrote: »

Just had a bit of a community moment here ... my house is right on the rec. ground, over the road, and an Air Ambulance just landed! Of course, everyone came out to see Other end of the square, so I don't know what was going on. But what struck me was how much space the helicopter needed to take off again. Only three feet off the ground, the copter turned 360 degrees, and then gained height (very slowly!) backwards. Towards the trees that are right outside my house. It honestly looked like everything was going to come to grief - I confess, I backed away.

That sounds like a scary experience:eek:. I think I'd have backed away too. I hope whoever the casualty is makes a good recovery.

We are on the regular flight path for a lot of RAF planes and they often come roaring over quite low when they are presumably on training exercises. Very low, noisy and fast, they used to really spook our cat:eek:. They don't do much for my nerves either:o. The day of the big RAF event in London a few weeks ago we had several small groups of planes coming over en route for London. It must have been a mammoth undertaking for the organizers to get it all in synch as planes from airfields in various parts of the country, including Scotland were all en route that day. We got to see planes at close quarters that we normally didn't. OH and I were trying to recognise the one's that had flown over our garden when we watched the fly past on TV later.

Karmacat · 26 September 2018 at 3:50PM

Thanks CBC

I'd have liked to see the ones preparing for the flypast :j:j:j

I saw a Hurricane and a Spitfire recently when they were circling for the Southport Air Show, that was fun :A but this helicopter was really something else!

Nothing else left to pretend to do - I have to go do more work in the garden!

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