Big Birthday, railcard, leaking taps and other excitements

The big day arrived yesterday along with a lot of WhatsApp well wishes and a friend popping round.  


My National Rail senior rail card is sitting in my rail card app.  Time will tell whether I save its £80 cost over the next three years or not.  I have a couple of friends who swear by their rail cards though they also both live in cities that have railway stations.  I do not and trips to London at peak times are not discounted.  Still it is the only obvious potential benefit I have found so far for this milestone and in the circumstances I regard it as something of a rite of passage.  The photo is truly awful but the balancing act on the sofa to get a selfie against the most obvious background may not have helped.


We took stuff to the container and put excess cardboard in the greenhouse for later transformation into veg garden mulch.   The van was, therefore, cleared for log transportation about which more will follow.  S mended a leaking tap and started touching up paint work in the kitchen (I’m a messy cook!).  I paid my Barclaycard bill, December’s car parking charges for work and transferred the eBay proceeds of a sale of a pair of the MiL’s shoes to her.  Never let it be said we do not know how to celebrate in style round here!  The Barclaycard bill was truly eye watering but then the ski holiday is booked, they never come cheap and are a non negotiable in this household, so a deep breath and general acceptance is required. 




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