Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Indeed KC (on both counts) although there has been rather too much frittering this month for my liking... :eek:

On that note... budget done for April :j :j

Given myself £100 spends - surely got to be able to manage that

Various pots topped up

£122 car repairs
£185 home maintenance
£25 Christmas :rotfl:
£200 holidays
£202.24 no quibbles
£6282.59 Patchwork Fund :j :j

Currently keeping the last 2 months of patchwork savings in the current account rather than transferring over to the ISA - I'm anticipating we're going to need some of it for house-related things (although we're trying to do most things without touching it) and ISA has a 30 day notice period.

Although, thinking about it, we've got a £1000 emergency fund in the current account anyway, so some of that could go over to ISA before the end of the financial year... Don't think there's going to be anything drastic that requires ludicrous money re the house til we actually start paying for surveys etc, and we're a way off that.

Anyway, we have designated April as Healthy April, or 'Healthpril' for short :rotfl: Complete mouthful, but once we said it, it stuck :rotfl: So eating well, exercising and generally looking after ourselves, which has come unstuck rather a lot lately

Yep, I'll get on the case by Friday. Might stick one more month's worth in there (or perhaps bring it up to a round number?) We'll see.

Healthpril makes me giggle every time I think of it :rotfl:

went to slimming world last night - I paid 12 weeks upfront in January and this was the last of those 12 weeks. Want to know how much I've lost in total in that time??

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go on, have a guess...


... that's right, half a pound :rotfl: :rotfl:

Bloody ridiculous! My own fault, of course, haven't stuck to it at all :rotfl:

However, I'm counting it as a minor success because in the 12 weeks before *that* I actually put on an entire stone :eek: So staying roughly the same is fine, it could have been a lot worse!

Healthpril couldn't have come at a better time

Working at home today, so not anticipating spending anything other than a small donation at the meeting tonight.

Minor panic yesterday at work as someone somewhere hadn't signed a form and there was a chance that the money for my small new project could be lost because it was the funder's year end yesterday :eek: :eek: Fortunately we managed to sort it out and everything is safe :j This is the one that's paying for me to work Friday's til September.

Today will mostly be spent finishing a larger proposal to fund my entire job for the next 18 months or so :eek: Wish me luck!

Doesn't quite feel real if I'm honest - I've never had to do it before! At my grade I'm officially not responsible for bringing in my own research funding, and I've always accepted I'll have to leave at the end of each contract - but never had to as someone else has always just won a big project that I can work on.

This time I'm in a position to apply for funding of my own, and nobody else has a specific project I can work on at the minute, so this is the situation I find myself in. However, my current funding runs out in a couple of weeks so this really should have been sorted out sooner! :eek: (not just my fault!)

Ah well, onwards and upwards.

Most exciting news of the day is my lovely lavender and chamomile candle I have on my desk has just run out, so I get to light the gorgeous stripey pink rose-smelling one instead :j :j

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Tis indeed better than putting on a stone!! :rotfl:

Bit baffled this morning by sheer amount of policemen in town at 7.30am :eek: cordens all through town and to station - no idea what was going on, everyone looking stern.

Turns out the queen is coming :rotfl: Shows how much attention I pay to such things!! :rotfl:

She can pop in if she likes but it's a right old tip and I'm in York so she wouldn't get much of a reception :rotfl: :rotfl:

Healthpril going well - just successfully resisted biscuits and chocolate at work coffee time (one of my major hurdles) :j Second major hurdle is train station... :eek: