Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

Cheery_Daff

Graves thing is silly KC, think I had it for about 2 or 3 years before realising :eek: Was stressed and wound up, mr Daffs was rather poorly and stressed, PhD was doing my head in, and I just blamed all that for feeling rotten, rushing round and getting nothing done etc. Thought I was just really unfit huffing and puffing up and down hills all the time. It wasn't til Mr Daffs parcelled me off to the docs after me complaining for the thousandth time that my heart rate had got up to 124bpm after just going up the stairs to bed (only 1 flight and a ladder - and I'm only 30!) that we realised. Instead of telling me to go home and drink less tea (as expected), doc shoved me in a taxi and sent me to A&E for an ECG...

Ah well, we know now, and were hoping it would have gone away after taking the tablets for 6 months, but evidently it's on the way back. Not confirmed yet, but levels of something-or-other (I should probably know what! :rotfl:) have got higher and higher the last twice I've been to the hospital, and I feel rather rotten. Feeling better with beta blockers though (take away the symptoms, not the problem), and going back in 4 weeks.

Fay - don't get onepoll. It's the only thing I ever do any good on! :rotfl: I just log in 4 or 5 times a day and do what's there - usually things there in the middle of the day, but not in the evening if that's any use? Usually a couple at lunch time - I'm getting about 40p a day from there at the min. Global test market and valued opinions I haven't qualified for a single survey on yet!

Anyway, will stop waffling and go and wrap my first ever Ebay sale! :j:j

Cheery_Daff

Morning,

£3.37 from my ebay sale :j (but that includes postage). Very exciting though!

But the bad news is,... poor old van is going to cost about £450-500 to get through MOT, so we're going to replace it Rather sad! I love my little van, it was my first car, and after an initial shakey start (rolled backwards trying to do a hill start after driving it for about 2 months, and crashed into old lady's car, then got points and fine for squeezing through just-turned-red-light cos didn't want to have to do another hill start...), I really loved it.

Of course, it's crap, breaks down far too often, no interior lights, no radio, heating stuck on, side door doesn't open, windows don't lock, ALL doors have some bizarre idiosyncracies (like can't be opened from outside, or without the window open, or at all), bonnet won't open without someone putting all weight on it at the same time as pulling th lever... :rotfl:

Basically what it amounts to is that probably nobody else will drive it! :rotfl: which is ever such a shame, because apart from all that, she drives well and is proper cheery. So I'm a little bit sad...

Anyway, so we're on the lookout for a new one - probably much smaller, less 'interesting' :rotfl:, but that we can still kip in the back of every now and again.

Anyway, that's spectacularly tedious. PhD-ing today (although I seem to have only just got dressed :rotfl:). But meeting an ex-phd friend for a quick cup of tea, so that will get me out of the house for a start, then can get on with library-ing etc.

And clearing out the van cos we'll be going on our last holiday with it tomorrow Must take lots of photos!

(can't believe i"m getting so ludicrously sentimental over a van! 6 years ago I was rampant environmentalist, vowed never to learn to drive, and was exceptionally scathing of anyone who referred to vehicles in terms of endearment! :rotfl: Still pretty much feel the same, but I don't think I ever would have got so attached to an ordinary car that worked, but somehow a rickety old broken down post van with lots of character and annoying idiosyncracies has captured my heart... :rotfl::p)

Karmacat

I can understand that, Cheery! I get attached and give feelings to the most ridiculous things (so ridiculous I'm not going to name them ).

Lots of photos, and then put up onto the thread, please

Pippilongstocking

Hello there

Just a quickie

Cheery do you know the trainline do quidco cashback 1.25% - every little helps if you use them it might add some pennies!

Will catch up properly later - waves hello to all and sends good vibes. xx

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Fay, yes I did know that but I think it's only when it's over £25? My tickets are only £10.85 now Guess I could buy a few in advance... Will investigate. Generally buy from Cross Country Trains now as thetrainline charge £1 booking fee, but cross country don't...

Cheery_Daff

Well, good news this morning! :j Got paid by second job (transcribing work) - was expecting somewhere between £100 and £140, depending on tax and whether the final week had sneaked in there or would have to wait til next month. Checked the bank, and I was paid £162.49! :j:j Kind of forgotten I wasn't paid anything at all from anywhere else for the last 7 weeks or so, so tax/NI probably less than I expected.

I'm chuffed anyway - that more than covers the last of my expenses for this month, and leaves me a tiny bit (about £25) to go towards new van buying...

Took part in someone's research at the university this morning, which involved not having any breakfast, then being shut in a room with 6 bowls of colour co-ordinated M&Ms... :rotfl: You can imagine what happened :rotfl: then had to answer questions about my dieting intentions :rotfl:

Right, must get ready for holidays! Bread's made, scones are made, chilli's cooking, washing's done, van's nearly cleared out, kitchen's tidy, fruit's bought, water's on for Mr Daffs to have a bath - is there anything else to do??

Think I said it should be pretty MSE, free accommodation both nights, don't have to take food for tonight, just for Saturday and Sunday, but we'll mostly eat bread and scones and fruit :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Thanks Fay, yes I did know that but I think it's only when it's over £25? My tickets are only £10.85 now Guess I could buy a few in advance... Will investigate. Generally buy from Cross Country Trains now as thetrainline charge £1 booking fee, but cross country don't...

I got 33p for a 21.50 ticket - I know it doesnt' cover the booking fee - but its something I suppose - was cheaper than just turning up later for me

Well done on the money and the packing all going to plan

I'm still working - although packed - and just got DS - so his washing is whizzing through the washing machine for the off tomorrow - I am a bad friend eh? Using all their things:rotfl:

Have fun on your trip!!

honeybear_2

makeup wrote: »

I belong to a local Fawcett Group which is affiliated with the national Fawcett Society which you may have heard of?? (or not....it isn't that famous). Basically a campaigning group on womens issues.

*hijacks the thread to wave to a fellow member* :wave:

Anyone for tea?

Karmacat

Oh how lovely! Daffs' holibob *and* the Fawcett Society in one go!

Cheery_Daff

Afternoon!

I must shamefully confess to not having heard of the Fawcett Society... But it looks like you do some excellent work - keep it up!

Absolutely gorgeous and lovely weekend here, and I'm all proper calm and chilled out And it wasn't *too* bad MSE wise either. I spent:

£10 diesel
£6 tea and flapjack (but that was over 3 days, and for 2 of us! :rotfl:)
£4 on picnic food (some of which came home with us)
£3 on a rather fabulous swishy red skirt

Er, that's it, so £23 in total - the diesel was budgeted for anyway, so doesn't count, the £4 for picnic came out of the food budget, and the other £9 came from the unnecessary spends budget, so not too bad at all! :j

However... attention is now turned back to van buying... Gosh it's dull (but rather exciting at the same time!). I think selling ours is going to be far more tedious than buying a new one! :rotfl: Currently puzzling over what happens about insurance if you want to go and have a test drive of one that's for sale - we're not insured to drive other cars - should we just ring up and change that now for a couple of weeks while we're buying?? Is that going to be extortionately expensive??

Anyway, should probably be PhD-ing more than worrying about that right now... :rotfl: Going to go and do that out in the shade in the garden though :cool::D

(feel like I've had a proper holiday and everything, and I was only away for a couple of days! Entire house is a complete tip, mind you, but trying to ignore that and be studious for a few hours first otherwise the phd will never get done...)