Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Pippilongstocking

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I only told u off a tiny bit.................

love that geranium too

Ebay done
Need do more
Man mailing mulch again tomorrow
blog done
Bank peeked at, eek indeed

Time to nap x

LT - don't worry I'm terrible at remembering anything.x

Pippilongstocking

Evening all off to catch up post about money and grump

Just a normal day eh? Xx

Lemon_Tree

tis your diary so feel free to grump, i grump on mine all the time. hope all is well with you and the family

Cheery_Daff

Ah Pippi, hope there's not too much to grump about xxxxx

How lovely that the geranium is flowering. What a beautiful legacy xxx

Pippilongstocking

ok
money first

last month earned 293 from ebay/etc which is not bad I guess

this month 4.93 - hmmm I need to get a wriggle on eh?

I've seedlings crowding out window ledges so I need to get that bit sorted took some photos tonight and will begin to list a few more things (cucumbers, tomatoes, chillis, courgettes, leeks, sweetcorn, to name but a few) all triffid like!

Two things posted to ebay today (included in that pitiful total up there!)

Chased my plastic for that job and he's resending (78 quid on that and delivery), also paid out £150 on willow cuttings which are in fridge - also got 12 quid of plastic mulch here to let me get started on that job (the tree planting bit bought 13m plastic to cut up) to help keep the woman happy - she phoned again today - very understanding about things getting home here but even still its a while since I priced the job. Tree guards not here yet (need 60 @84p each) - but 'borrowed' some from the local tree project and when the real ones arrive I'll just replace them with the tree lady - that bit at least worked after a bit of thinking.

Not straightforward eh? I'm out over £250 and can't begin the job yet.
I've cut the new bought plastic to tree sizes tonight (65 - 60cm squares with a tiny slit in them to plant the tree through) that took about an hour
Organised tree stakes - free from work should cost 50p each new - might be able to charge for them
Got stakes/tools/guards/plastic etc in car if the day is good tomorrow at least I can make a start.

I figure sooner I get going, sooner I recoup the outlay and of course get paid. It would be nice to have that money this month.
They did offer a deposit but I'd rather be paid after I've done the job. Although money is tight.

Got a bit writing done today which is progress -must keep on with that.

vl2588

Deposit is fair enough if you have expenses though!

Pippilongstocking

Money is the grumpy bit

One cc has £12 left on it (insert shreeky face)
One has 300 left on it

Banks
£38 left of OD on one account (shreekymckpeeky)
£74.87 left of OD of the other account (double shreekypeeky face)

A bit youchy really need get the ebay thing sorted to tick that money in - I'm so lazy.

WTFC - in on friday - which is enough to cover DD's out on saturday

Ds owes me £130 for a monitor (which I paid on CC) - but his bank card is frozen (expired) - he's going in tomorrow to sort that out. I hope!
Need pay £60 for moving tunnel to mover folk - might leave that a couple days yet.

Kind of ticking over - but its on a knife edge at the moment. Extra out on job is crippling me, but all the travelling south which I really needed to do is catching up with me a bit.

Lemon_Tree

oh heck sorry to hear things haven't been arriving as they should have been and it's really messing up your finances. That's just the pits! Hopefully you'll get lots of things sold on ebay pretty quickly, people get in the mood for gardening when it comes to easter and that is oh so closee now.

Pippilongstocking

Wave to all!!!

I could have taken a deposit - but I'm trying to work up a reputation and trying to have a 'float' for outlays. If the plastic had turned up on time I would have finished the job by now!

Good point though VL well made

Hello to you all - I'm sorry about the moaning - been a while since this tight.

Jugglesome but hoping OK. We wont starve eh - my freezers are still bulging!

Petrol is a killer though - 145.7/ltr

vl2588

Grr to pesky unreliable deliveries!