Daffy's 'patchwork dreams' diary

Cheery_Daff

Madness indeed VL! Especially since I forgot that the clocks changing meant I would lose an hour of daylight :eek: :eek: Consequently fence is still 8 foot tall all the way round and I now can't see to cut it (and my secateurs are cr*p). Have tied it to the stakes as best I can to stop it blowing over tonight (fortunately it's not windy) and as I'm now in York for 3 days, Mr daffs is going to cut the top off tomorrow Good really - it's an absolutely vile job and I'm not at all sorry to be missing it! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Bath's running :T :T :T :T Then I'm off out to the pub to watch the last man in space or on earth or in space or something

Cheery_Daff

Phew! That was a long day! :rotfl: Walked into town bringing the day's total on foot to about 8.5 miles :eek: Paid £5 to watch Mr Daffs sing for half an hour :eek: - hope he appreciates it

They were showing The Last Man on Earth after that, with a band playing an improvised soundtrack. Another day I might have stayed to watch, but it was a tiny room, there were only 10 people in the audience, so I couldn't really have left half way through, and I was sat on a hard chair and was starting to seize up :rotfl: :rotfl: So I left Mr Daffs down there and came back and now have hot water bottle, hot chocolate - and the alarm set for 5.40 so I can get to work in time for a 4 hour training course starting at 9am :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Can't say I didn't have a busy weekend! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Karmacat

I pretty much agree you had a busy weekend :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I'd certainly have bottled out on the film myself!

Hope you're not too stiff today, especially with an early-start training course coming up!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks KC. Didn't do too badly today - training course was actually really interesting, social media for researchers, learned about lots of things! :T :T

Blithering worn out though, just about to hop in the bath again :j :j :j

Cheery_Daff

<yawn>

Didn't get home from work til half past midnight last night :eek: :eek: (we ran an event and then got taken out for tea )

Consequently work not really started yet... but that's ok.

Must start thinking about internet banking again soon!

Cheery_Daff

Right then, been shuffling about with the internet banking...

Patchwork living fund now up to £2634 :j :j :j :j Hooray, although some work still required if it's going to get to £10,000 by the end of next year! :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: I've started putting £500 a month in there instead of £400, so we'll see... (I did work out how much that would make it, but hte book I wrote it in is upstairs. It may have worked out, I can't remember )

Overall total looking pretty healthy too :T :T Not entirely sure I'll make my completely arbitrary target :rotfl: :rotfl: but not done a bad job at all I don't think :T :T

Another 2 paydays to go this year (blimey, is that all?!), so by the end of the year should have:

* patchwork fund £2634 + £500 + £500 = £3634
*overall savings 5458 + £670 + £670 = £6798 = 83.41% - not toooooo far off Only £1352 short, and since it's unlikely I'm going to find that down the back of the sofa in the next two months, I might just have to live with it

(mind you, I'm probably not going to be going to work for a month, so that'll save about £120-£180 on train fares! :money: :rotfl:)

£634 left in the bank now, and I'm pretty sure I was meant to have £200 of the emergency fund in there as a float.... That needs to cover:

£150 food (£30 a week x 5 weeks)
£150 fun
£180 train fares (£12 a day x 3 days a week - spare goes to flute lessons etc)
£15 union fees
£15 phone bill

What's that? (count on fingers) £510 - so it looks like I may have spent about £70 of last month's float... (although actually I've got cash in my purse and this weeks train fares are already bought, so it pretty much works out. I think.)

Bleurgh, can't be bothered thinking about it any more, going to go to bed instead...

Karmacat

I like that CBA .... especially when it comes at the end of such a detailed post

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: I know - I'd just reached my limit of what I could be bothered thinking about at that time of night!

Sun's shining today and I'm working at home so might pop out for a little walk later :T :T

Pippilongstocking

Hope you enjoy the walk, well done on all that hard work and saving!!!!



Peeing it down here in a sideways manner.

Cheery_Daff

Gone all cloudy and grey now in sympathy

Got to pot up cheery little plants later - think they're missing their sea view and not too impressed with a view of the other side of my road! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: