Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

MatyMoo

In 8 weeks Rodders has kept us up for 5 nights, 4 of them when OH has been here. As I get very grumpy without sleep he has chosen to get up with him and leave me to sleep

vl2588

Glad to hear you've not blown away Pippi, was a bit worried when I heard about the weather. 130mph indeed! 83 is beyond my comprehension as it is!

Keiss_21

Humfph. just lost my longish rambling post :mad:

So, thanks for all your kind thoughts, will try and take things easy. Need to get driving tomorrow as invigilating Thursday and Friday this week, and the college is 8 miles away. Don't suppose that constitutes taking things easy, does it....:o:o

Need to get to bed, see you all tomorrow.

DH is out observing tonight, first clear night he's had for ages!!! No doubt he will come home freezing and want a cuddle:eek: It's usually me with the frozen feet, so it will make a change!! ;)

Night, night all

Oh sorry, almost forgot...HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mrs Moo!! :bdaycake:

vl2588

Very frustrating that!

Happy Birthday Mrs Moo

Pippilongstocking

Keiss look after you, sorry if I sound like a broken record, invigilating good for the purse though! Vl hey up hope you are good, how's life?

Maty I'm sure puppy will settle, poor you!

Lt wearing a hat here, removals, I phoned a few local companies and compared notes, email them if you can't phone and give a rough idea of size/boxes furniture (estimate it) and then i bartered between them. Id also price up a van ( you can drive unto a Luton on a licence) and think of area chums who might be bribed and compare.


Morning all, all schools closed here, well most of them.

Off to check banks etc, slept in as no bus run woke at 9am
We've done it both ways -

Karmacat

LT, I moved house last year, in the south of England, between towns about 20 miles apart - the contents of a 3 bed semi with garage. It cost about £650 - I got 3 quotes, and that was the cheapest from the most professional sounding - there was one guy cheaper, a bit, but he sounded off.

Pippi, you had to go without lunch? Whats the usual situation like that?

Keiss - does your OH have a fave area/topic to observe, planets and whatnot, or any kind of clear patch of sky ? I think it'll be next year now before I join a local Astronomy Society...

Pippilongstocking

Great advice up there KC -

I know going witout lunch - I hadn't really considered such folk even existed.

Now today - I've done hte banks - ok i've still about £100 to find for the rent but I got my plane expenses yesterday (£160 paid on cc) and I can put that straight into the bank and pay the cc part of it at the end of the month (if not before) and I get quidco yay
HC to do I think - trying to plan a bit
Admin for womble job to do a bit today - freezing here will def need a womble suit for it- 2-3 hours
Walk out there in the freezing cold
CC - one ok, locked out of the other online......whoops need phone them
a bit of tidying -
Need find ds driver licence paper bit think in the file
Need to phone a few venues in a local town about a host place and think of a format for an event in January
Bank to go too - and post office to put an amazon sale away
HM dinner and a few bits to freeze
Invoice for a garden I've started in only 4 hours but thats fine to start her off and not scare her!
Hens fed and eggs to collect in a bit
Expense form to mail to other chap today
plants to propagate (piggy back plant) if I get the time
Need check ebay and get more coir little jiffy pot thingmys
Out tonight at polytunnel course - lift share - my turn to drive
FB brother and say happy birthday
Email about slow food stuff with a local lady - this is hard work - the subby is alot so far NO members and I need to chase up an email too
Write an invoice for my brother for welding work up here and email that in
Reply to a guy about a portacabin perhaps in the future....................
Do a bit of baking and maybe write another less whiny blog
Email a lady from blog land who I'm a pen pal with now its quite nice!
Phone a chap back and arrange to meet up about gardening classes he missed and give him the notes talk them through with him

Ok a bit of adminy things and a bit of home things - nice combination of stuff I think. Pottery kind of a work day - I think I like working part time, I can fit life things in too. I'm not a very efficient 'full time' employee - I think I'm better with part time - I feel as if I can do that well, rather than charging around trying to fit life into a f/t job too but I know I'm lucky I don't mind being poor and prefer this.

Kittikins

Wow Pippi, that's a busy day!!

KC - would you mind sharing the details of your removal company with me, because, drum roll please.....I've had an offer on my dream house accepted this morning It's blooming expensive and only one road away from where I live now, but there's no way DD and I can do the moving by ourselves, lol

Just got to hope the mortgage and everything else will happen as smoothly as the whole selling my house and finding a new place has been so far

Pippilongstocking

OH wow KK - you and LT moving now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray!

MatyMoo

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Maty I'm sure puppy will settle, poor you!

I really am not complaining, I think he has been brilliant & we usually know what disturbs him in the night

Good luck to Kittikins & LT with moving, it can be so stressful but so worth it!

Pippi - You are a whirlwind, I get tired just reading your lists :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: