Caz counts it down

gallygirl

The one thing I would do is make sure both corner cupboards have the bi-fold doors on them and the bottom one gets fitted with one of the carousels that opens the cupboard right up. Which kitchen do you fancy?

Verbatim

gallygirl wrote: »

The one thing I would do is make sure both corner cupboards have the bi-fold doors on them and the bottom one gets fitted with one of the carousels that opens the cupboard right up. Which kitchen do you fancy?

That's a very good idea GG

gallygirl

Verbatim wrote: »

That's a very good idea GG

Yes well, that's the voice of experience speaking having had useless and unusable corner units in several houses!

cazmanian_minx

Whether we get guests in this year completely depends on the availability of my joiner, who is overstretched. Fingers crossed

The corner cupboard at ground level is mainly going to be hiding the heating manifold behind a false back, so there won't actually be much space in it at all. Bifold doors are a must though.

cazmanian_minx

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

On Monday evening I'm catching a flight south to spend Tuesday and Wednesday working in Mr RPC's office. Before I go I have to:

• [STRIKE]Finish 3.5 hours of focus group transcription for the market research company (2.5 hours already done)[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Finish an hour of interview for Journalist #3 (an hour already done)[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]File a load of work emails for Mr RPC and do a hand-over to his client manager who was on holiday last week[/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]Prepare for the meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday[/STRIKE]

• [STRIKE]Draw up a scale layout drawing of the kitchen for the electrician[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Invoice all my clients[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Get my hay turned and baled (weather permitting)[/STRIKE] - weather isn't going to permit!
• [STRIKE]Sweep out the hay byre[/STRIKE] and take the pile of pallets my neighbour said I could have down there to stack the hay on
• [STRIKE]Do all the laundry[/STRIKE], conquer the ironing mountain - hidden in our bedroom!, [STRIKE]make sure I have lots of clean bedding and towels[/STRIKE] because...

I get back late on Wednesday night and on Thursday afternoon Mr Minx's niece and her family are coming to stay until Sunday. So on Thursday I need to:

• [STRIKE]Muck out the annexe for her daughter to sleep in[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Change the sheets on the spare bed[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Set up the sofa bed[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Get through a 45 minute file for NEL by Friday[/STRIKE]

Before Tuesday the following week I need to:

• Cajole Mr Minx into finishing the new fence around the vegetable patch - fence posts are all in, just needs the sheep netting stretching round them
• [STRIKE]Transfer some money into my new business account[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Find out what time the auction starts on Tuesday 9th[/STRIKE]

Tuesday 9th I need to:

• Buy some lambs :D

See you all in about 10 days' time!!

I'm doing pretty well on the list front I've come back from Mr RPC's meeting with about six months' worth of full-time work to get through, so hopefully the invoices will look pretty healthy for a while.

A big relief when I logged onto my Barclaycard account - the balance transfer offer on the big card is back. I'm guessing they saw me spend nearly £4,000 in a short space of time (insulation and flooring for the house plus re-booking the holiday) and wanted to make sure I could pay it back. I cleared the balance to zero yesterday and will make the request for transfer on Monday, because the roofers have nearly finished, which is going to be £5,000, I just had to pay the electrician £1,800, and I now have a fitting date for the windows, which is three weeks away and will be another £4,400.

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Verbatim

Scary spends. Good job you got the BT offer.

cazmanian_minx

Updated my sig. On the plus side, personal debt now paid off has gone into the £24,000 band. On the minus side, thanks to the borrowings for the house, I now have £34,705 on 0% credit cards. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Yesterday I went to the auction mart and swapped £684 for 12 very lovely ewe lambs. They were delivered last night and have spent the last 24 hours mostly asleep, just waking up to eat, drink and explore the field. They particularly like climbing up on the stone dyke walls and jumping off and I think one has sprained an ankle, because she's limping a bit this evening. She ran off down the field handily enough when I went in with my crook to try and catch her and have a look, so I'll leave her in peace overnight and if it's not looking better in the morning, I'll borrow some sheep hurdles from a neighbour and try and pen them up to give her the once-over.

milasavesmoney

Babies!!!!! Lambs are such darlings.
Hope Mr Minx got the veg garden netted.

cazmanian_minx

milasavesmoney wrote: »

Babies!!!!! Lambs are such darlings.
Hope Mr Minx got the veg garden netted.

Not yet, but they're not in that field at the moment! It'll take them a while to work through the top one, so he's got a couple of weeks more before I really start nagging

The roofers have finished, that's another £4,408 out of the bank account and another invoice to come from them for the additional works to the chimneys. Good thing an extra couple of hours of transcription work has just come in for next week!

AlexLK

Just seen you've got a blog.

The croft looks fantastic. Bit of a scary CC debt going on, though. :eek: Have you completely given up the craft business now?

After helping my cousin with lambing this spring and seeing them grow, we're (well son and I, wife likes looking at them but would put no work in) very tempted to get some of our own but don't really have enough land ... unless our neighbour would rent some to us. :eek: I'll just keep reminding myself we cannot really afford to and certainly cannot afford a pony, well not yet. :rotfl: