Butti's Journey: A matter of loaf and death

MatyMoo

Good for you Butti and what a great Manager :T

If she thinks you should have picked the phone up why didn't she take her own advice and phone you in the first place rather than blasting off an email to all & sundry

Butti

MatyMoo wrote: »

Good for you Butti and what a great Manager :T

If she thinks you should have picked the phone up why didn't she take her own advice and phone you in the first place rather than blasting off an email to all & sundry

Well exactly Maty.

Butti

Well I've been clothes shopping today in my local town. It was like this :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: I had to ask the price again. 2p. Shocking eh? The price of buttons these days!

This week though will be interesting. Think I am still 'just about' managing to manage things.

Insurance has been checked and is about £230 and with a view to my pay rise next month will go on to the bank account as a direct debit.

Front drivers side tyre has been replaced. Car is booked in for MOT on Tuesday. This is the interesting bit. Car is booked in for MOT on Tuesday and booked in for replacement of car windscreen on Thursday - the wrong way round. BUT provided I have a booking for the windscreen the car will not fail for that.

Going to go home in a fortnights, rather than a weeks time. This will save money, save wear and tear on the car and has enabled me to spend the money that would have been spent on going home on a new front tyre to allow it to pass its MOT.

Was listening to Graham Norton this morning talking about someone who was a hoarder as I dug through the paper detritis in my bedroom. Have to say it is nice seeing more floor.



So this weekend;

• Checking the freezer and doing food plans
• Gardening - planting on tomatoes and putting out salad veg. Planting new salad veg seeds.
• Performing mouth to mouth on a chilli plant...suspect it has gone here :A
• Planting out the pepper plant I have bought. £3 with peppers already on it and peppers are 80p each in the shops.
• Getting further quotes for car insurance.

Have just seen my car - literally - in a garage in town. 40k miles less on the clock £1600. May be worth throwing it in the pot as an option next month at my annual review. May also be worth looking at jobs just for a bit of ammunition (sounding like my dad?!!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek:)

Don't think I'll have any problem persuading my bosses I need help with a new / newer car but HR in our place is like GOD....or maybe like George Osborne. Too much power and make decisions to 'save money' even if they make no logical sense!

Right lets go and share intimate details with complete strangers!

B x

Butti

Butti wrote: »

Front drivers side tyre has been replaced. Car is booked in for MOT on Tuesday. This is the interesting bit. Car is booked in for MOT on Tuesday and booked in for replacement of car windscreen on Thursday - the wrong way round. BUT provided I have a booking for the windscreen the car will not fail for that.

So as I expected the above advice was a complete crock!!!

BUT did take it to the County Council's MOT centre. The bloke had a look at the chip and confirmed it would fail for that. We rebooked the MOT for after the windscreen fitting on Thursday.

Had a conversation with someone else at work who talked about a car accessory place on the corner and what they can do. Went in to see him for a pre-MOT check. He checked it and reckons it will pass. That cost me £20.

So the windscreen gets fitted on Thursday evening for £70 and will go in for MOT on Friday via the man on the corner, not the County Council. I think that will be about £40. A new offside drivers tyre and wiper have cost me £55.

I am also going to take it to the place on the corner in September and they will wire brush the underside and coat it to protect it against the winter. That will be about £80.

All in all this has made me slightly more optimistic

Will still be making the case for a company car

Think I can limp on for another few months.

Better go chaps and chappesses x

beanielou

Good news Butti trhat you think you can limp on a wee while longer

Butti

Is it wrong * that when I see the sign on a stall Wild Beaver pie I instantly have visions on myself between two sheets of pastry? :rotfl:

B

* possibly a rhetorical question

p.s. MOT pass

beanielou

Good news on MOT pass.
On other comment I will make no comment :rotfl:

Butti

Housemate has eased the pressure in the ginger beer. He also moved it away from the soft furnishings as he reckoned it was going to explode!

skint_spice

It'll be going in the fridge soon though won't it, hope you let him drink some:D

Butti

DEAR MSE...
Please don't do that again...you don't seem to realise how many of us are addicted to you! love Butti xxx

Hello peeps...how are you all? Recovering from the withdrawel of our beloved MSE forum I hope. Didn't realise till this weekend how much little posts just keep me on the straight and narrow. Just a wee list with a load of kind people behind me to bash me over the head if I start talking [STRIKE]cr*p[/STRIKE] more cr*p than usual.

So this month is the end of financially the toughest year of my life - I think (although I may be looking at my student years through rose tinted spectacles!) and I am nearly through it. Hope I'm not tempting fate!

Have just been in to the bank to check balances. I have £610 available and £390 coming out before 15th August. I need a couple of weeks of managing things very tightly as am in London on 13th - 18th August. How helpful is that - going for a trip away two days before payday!!! Did get the bank to refund charges again just today...they must be almost as sick of this as me!

Got my car through its MOT this month. New windscreen (they did take payment out, didn't get away with that much!), new tyre and a check over prior to test. All in all cost about £200 so that wasn't too bad.

Next month I have my annual review for my job. The governing body think I'm doing brilliantly, my bosses think I'm doing better than them, even I think I'm doing pretty well. Am going to ask for a company car I think (have to check the sums!) Have to do 6000 miles a year to qualify for a company car. Unofficially people have said they are no longer doing company cars, officially it's still in the car policy provided you do 6000 miles. I currently do my job covering an area from Lincolnshire to Warwick to Derbyshire with a 1 ltr Toyota Yaris on an X reg with 118k on the clock.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Frankly it's a bit of an effin miracle that the wee car is still performing. I will have done about 5860 miles by the end of this month, my first year in the job. I hardly did any miles in the first two months (too busy reading the health and safety manual :rotfl:) or in June (when I took lots of time off to paint my garage!) I wonder if they'll see sense, I wonder sometimes if HR ever see sense.

In other news we've been making moonshine :beer::beer::beer: Really has been working quite well, although it did give me a bit of a head this morning.

skint_spice wrote: »

It'll be going in the fridge soon though won't it, hope you let him drink some:D

I offered some to my fellow housemate Skinty. He said he will be making some soon. I think we were both a bit disturbed by the stress fractures round the neck of the bottle. Really it needs someone babysitting it. Probably wouldn't go down too well if I put it under the desk at work - there's probably a no alcohol at work policy although whether they specify brewing it I'm not sure!

Went into town today to buy a fabric for a summer skirt. Didn't see anything I liked. However did see a nice wrapover skirt - brick red with white leaves in a charity shop - £2.50. That's me all set for summer now - boiling in the office so I need light stuff to wear.

Very little else to report. Slugs seem to be parachuting on to my strawberries thus avoiding the slug pellets - seriously intelligent slugs I have. Lettuce going well and the £3 green pepper plant I bought is going brilliantly.

Did do something very daft (apart from not looking at the forum section on selling houses before putting mine up for sale. Lesson : Always check the forums before doing anything financial

But apart from that, I booked a ticket to go and see Lenny Henry in 'Fences' when I am down in London, £26 and frankly money I don't have....was just p*ssed off that I didn't see him in Othello and then I wasn't going to see him in this, when I was already down in London and not doing anything that night. Anyway suggested that to my brother for my birthday pressie and he is giving me £20 towards it.

So things not looking too bad. Going to put some stuff up on Gumtree and the local selling site and Tesco noticeboard next week to see if it can help a bit with London cos I know it is expensive and it's streets aren't paved with gold.
Really...they're not!

Hope you're all coping in the heat.

B x