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  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    Thanks both. Still in pain but glad i know why.

    I am going to turn aga off in the summer if the weather is at all summery. Sausage casserole a success.
    Sadly had to open a bottle of red homebrew to add to it so someone will have to drink that before it explodes...
  • So glad to hear the oil has arrived :T and that the sausage casserole was a success :T shame a wine had to be opened and then finished though eh? ;):D

    Fab bargain on the joules jeans too :T and hope the new boots are muh better than the last ones - you're right it doesn't count as you'd already spent the money and it is a *need* :)

    Hope you are feeling alot better soon too - the water butt is a definite investment x
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  • Habibiboo
    Habibiboo Posts: 1,582 Forumite
    Alchemilla wrote: »
    Thanks Lois. Sausage casserole is cooking on the baby belling. Oil has been delivered. Aga is warming up. The only problem is central heating not coming on but already feels warmer. Doc says i have amongst other things, tennis elbow from lifting tubtrugs of water. Sprung for another one, some coolmix and a water butt, seventy quid. Bargain joules jeans new with tags and postage for DD1 for three quid and rigger boots and warmsocks for the same as my refunded boots so not sure that counts?

    It has hailed and snowed here.

    :wave:

    Crikey, what a day of highs and lows (starting point being last night's three jumpers :eek:)!

    Glad you have warmth again & hope central heating has stopped sulking and decided to join in the party.

    Oh, and I wouldn't count it if it doesn't stay in one hand before it's out again with the other!
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  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    edited 12 February 2014 at 8:30AM
    Thanks chaps. I really need to stop picking uplovely bargains on ebay. As Dave Ramsey would say i am "nickel-and-diming myself to death".

    Gave DH £32 of s and m vouchers to get treats for our weekend away.

    Wondering if i need to sling arm to remind me not to use it, seems a bit attention seeking though. Spent a tenner on a support thingy. Super cute Jewish trainee doc told me to go to "tenniselbow support.com". I hope he doesnt lose his mojo when the grind of working in medicine kicks in.

    Eta missing duvet cover has reappeared...it was....drum roll...still on the duvet under the other duvet cover.
  • Alchemilla
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    edited 12 February 2014 at 9:24PM
    Need to commit to a list. Also need to go back to bed.
    * ring boiler guy done
    * make a list for weekend.
    * think about mould thought about it!
    * wash stuff
    * clean up bb oven.

  • I hope when you read this, you're in bed :)

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  • Glad the oil has arrived!!!

    Did you manage to go back to bed?

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  • Alchemilla
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    I did and then managed to sleep til two. Horrors!

    Boiler not sorted but i am hopeful.

    While i was sleeping most of the garden fence has come down in the gale.
  • LauraJo
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    Oh you are just not having a good time are you?!
    Being cold is miserable. Being cold and not being able to get warm after horses is the worst. Being cold, not being able to get warm and then being injured is just the pitts :(
    Roll on spring and light and warmth!!
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  • Alchemilla
    Alchemilla Posts: 6,276 Forumite
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    Roll on spring indeed.
    Well managed to bleed the boiler under instruction from boiler guy, bless him and with the donation of an allen key -not sure of spelling- from my Dad.
    Call out fee avoided and house is a balmy fifteen degrees.
    Also makes today a NSD.
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