Building The Burrow!

Kittenkirst

Hope the new job is going well :beer:

Pearla*Merle

Petal88 wrote: »

My wedding is end of July next year so I'd love to follow the progress on yours - I'm afraid mine is the complete opposite of an MSE wedding (turns out OH is quite a sucker for a big white wedding with all the frills + London costs are a killer) but maybe you'll find some out of the box solutions that I can latch onto for mine too!

I'll be sure to let you know if I come across anything wonderful.

We'd initially thought autumn next year, but now it's suddenly April (which is going to disappear in a blink of an eye, I can just tell), I'm starting to wonder if that's too soon (mostly because I want to get myself fit and healthy again before it). Though I think we're just going to go for Big Party and do away with the traditional trimmings.

I can see how things spiral, just thinking about it for five minutes seems to promote some sort of need for a budget increase. :eek: Our friends and family are so far away though, so I've no idea where we'd hold it/how many people would actually come. Going abroad is starting to sound a lot more appealing.

Pearla*Merle

chumpy45 wrote: »

:hello: Hi Pearla*Merle have had a very happy few days following your diary - what a lot of adventures you have Many, many congratulations on the new dream job - sounds very well deserved. Thank you also for the decluttering inspiration which has resulted in me be able to open my wardrobe without the occurrence of a daily avalance :rotfl: Well one half of my wardrobe anyway but am getting there. Enjoy your new job celebrations :T

Hello chumpy! Lovely to have you aboard and thank you.

And well done on the decluttering - I shall take some inspiration from you and try and tackle Mr M's wardrobes later today, they don't shut properly again. :eek:

Pearla*Merle

Thank you MCI & Kittenkirst!

New job going very, very well. Though they've managed straight off the bat to land a huge once-a-year style project on my desk with only a few weeks to accomplish a million things at once which is great. At least it should showcase what I can do, so maybe it's no bad things.

Hopefully things should calm down and get on a more even keel once May rolls around. But really loving it all - lovely (and pretty sensible, which is a novelty!) people, lots of fun things to do and feel like I'm making good headway with it all.

Already had my first little pay packet. Am going to end up working a few more hours (only an extra 2-4 a week), but that means an extra bit of cash which will be lovely. :T

greent

Glad to hear that it's going so well


xx

Pearla*Merle

ETA: thank you, greent

It's rather wonderful to back on MFW!

The last few weeks have been utterly nonstop - having a very chilled out day today filled with homey/key 'healthy body/mind' activities to get me back into the swing of things...

Baked bread, sorted out the balcony and potted up a range of bulbs (overdue, oops) and repotted my herbs. Watched The Durrells this morning (charming, and has made me want to run away to the coast and be an artist - handily we're off somewhere coastal in a couple of weeks to do just that sort of thing! :T), ballet (1984) on now while I do some odds and ends and then must catch up with the last episode of The Night Manager.

I also have some books to finish (netflix fire will be on full blast during this) and I'm going to get back into my yoga and get DuoLingo (learning German) on the go again. Might even crack open the record player. Lovely day. :T

Decluttered - two more bags ready to go to the charity shop. Mostly magazines, but a few kitchen utensils and a cardigan in there too.

:www: MFW Wonderment: lots to report! Most of which I'll forget, I daresay, but...

£10 Better Points Amazon voucher; 20-odd pence into the Kitty Bank; £1.10 TCB; found a £10 note on the pavement!

New reward credit card applied for & on the go - collecting air miles as Mr M & I are not far off a long haul flight from our points! :dance: Will probably use for a honeymoon-type thing.

Picked up a couple of dresses for work (each were £100 down to £23/£32! Cha-ching!). Should be sorted for work outfits for a good while now.

Lots of freebies lately! Perfume samples, popcorn, loads of chocolate from 02 or promo handouts in various places, random soap samples and I forget what else.

Visited The Ideal Home Show with an MSE chum - free tix! and free goody bags (including lots of munchies, yum), also took a packed lunch to save the pennies. And saw Martin himself strut his stuff :money:

:coffee: Simple Pleasures: surveying my nice new balcony garden; warm sunshine; bread baking in the... breadmaker; getting stuff done (and not adding more things to the list!)

:heartsmil Burrow Building: Had a day listening to LPs yesterday and putting up pictures (it's only taken 18 months!); have also been playing lots of board games and some more future plotting.

A lovely, smallish, house near us went up for sale... 'ooh' we thought, then 'OH.' we thought. £800k! :eek: To be fair it had two more bedrooms than I expected in there but blinking heck! Guess I'd better keep saving.

apple_muncher

You just need to find a few more of those tenners...!

My dream is to find a random roll of bank notes, and it will obviously be enough to pay off the mortgage and live happily ever after...

Pearla*Merle

I could live with that too... :think:

Pearla*Merle

Epic tidying up today and the whole place looks the better for it. :T

Decluttered: jumper, biscuit tin, make up bag, another tin, loads of paper.

:www: MFW Wonderment: spending diary & budgets uptodate. MFiT updated (nothing to report due to job stuff - hopefully will get the saving back on track in the next month or two).

Painted (Scandi-style) the wooden handle of a whisk we have which was looking a little forlorn. Feels like a brand new whisk for free. :rotfl:

I was planning on buying a mint plant, but have just discovered I already have some seeds. :T Shall get those potted up in a mo.

Looked into Council Tax - they charged me for 11 months last year, surely that's wrong? Going to have to phone them to find out.

New CC sorted out & on the go - they do lots of cashback deals, looking forward to it.

:coffee: Simple Pleasures: sunny mornings; being able to walk from room to room without tripping up on things; homemade bread & butter.

:heartsmil Burrow Building: another chilled out evening listening to music/reading. I feel like I get so much more done when I'm not sucked into the TV all night. :cool:

jodles16

Hey P*M! Have made my way through your diary and am amazed at how much decluttering you have managed to do as well as the lovely sounding places you have lived and of course how MSE you are! Massive congrats on the engagement and new job, fantastic news!!

Jodles :beer::j