Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

Oh! And my access to the Ovo website seems to have been sorted out finally :j :j

Hadn't had a bill since October (but monthly DD still going out) so just had a combined gas/electric one for £391 :eek: Mind you, DD is £99 a month so that covered most of it, and we had quite a large balance, so even after all that we're still £309 in credit, so nowt to worry about :j

Fixed deal ends 30th Jan - need to investigate whether to fix again or not.

Not going to do that now though - suposed to be leaving in 5 minutes and I'm not dressed and still have presents to wrap!! :eek: And it looks like the car windscreen is all icy, hope the roads aren't! :eek:

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

...my access to the Ovo website seems to have been sorted out finally...

Yeah to getting access!:j:j

Does that mean you can now monitor your smart meter?

Have a fun family day! - hopefully you have sunshine too?

Karmacat

Another one hoping you had lots of lovely sunshine, Cheery - and that you managed to get dressed before you left the house

Pippilongstocking

Often a problem I have as I tucked my pj top into my trousers at a swanky edinbrugh cafe yesterday I'd got halfway dressed and then threw a jumper on top of my pj top to do the hens then left for a lunch meet, whoops.

:-)

Cheery_Daff

Whoops Pippi :rotfl: I can just imagine :rotfl: :rotfl:

I did indeed have a lovely day with my family, thank you ladies! :j Very jolly

And then a couple of days prancing to work and back on my new foldy bike :j :j

Popping in to confess I have just rejoined slimming world... Apparently I have indeed put on an entire stone since the end of October :eek:

Still, we're not going to think about the £50 I just spent (bought 12 weeks in advance ) and instead think about the £1-2 I won't be spending on chocolatey nonsense every single day :eek:

Need to do a bit of YNAB shuffling (still working well for me :j ). Should have a couple of bits coming in from Mr Cheery's side of things soon so might bung them straight to the Patchwork Fund :j

Cheery_Daff

Oh, and ludicrous cake/sweets habit is costing me a fortune - not only have I had to rejoin slimming world but part of my filling fell out lst week and now the other side of my face aches too :eek: Dentist tomorrow

One day I'll learn... (maybe...)

Cheery_Daff

Yawn yawnity yawn yawn

Things are feeling VERY hemmed in at our house at the minute. Next door neighbours (relatively new, a few youngish lads by the sounds of it) are FAR noisier than we've ever had :eek: Can handle band practice in the living room, can handle general hanging round in the day noise - but tempers are becoming VERY frayed with the 'coming in after 2am with a bunch of mates and running up and down the stairs and banging doors and shouting and talking in loud voices in bedrooms' noises :mad:

Mr Daffs can't deal with it at all and is like a caged bear this morning.

And the people in the other house right outside the back door are having the roof done so there's scaffolding literally 2 foot outside our door that you have to practically clamber round to get out, and they've got the !!!!in radio on ALL THE TIME which you can hear from everywhere in the house.

So I didn't go to sleep til about midnight with toothache etc, woke at 4.15 with Mr Daffs raging at next door, was still awake at 6 listening to them !!!!ing about, then roofers arrived at 8 :eek:

Roofers will be gone eventually I suppose but looks like I'm going to have to pop round and have a quiet word with the neighbours...

Cheery_Daff

On a more cheerful note...

Today I have:

* rung 3 insurers for a quote for insurance for the allotment community group (haven't actually managed to *obtain* an actual quote yet, but at least I've tried!!)
* logged back in to the slimming world website
* cleaned the kitchen and living room
* cancelled gym membership
* cancelled sister's gift subscription to magazine (already cancelled through bank but now cancelled through magazine too)

Er, that's it :rotfl:

About to put Stripey Socks of Bravery on (pink and black stripey sparkley) and go next door to inform young fellas that the walls are quite thin and they might want to be a little quieter when they roll in at 4am :eek:

And then I'll go straight to the dentist :eek:

What an afternoon of joy!! :rotfl:

Karmacat

Ouchie, yes, you're not having the most wonderful time in the world! Totally comprehend noisy neighbours ... on the other side of my party wall is a couple my age, 3 kids locally who've left home, you'd think I'd be safe. Their 3 dogs (Alsatians!) are really well behaved, they bark for 30 seconds when they see someone they know or when they go out into the garden for a runaround, but the bloke is a lorry driver, comes back at 1am regularly, and there's a grandchild (who's been very ill, poor mite) the crying doesn't bother me, but the singing and whooping from the parents does, as does the banging of drawers and plugs. 2am last night ...

Not complaining until things get worse tho. I've heard a rumour about having to disclose things like that, when you come to sell? Don't know if its true, but I need to do research first.

Good luck at the dentist!

Cheery_Daff

Dentist was fine compared to everything else going on today! :rotfl:

As far as I know you have to declare if there's been some kind of official complaint about noisy neighbours -but I can't see any reason you'd need to complain about popping round to have a word? For us next door is a rented house so they change quite regularly anyway, this is a pretty new lot, only been there a few weeks so I'd rather not let it rumble on!

Just doing my packing for tonight :j :j Seem to have rather a ludicrous amount of stuff :eek: but we're taking our own bedding so we don't have to wash and dry theirs, and we've said we'll take them a couple of bits of furniture too.

When Mr Cheery comes back we'll have to try and rearrange the car so the stuff we need tonight is easy to get at - we'll be arriving about 11pm so want to cause as little disruption as possible to our neighbours :eek: :rotfl: