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

Karmacat

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!

Absolutely understand not letting it rumble on ... but I was thinking of, if *you* want to sell, you have to declare if *you'd* made a complaint, and popping round might qualify. However, since they're renters ... go ahead and good luck :j:j:j

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.

Enjoy the trip :beer:

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:

Excellent thought

Cheery_Daff

Hi all :hello:

Goodness, what a week! On Wednesday night we raced up the country to spend a few days in a cottage in the Dales our friends have just bought. Very isolated, 3 miles down a little windy track in the middle of nowhere - but also in the middle of a terrace of 3 houses :rotfl:

Then it snowed and I was too wobbly about going down the little track in the snow so we just stayed in the house :rotfl: Very cosy though :j

The whole thing was thoroughly :money: Cottage was free, we offered to make a contribution to the gas etc but they wouldn't accept it - they've only just bought it and it's been empty for a while (and they're not currently living there), and it was built in 1660 ish :eek: so they're grateful for someone being there drying out the walls! Took some furniture etc up for them too and brought their post back, checked the gas meter etc.

Then because of the snow we didn't go anywhere so we spent a grand total of £3 on tea on the first day (when it wasn't snowing), and then another few quid on the way home (tea, woolly socks, a bit of food for the journey). Took all our own food with us (good job really given we ended up stuck!) so basically just about £35 worth of diesel for 4 nights away :j

Home now, and it's tough getting started again... :rotfl:

Spent an hour playing with banks and YNAB - I'd been entering things on the phone but obviously no internet or phone signal so it wouldn't sync with the computer, but then I couldn't make it sync this morning either. All sorted now though! :j

Right, another cuppa and then up to the attic. Yawn.

Oh! and just saw this

Karmacat wrote: »

Absolutely understand not letting it rumble on ... but I was thinking of, if *you* want to sell, you have to declare if *you'd* made a complaint, and popping round might qualify. However, since they're renters ... go ahead and good luck :j:j:j

Would I really have to declare 'I once popped round and said to our lovely young neighbour that he'd been talking rather loudly at stupid-o-clock in the morning and would he mind staying downstairs if he was going to do that in the future'?? Because that's what I did, and he was ever so embarrassed, and I felt dreadful (well, not that dreadful...)

Ah well. It's done now, and I generally adopt the stance that it's best to treat your house as a *home* and do what makes you comfortable in it now (including asking the neighbours to keep it down occasionally, painting it mad colours and knocking walls out if necessary), rather than treating it as an 'investment' and doing things that might make it easier to sell in the future.

If we ever do get round to moving and we can't sell because of the knocked out floor, red walls and occasional talking from the neighbours then feel free to wave this post in my face :rotfl: :rotfl:

Right, I have hot water bottle, tea, banks all sorted, and really I also have no more excuses not to crack on!

Cheery_Daff

Oh! and the stupid Ovo saga rumbles on - got home to two cards through the door from someone trying to read the meter :rotfl: :rotfl:

Er, I thought that was the very point of having a SMART meter installed?! :rotfl:

They'll be getting another slightly stroppy phone call from me today I'm afraid... watch this space...

Cheery_Daff

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Goodness knows what they think of me in that call centre :rotfl: :rotfl:

Apparently, despite having a smart meter, they can't stop people knocking on the door to read the meter as it's a national contract and they just go to everyone regardless :rotfl:

Also when they install a smart meter you get put on 'billing suspension' for 16 weeks (!!) while it syncs with everything in the national system (or something). When I 'complained' before Christmas, it seems someone manually took me off billing suspension for long enough for us to get one bill - then put us back on again so we still can't change our 'flexible' direct debit etc :rotfl:

The young lady has gone off to make someone put me an information booklet in an envelope while she's actually on the telephone so I might actually get one this time :rotfl:

Well, apparently she emailed it while we were on the phone - but it still hasn't arrived 10 minutes later :rotfl: Maybe there's some kind of black hole between me and them?!

I did venture to ask what would happen if I wanted to leave at the end of my contract (end of Jan) - apparently someone else might have to install another smart meter... :rotfl:

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

The whole thing was thoroughly :money: Cottage was free, we offered to make a contribution to the gas etc but they wouldn't accept it - they've only just bought it and it's been empty for a while (and they're not currently living there), and it was built in 1660 ish :eek: so they're grateful for someone being there drying out the walls! Took some furniture etc up for them too and brought their post back, checked the gas meter etc.

It sounds wonderful! Win-win :j

Would I really have to declare 'I once popped round and said to our lovely young neighbour that he'd been talking rather loudly at stupid-o-clock in the morning and would he mind staying downstairs if he was going to do that in the future'?? Because that's what I did, and he was ever so embarrassed, and I felt dreadful (well, not that dreadful...)

Lets just call it my paranoia :o:o :eek: and move on

Ah well. It's done now, and I generally adopt the stance that it's best to treat your house as a *home* and do what makes you comfortable in it now (including asking the neighbours to keep it down occasionally, painting it mad colours and knocking walls out if necessary), rather than treating it as an 'investment' and doing things that might make it easier to sell in the future.

And very healthy that is too! Completely non-paranoid :money::beer:
I don't treat my home as an investment, but I confess, with my long term neighbours through the party wall, I'll need a niche buyer ... probably (intoned as per the Carlsberg ads ).

If we ever do get round to moving and we can't sell because of the knocked out floor, red walls and occasional talking from the neighbours then feel free to wave this post in my face :rotfl: :rotfl:

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You're much too nice for me ever to do that :eek:

And anyway, it sounds like you really enjoy living where you do :j erm, except for your energy supplier

Cheery_Daff

ach, they're just a minor nuisance :rotfl:

Sorry KC, i didn't mean to suggest you were paranoid! Your approach is probably the sensible one, especiaooy given your actual neighbours! :eek: Fortunately ours don't sound anything like as bad as yours, just a couple of young lads in high spirits not realising how much sound carries... I'm sure in your situation I might have done something different

To be honesrt we have more trouble round here from the constant 'home improvements' everyone else seems to be making! :eek: there's only about 10 houses in our street but there's ALWAYS someone having t!hag ,elbadaernu ylbaborp si siht os dam enog sah enohp won dna

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Cheery_Daff

WHY does it do that?! there i was, typing away, and then it stopped printing what i was typing - thought it'd catch up but it didn't, nothing showing at all

and then when i press submit, there are all my words - BACKWARDS!! :eek: :eek: :rotfl: How is that even possible?! :rotfl:

Anyway, i was just rambling

So yes, sorry KC, didn't mean to sound like i was criticising you! i most certainly wasn't. If i could remember how to do the nice, non-bizarre kissing smiley i would...

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

WHY does it do that?! there i was, typing away, and then it stopped printing what i was typing - thought it'd catch up but it didn't, nothing showing at all

and then when i press submit, there are all my words - BACKWARDS!! :eek: :eek: :rotfl: How is that even possible?! :rotfl:

I'm still laughing at what it did to your post :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: brilliant

So yes, sorry KC, didn't mean to sound like i was criticising you! i most certainly wasn't. If i could remember how to do the nice, non-bizarre kissing smiley i would...

Of course not :kisses3: have some cake :bdaycake: :j

Cheery_Daff

ooh, cake, excellent, thank you!

Cheery_Daff

Right, today's :money: activity has been to buy some cheap hairdressing scissors and a version of a crea clip thing. It seems you can use them to quickly and easily cut your own hair :j

I cut my own hair for years using the 'lop a bit off the bottom' method :rotfl: but these days I have a fringe and layers and like to be a little more stylish than I was of old (well, sometimes anyway...). I've tried cutting my own fringe a few times and it ALWAYS looks rotten :eek:

Last time I went to the hairdresser it had increased from £10 to £12 (er, I don't exactly splash out on a posh stylist :rotfl: ) - just paid £12.62 for a set of these clip things and a pair of hairdressing scissors :money: :j

If it works, I will have saved myself probably 4 hair cuts a year?? £50 ish?

And if it doesn't, well, it only cost me the price of one haircut, so I'll just go once less often and it won't have cost me anything at all

Wasting time? Me? Never :rotfl: