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

Cheery_Daff

All done :j Somehow posting that I was going to helped :rotfl:

Poor lad who answered the door was the first bloke i complained at weeks ago - he was at his parents house last night and was horrified they'd been making a racket again It's his number i've got so i'm quite glad i didn't ring at 5am if he wasn't there! :rotfl:

Need a stiff drink now

Greying_Pilgrim

Cherry - I feel for you with the noisy neighbours (even if they are remorseful after the event) - takes me straight back to when we had a gaggle of late-teenagers move in next door to DP's house. Luckily for us, it didn't last too long, as the relationship between 2 of them broke up, and which ever parent was guaranteeing the rent obviously wasn't going to be taken for a mug. Carp at the time though - especially on work nights

I was reading a blog (live simply simply live) and I saw THIS pic at the top of a post - I thought to myself, if Cheery ever opens a tea 'n cake shoppe, she'll have a sign like that outside.......:rotfl:

Greying

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: Thank you SO much for that Greying Made me giggle over my porridge Yes I definitely WOULD have a sign like that (and I'd love to have a tea and cake shop! One day...)

Probably not much to report today. Off to the community allotment this morning (free, and I might even come back with some herbs or something), and then I have to buy a cake for someone's birthday since I gave the one I bought yesterday to the neighbours :rotfl:

Might give the shower another coat of paint this afternoon. Tis cold and misty out there so once I come in I'll probably want to stay in!

Oh! And I channelled my inner Pippi this morning and have already put a stew in the slower cooker (although as I type I've just remembered I havenn't actually turned the slow cooker ON!! That would have been a mighty disappointment come lunchtime wouldn't it?!) :eek: :rotfl:

Karmacat

Thats very brave, Cheery, I'm glad it went well. Hope the stew tastes yummy - slow cookers were a godsend to me when I went out to work.

Cheery_Daff

Stew is indeed extremely tasty - slurping on it now as we speak :j I'm actually going to leave it in there on low for a few more hours though - it's pretty much cooked but it's still very much 'vegetables and watery broth', whereas personally I'm rather a fan of 'unidentifiable mush' type of stew

Anyway, means I can have the same thing for dinner and tea :j

Lovely morning on the community allotment digging :j and now the sun's trying to come out, so I might get out in my own garden for the first time this year :j :j Got abig pile of lilac to cut into car-friendly bits so I can take to the tip, and I think I'm going to do a bit of changing the shape of beds and things so I might lay stuff out to see how it looks.

Also want to paint the shower, and I'd *really* like a bath.... Hmm. Can't have a bath AFTER painting the shower as I'll inhale too many fumes and the steam will make the paint run :rotfl: But then will I want to start painting *after* I've had a bath?!

Still, if that's the hardest decision I have to make today then I should be darn grateful :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Well I did have a nice bath and didn't get round to painting the shower, but never mind :rotfl:

Working at home today thank goodness. Rainy and grim outside so far!

Hadn't done any banking over the weekend, just been putting things in YNAB app on phone so just checked that against bank account and purse. Bank account fine - but YNAB thinks I have £2.95 more than I actually have in cash... If it was an odd amount I'd think I'd entered something wrong, but at that amount it's quite conceivable that I've bought something and forgotten to log it Can't think what!

Ah well, I'm not spending all morning fussing about £2.95. I've added it to my 'budget fiddling' category which I created for just such an eventuality :rotfl:

Enjoyed yesterday's stew so much that I've stuck another one in the slow cooker, and put some bread on too :j :j :j Come 1pm the house should be smelling glorious and we shall have a FEAST :j :j Really must get the hang of doing this on working at home days - doesn't take long, saves me just eating porridge for lunch and uses up the giant pile of reduced veg and the ENORMOUS bags of split peas, green lentils, stew mix in the cupboards :rotfl: :rotfl:

Added 40p to the VSP too - it all helps! :j :j £43.96 in there now - I use it as tea-and-scone money when we go away so it makes me VERY happy to think how many scones that will buy :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Oh, and I realised I'd added up my signature wrong :rotfl: £1029 + £60 is NOT £1109... :rotfl:

Karmacat

I love it, thats my sort of arithmetic :rotfl:

And getting into a routine of cooking when you're working at home is *so* nutritious for you, and very yummy :j

starnac

Morning cheery wet and grey here too! But first day of half term so all good

Love that you have a "budget fiddling" category!! :rotfl: I had a look at YNAB but couldn't get on with it so I made my own with an excel spreadsheet and I've been keeping up to date for 2 months now. We've saved quite a bit by keeping a better eye on things too

Cheery_Daff

My budget fiddling category is a LOT less used since I started using YNAB :rotfl: I've become quite obsessed with it Took a bit of getting used to but I adore it now. But I'll try not to go on too much!

Tracking what you spend does indeed make a HUGE difference, however you do it! :j :j

Had a phone call from the roofer this morning and he's FINALLY come round to collect the money for fixing our roof tile :rotfl: I really don't understand why they didn't just knock on the door for it at the time :rotfl: Still, I can stop thinking about it now.

And the stew smelled glorious when I went downstairs. Only 1.5 hours to go! (for the bread, that is, I can't imagine the stew needs to be timed so specifically!)

Forgot to say I dug up some accidental potatoes at the allotment yesterday, a pretty mix of pink and white ones Too pretty to go into the stew, might have them boiled tomorrow night :j

And I ordered some seeds this morning - I'm going to have a go at growing my own loofahs now I have access to a polytunnel :rotfl: