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

rtandon27

Happy Birthday Cheery!


Hope you have been having a fabulous day!!!

starnac

Oh no! Is it your birthday today?? So sorry I missed it. Happy birthday Cheery. Anyone got a big cake smiley??

stepuptothepl8

Happy birthday Cheery!
Hope you're having a fab day x

Cheery_Daff

Thank you lovely people! :kisses3:

Had a lovely day :j Planned a tasty breakfast of luxury porridge with apricots and almonds - except we didn't check we had any porridge :rotfl:

So I had a nice long lie in while Mr Cheery went to the shop :rotfl: Stirred in a few maltesers too... :j :j Lovely jubbly :j

So I lay in bed til nearly lunchtime eating maltesers :rotfl: Then we went to Buxton and pottered about doing charity shops/cafes/park :j

Then home again and I was so tired I went back to bed for a disco nap at 7.15 and woke up half an hour ago :eek: :rotfl:

Goodness me I needed it though after 2 late nights and about 10 hours of driving :eek:

We were going to go out for tea but having slept through teatime it didn't really seem worth it so I just had another bowl of luxury porridge :rotfl:

stressed.mum

Happy Birthday Cheery, sounds like you had a great day xxxxx

Karmacat

Happy birthday for yesterday, Cheery!

Cheery_Daff

Thank you, you lovely people :kisses3:

Been in work today and we FINALLY put the finishing touches to a piece of work that's taken us over three years :j :j Boss bought a packet of freddo faces to celebrate :rotfl: :rotfl:

Money is all over the place :$ Paid on Thursday thank goodness. Been galivanting and spending left, right and centre and just had to poach money out of what I'd allocated to the Patchwork Fund this month :eek: :eek: VERY cross about that - and just goes to show that I should put it in the ISA as soon as I get it - only reason I didn't was because I thought we'd need to pay the roofer but it turns out the new one hasn't bothered to quote so we still don't have it done anyway, gah!

Looking at the spending culprits... (because I'm still logging it all in YNAB)...

My own personal spends have been quite, er, spendy A weekend away, quite a few lunches with various pals, a hair cut, a couple of taxis :eek: TWO races (over £20 each :eek: ) and 6 weeks upfront of slimming world... :eek: All adds up!

Diesel and treats budget have both gone over, partly we've been away and done lots of visiting this month. I had a tooth out, so that was £50 I hadn't budgeted for. Impromptu birthday presents, £32 of £2 coins (which I just CANNOT bring myself to spend :rotfl: but I did put £72 worth of them back into the bank to help pay for weekend away :rotfl: )

And £195 for a course I'm going on in June, which didn't help :eek: MUST remember to book train tickets else that's going to get even more ludicrously expensive! :eek:

So. This coming month... here's the plan...

£469 straight in the Patchwork Fund - no excuses. If we need to pay the roofer we can filch it from the emergency fund til next payday. Patchwork comes first! :j

Allotment folks owe me £71, so I'll make sure I get that back.

RAC cover is due, but that's sat there waiting and ready :j Mr Cheery's internet hosting is due, so we'll need to allocate that

Not got much social planned - couple of races which will involve driving over towards my mother so will need a bit of diesel money allocating.

But I'm going to head over and absorb some of the wise words on the YNAB forum and get myself back in the mindset of checking what's left in the budget BEFORE spending, rather than just poaching it afterwards! :rotfl:

Anyway, off now for 6 days :j :j :j I could get used to this just working 1 day in every 12 business :rotfl: :rotfl: Docs in the morning, then meeting a couple of pals for lunch, very jolly

Cheery_Daff

Good grief - came in here to post an hour ago and got all sidetracked with the link to the first page of my diary at the top of the page :eek: Followed my own links back to my own previous diaries and lost myself for an hour reading about what my life was like in 2010 :eek:

(pretty much the same as now, it turns out, except I worked less and spent less and hadn't quite finished the PhD yet! :rotfl: )

Can't even remember what I came in for now :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Ah - roofing :rotfl: Finally had a second quote for sorting the roof - although it's difficult to compare as they both thought different things needed doing... :mad:

Last one quoted £1000 plus 'a bit more' for finding any broken tiles.

This one quoted £1900+20% VAT :eek: :eek:

We'd asked him to quote for the three different bits separately but he hasn't bothered so I've just emailed to say we're blatantly not going to have EVERYTHING done and could he quote separately as we discussed please... :eek:

Honestly, I get increasingly vexed with tradesmen (and my experiences are all with tradesMEN - no idea if women would be more reliable but I've yet to find a female roofer round here!) Roof has been 'fixed' 3 times now and still leaks, and these two roofers both reckoned completely different things were wrong with it and have quoted for different things.

How am I meant to know what actually *needs* doing? Are they actually just making it up?!

And don't get me started on plasterers - I've had FOUR round in the last few weeks and not a single one has bothered to actually provide me with a quote! :eek:

Grr.

(sorry, rant over :rotfl: )

starnac

Oh Cheery that doesn't sound good at all. hope he replies to your email and actually quotes you like you had asked. I don't think I have ever seen a female roofer either. I've seen a few female electricians, plasterers, painter and decorators but never a roofer.

Sounds expensive for the roof. Can't believe its been fixed a few times and it still leaks. There's obviously *something* not right. Surely a roofer should be able to tell you what is wrong.

Must have been nice reading through your old diaries x