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

Cheery_Daff

Wedding was lovely :j we all took food and of corse everyone tries to outdo each other so it was a lovely spread and just the right amount, not much left over either. We'd all joined in, made buntting etc and they're both musicians (along with many of the people there) so plenty of inpromptu music and dancing all night too Lovely to see so many folks too

Today... still in bed have been reading Kate Humble's book about her smallholding and dreaming of chickens and sheep :rotfl:

Sun's shining though so I should probably get up and I'm really rather peckish!

House progress... several more floorboards down on the landing now :j :j I'm assured it will be finished today but as it's a nice day I might suggest we go out instead

Plasterer came to measure for scaffolding yesterday and to have another look at job over stairs. Will send me revised quote (which will mean I don't have to strip the paper off), and investigate cost of scaffolding and text me next week. Provisionally booked in for 10th May, which feels like forever away :eek: but we'll have to shift pretty much everything out of the bedroom to get the scaffold tower in, and at the minute have nowhere else to put it... this will let us finish the landing and the spare bedroom, and then everything can go in there and we can sleep in the attic for a couple of nights. What a palaver!!

Still, getting there. Slowly...

Started digging up willow round edge of garden. I love the noise it makes and the light coming through it but I just can't keep it at 3 foot high obviously and it's far too mad and scruffy to sell the house with so it's comig out. Trouble is, it's got its feet well and truly under the table so it's quite difficult!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Got a leftover rosemary from the wedding yesterday though (someone clearly been snipping to make some kind of salad) so I'll plant that out too Must also check on the new plants I put out last weekend - hope none of them are dead! :eek:

Oh, andneed to fix the hoover, which is objecting to the amount of work it has had to do lately compared to the life of leisure it was leading before, and has started making loud high pitched whining noises (bit like me really :rotfl: )

First job - breakfast! :j :j

Pippilongstocking

Sounds like full on day cheery me lass. No advice re the willow I'm sorry it looks scruffy. pesky thing.

YAy to a free plant.

Hope you get out in the sunshine its raining here now which makes life a bit more tolerable indoors.

I remembered last night its a year since we were nattering in the kitchen. Happy times.

littlemonkeywolf

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Ooh, do you have insider knowledge littlemonkeywolf? I think at this point it might depend entirely on whether i can drag myself out of bed - just bern woken up after a nice long nap and could happily sleep til tomorrow... :rotfl:

Just a parkrun addict or I HAVE to parkrun to allow for the cake to be consumed guilt free for the rest of the week.

I hop the foot gets better soon and you can squeeze the parkrun in. Having one of the tshirts make choosing what to wear much easier

Cheery_Daff

I love willow Pippi, and I adored it in your old garden with the wind blowing through I might try and save a few cuttings to start me off in my new garden Yes, I just had one of those Facebook things reminding me of sitting at your house, so much need another visit Me and Mr Cheery would love to pop up for a couple of days at some point soon Happy times indeed

Ha LMW, I can just imagine how much easier choosing a t shirt will be Most vexed that I'm not going to be able to do it this coming week :rotfl: Although actually, I've just cancelled the thing I *was* going to be doing and replaced it with a family visit - might be able to squeeze in a quick parkrun before I set off... :j :j Will see how my foot is :j

Been grumpy and underfed today Set off to go out for brunch and I KNEW I should eat before I go but for some baffling reason I didn't -cafe is only 10 mins away after all. However, I'd forgotten the half marathon was on and we just couldn't get across that side of town at all and there was so much traffic down tiny little residential streets as there were no diversion signs, and we ended up trapped for ages, and then in an expensive cafe where they said it would be half an hour for food so we just had tea and a freddo, and 2 hours later we were STILL not home and I had a bit of a meltdown outside B&Q :rotfl: :rotfl:

Home now Lunch had (although it's more afternoon tea now and we're off out for a curry in 3 hours!). Also bought a new pruning saw to replace the one I can't find so might do some lopping when I've had a restorative cuppa

Cheery_Daff

Well I did a teensy bit of sawing - can't reallycall it pruning as I was hacking off willow at the roots, trying to get it out without destroying my beloved gooseberry bush. Bought it from Poundland years ago, took a couple of years to get going but now it's fab I'd like to take it when we go but no point sticking it in a pot now - might be months before we leave and if the next person really wants it I'm not going ti argue over a gooseberry bush :rotfl: So it can stay for now and we'll probably still be here for this year's harvest anyway :rotfl:

Annual thyroid blood test done - although goodness knows why my levels would change when I don't have a thyroid at all and so it's alldone with tablets. You'd think it'd stay consistent! Maybe they're checking I actually take them properly... :rotfl:

Right, best go to work I suppose, can't stand around in the docs all day...

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums :hello:

Glorious sunny day today - so far I have spent it trying to wade through the mess I've made of my finances after several days of not filling in YNAB :rotfl:

All done now though Might have fudged a couple of cups of tea into the wrong categories, but all tiny amounts and all accounted for somewhere so doesn't really matter :rotfl:

All looking healthy enough, although there's only £1.35 left in the treats budget this month after us going out for a curry with pals and spending far more than we would have done alone :eek: Mind you, we mostly spend that budget on takeaways so I'm sure we can manage without for a couple of weeks :rotfl: Might have to poach some from elsewhere for a cheery cuppa out in the countryside one day though

£79 work expenses paid :j :j Mostly gone to cover my mad Wolves running race/theatre thing that Starnac made me do by being so damn enthusiastic about it what's left is staying in the 'work expenses' category so I can cover next time in advance.

Payday next Monday :j Looking forward to doing some shuffling

Not had an updated quote from the plasterer yet - original was £450 for main bedroom and £150 for stairs = £600. However, we're now doing more to the stairs (my estimate is that it'll go up to £200-250) plus I'll need to pay for scaffolding tower (he estimates £20, I guess anything up to £200...). So top estimate roughly £850 :eek: Still, it'll get it all done, and hopefully will be less than that... £438 in that pot at the minute but he's not coming til mid May so I'll put another £400 in when I'm paid next week and that should cover it.

Holiday fund looking a bit sad at £305... but I think we'll probably just stick to the odd weekend this year and focus on moving house. Mind you, we said that last year until it became apparent we were clearly NOT going to move house in 2015 and I insisted on going on holiday instead as I was going mad :rotfl: So I'm still throwing odd bits of money in there as and when I can just in case :rotfl:

Bit frustrated Patchwork Fund (for house moving costs) hasn't increased this month - but that's because what I would normally have put in there has gone to plasterer fund and to replace the windows. Should be able to put *some* in next week, then back to normal in May and it'll start to build up again :j

At least the car maintenance fund is looking relatively healthy at £155, with MOT not due til September :j Fingers crossed nothing goes wrong before then....

I'm doing better with my unnecessary spending Just under half of my budget gone for this month, and we're just under half way through :j Although race/theatre tickets are on top of that, and I'm planning to buy a new pair of running shoes this week...

Anyway, must go to work! :eek:

Cheery_Daff

Just checking diary - no more big expenses coming up this month for me. Visiting family at the weekend but we haven't put this month's diesel in yet anyway so that will cover that - I'm doing a fair bit more driving in May though so will probably need extra then (maybe)

It's also my birthday in April but not got any plans (in fact I'm going to be at WORK for the first time in years! :eek: ) Outrageous :rotfl: Might take a long weekend off instead

starnac

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

£79 work expenses paid :j :j Mostly gone to cover my mad Wolves running race/theatre thing that Starnac made me do by being so damn enthusiastic about it

:eek::eek: I deny ALL knowledge :rotfl:Worth it though

You'll be in work on your birthday?? :eek: How preposterous! I had mine beginning of the week and I sent the kids back to school after the school holidays :rotfl:You definitely need a long weekend off

Cheery_Daff

Outrageous isn't it?? :rotfl: I could technically be off if I insisted but there are meetings I'd actually like to be at!

(I should clarify that the theatre thing did only cost £15 each, not £79! :eek: :rotfl: )

Plasterer just texted - £750 for both jobs which is fine, but has asked if we can wait til June :eek: i want to be selling the house by then! (Although in reality we probablh won't be...) Main problem with waiting til June is that with holidays and messing aroubd it might turn into late june, then July... Going to just text and say no (hate doing things like that!)

starnac

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

(I should clarify that the theatre thing did only cost £15 each, not £79! :eek: :rotfl: )

I did wonder as tickets were only £14 down here so that would have been a HUUUUGE price hike! :eek:

Why does the plasterer want to wait til June? Even if you weren't selling why would you want to wait that long? You could have done it yourself by then! Did you text him?