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

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: You daft lot

I had a lovely birthday thank you :j Me and Mr Cheery went out for a very tasty curry at our favourite place :j

Then Thursday I had to go to work, and then there was some kind of wine reception so I started drinking at 4pm, and then I was still drinking at 11 :eek: there was a Vietnamese restaurant in there somewhere, and I hope I didn't embarrass myself in front of my new colleagues

I was pretty much the only one in the office today, and good grief I've felt rotten :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Got home about 20 mins ago and going back out again as soon as I've eaten my tea as Mr Cheery has a gig tonight and I'm off to be groupie girlfriend (or hide in the corner with a pair of dark glasses girlfriend, more like :rotfl: )

Tired now :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Evening :hello:

Had a nice evening last night actually - got to love a gig with FREE tea and belgian chocolate seashells :money:

Today has been successful - quickest parkrun this year :j since may last year actually :j :j Ordered my free parkrun t shirt too :j :j

Then FINALLY got round to plastering one of the landing walls :j :j well, most of it :rotfl: first I mixed the plaster with warm water - damn thing set as I was mixing it and was entirely solid by the time i got downstairs :rotfl: :rotfl:

So had to clean out a different bucket and start again :rotfl: Both ends if the wall were completely disintegrating :eek: so had to do a million layers of PVA and basically rebuild both edges with bonding plaster :eek:

Anyway, it was a complete faff, a ludicrous amount of mess, and bloody exhausting but I actually quite enjoyed it amd I am SO pleased - it looks PERFECT and cost us about £2.50 for the plaster, if that :money:

Bargainous day! :j well, it would have been if we hadn't then had a takeaway :rotfl:bizarrely it came with a random pot of sweet and sour sauce instead of the prawn crackers...

Karmacat

Cheery, that sounds amazing, that plastering, well done you! Sounds like a brilliant day altogether, actually - and the house must be looking really different now.

BEAT_THE_DEBT

Wow well done on plastering

Cheery_Daff

Thanks both :hello:

House just keeps getting messier sadly :rotfl: but tiny pockets of it are starting to be finished, which is EXTREMELY cheerful :j :j Mr Cheery is doing stirling work in the bathroom, cladding the lower half of the wall :j Should be finished in the next day or two :j :j and after that I can start plastering in there too

Going to finish the bit of the wall I didn't get to yesterday in a bit. Bit I *did* finish looks and feels GREAT so that's really given me confidence (possibly false confidence, but there we are :rotfl: )

Had a friend visiting today who I used to work with and haven't seen for months Lovely day, and she's introduced me to geocaching, which is most cheerful, and might give me something else to distract me on a long run :rotfl:

First of all though, I have GOT to have a nap, I am SO tired :eek: :rotfl:

milasavesmoney

Being good at DIY is so rewarding. And the good part is the more you are successful at it, the more confidence you gain to try other projects. Plus the money saving!!! Plus you can even do inside jobs in your nighties.

Very satisfying all the way around. Good for you both!:T:T:T:j:j

Cheery_Daff

Indeed Mila :j although I won't be plastering in my nightie - I'm far too messy and would only ruin it :rotfl: although we did find a set of those flimsy super cheap overalls in a cupboard earlier so i've been wearing them today - could definitely work over a nightie

Did catch mr cheery in what he described as 'DIY slippers' -We're a right pair! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Tescodealqueen

Hi Cheery, I tend not to log on to follow the diaries but I have pmd you

starnac

Well done on the plastering Cheery. That's amazing. We have quite a bit of plastering work needing doing which DH keeps saying he'll do but never gets round to it!

The house really sounds like it's coming on now.

Well done on your pastes the parkrun since last year and :j to ordering your t shirt. It will be a great feeling to wear it x

Cheery_Daff

Gosh, it's days since I was in here, sorry! :eek:

TDQ thanks Have pmed you back And then have not checked to see if you replied, so if you have and I've ignored it, I'm sorry :rotfl:

Parkrun t shirt arrived :j :j And with it a free mini pack of haribo sweets :rotfl: Most jolly Going to wear it on Saturday for this running with wolves thing as I need to wear something red!

Speaking of running... ran 10 miles on Monday :eek: Pretty quick for me, but since then I've been utterly worn out Busy week too - Tuesday was at work, then slimming world (put on a pound, hardly surprising ), Wednesday at a work event, then meeting in the evening, today at another work event/workshop thing, tomorrow in York, Saturday off to see family for wolves thing. SO tired

Not helping that I just sat and ate an entire pack of biscuits This is NOT the way to get that 1lb (and all the rest) back off nor is it the way to make me feel less tired! aarrgghh!

(they were very nice though )

Did just strip the last of the paper off the stairs though :j :j which means that technically I could plaster a bit of it tonight, if I could be arsed... also not washed up after tea yet, or packed bag ready for York tomorrow, or practiced presentation... and really I now just want to sleep after eating all those biscuits!

Sorry, this is a bit of an oh, woe is me post... :rotfl: