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

Cheery_Daff

Remember what?! :eek: oh, what I came into your thread to say the other day? No :rotfl:

Just dashing through, at work with a banging headache and a whole day of unavoidable screen staring ahead :eek:

Trying to get this bit done as quickly as possible so I can sneak out for a very quick swim at lunchtime!

Cheery_Daff

Well I did sneak out for a swim and it was quite alarming as it had been so long i'd almost forgotten how to coordinate arms and legs! :eek: :rotfl:

Fortunately I remembered and had a grand old time at the triathlon on Sunday swim was an outdoor pool so quite cheerful and mr cheers managed to get some pics and a video - never seen myself swimming before!

Bike was lovely isolated country lanes and I confess I kept forgetting I was meant to be racing :rotfl: :rotfl:

Run was in absolute torrential downpour, 4 laps of a grassy field and NOT my finest hour... Sister beat me overall by 13 mins - she gained 10 of those on the run! :rotfl: Doesn'tbode well for the half marathon this Sunday :eek: but at least I won't have been swimming and just cycled 12.5 miles directly before that :rotfl: :rotfl:

In other exciting news... the plasterer has been :j :j Six hours and they'd put up scaffolding, plastered the entire ceiling, dismantled scaffolding, had lunch and left :rotfl: takes me that long to do one tiny wall!! :rotfl: :rotfl: Back tomorrow to do over the stairs :j

I carried on working til 9 tonight :eek: own fault for misjudging things I've not done before Going to get up super early to get it finished, then got a meeting at lunchtime and then going to leave and not at work again til next Wednesday Most pleased

Oh, and my new favourite thing is that carpet protector stuff the plasterer is using - like a combination between sticky backed plastic and cling film Love it Might just leave it down even after he's left

Right, should probably go to sleep...

Cheery_Daff

:j :j :j

All the work I've been ploughing through for the last 6 weeks is now FINISHED :j :j :j And I'm officially off til next Wednesday now :j :j :j Woo and indeed hoo

Plasterer has been - both bits look ACE and about 100 times more professional than my own attempts, which is as it should be really £720 in total, including scaffolding, which is just under what he'd quoted. They were a lovely pair too and always turned up exactly when they said and didn't require any chasing Wish I'd sat and watched how they did it but that felt a bit creepy (and also I've been frantically trying to finish this work)

Just going to shut down the work computer (came rooting on this one for a photo to send someone for a website, urgh) and then sort out YNAB, which has been sorely neglected for a few days and is probably in a right old mess. Then I'm going to shut down this computer too and head out into the garden - I've been working solidly since 6.30am today so it's about time I stopped

Cheery_Daff

Evening :hello:

Sorted YNAB this morning - haven't done it for a few days and it was all over the place! :eek: Bought SO many teensy little bits here and there Only had to stick £4 in the 'budget fiddling' section :rotfl:

Nothing much else to report I don't think! Bought a giant big red poppy for the garden but it's raining so not put it out there yet. Making a butternut squash and lentil curry

milasavesmoney

Oh great news that you are pleased with the plaster job! It's wonderful to have people who show up on time and do a great job under budget! What a blessing!!

And congrats on finishing your work with time off now!! Enjoy your garden and I'm wishing you sunny days to do so. Send that rain my way...we need it!

stepuptothepl8

Half marathon??! I did my first proper 10k a week or so ago.. And it didn't kill me! I was very slow though - stopped to help someone who was ill - which of course impacted on my time. I'm toying with the idea of a half now :eek!:

Please may I have the recipe for the butternut squash and lentil curry? It sounds delish! And your plastering sounds amazing.. I definitely lack the skill to do much DIY apart from wallpapering

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Mila It was actually a real pleasure hving him around, he was so cheery :rotfl: :rotfl: Found him on Check A Trade which is my new favourite thing - like Trip Advisor for traders :rotfl: must remember to put my own review on there tomorrow

Ooh, well done StepUp :j :j :j good work and well done for stopping to help. and a half next hey? No stopping you now

I'm not really looking forward to mine It's my 7th (9th?? Lost count!) And I've done so little training I'm likely to come last again I"ve come last in all but one of mine - I don't mind but it was REALLY nice when I did some decent training and didn't come last for once most recent races I've done with my sister which has been lovely, but she's done a whole load more training than me and hasn't done an ordinary half marathon yet so she's chasing a time and she'll speed off amd leave me behind :rotfl:

Small excitement here when I went out to put something in the bin earlier and discovered the plasterer put a load of stuff out there - including a load of plasterboard offcuts :j Not normally a cause for excitement but with all the holes in this house, well, waste not want not :money:

Sadly it's been raining all day so the top bis are rather damp but have rescued plenty from underneath :j

Cheery_Daff

Oh, sorry, recipe

Er, I'm afraid I don't really do recipes :rotfl:

I chopped a butternut squash and put in the oven sprayed with a bit of frylight stuff

Did leeks, red onion in a pan with some curry powder, added red lentils, stock cube, tomato puree, water and a load of chopped fresh spinach, then bunged in the squash when it was done.

Had it with a staffordshire oatcake

milasavesmoney

I think this recipe would work with acorn squash (which I have) and will make this when my son and his girlfriend come next weekend.
I am now going away to google staffordshire oat cake.

Cheery_Daff

I think that recipe would work with anything you chose to put in it It's really just some veg and lentils with a stock cube and a bit of curry powder - basis for most of my meals actually :rotfl: :rotfl:

Not sure I've ever had acorn squash! Is it really tiny like an acorn? Or just acorn shaped? Or does it taste of acorns??

When I've got my new giant rambling garden I am going to grow SO much squash, all over the place :j :j

Love staffordahire oatcakes they're all floppy like a pancake but sturdier. I don't like in Staffordshire any more but occasionally see them in Tesco, and they were 4 for £1 in a local shop in Bakewell yesterday. In think traditionally you have them with bacon and cheese etc but I basically use them as a wrap and stick whatever I like in them - like curry :rotfl:

Right - whole day of plastering today! :j :j :j banks first though so they don't get all pesky like they did the other day then plastering like a demon :j

Places that still need plastering (going to start at the top and work way down this week)

*chimney breast by bed
* landing wall (might need to do in 2 stages as some is fiddly
* bathroom
* one wall on attic stairs
* one wall on normal stairs
* offshot by back door (nowhere near that yet but thought I'd add to list anyway!)

Starting to feel like we're making a difference to the house now - finally! :rotfl: :rotfl: