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

Cheery_Daff

Evening all

Starnac, I've reported all kinds of people for Spam by accident before now I always try to unspam as quickly as possible and hope people don't find out :rotfl: And Greying :rotfl: at you spamming Pippi's thread :rotfl: How funny

Plumber reckons it's air in the pipes, but I told him I wasn't willing to leave it on unless he was here just in case so he's coming back at 8am tomorrow :eek:

Finally got round to reading the meters tonight - I don't know why I put it off. WEll, I do - it's because it's in the cellar, which is full of *stuff* and it's hard to get down there and dark and cold

So I set the timer (which I sometimes do, to shame myself into doing silly jobs that I put off), and do you know how long it took me?? To move 6 guitars out of the way of the door, find a pen and paper, clear a path to the gas meter (Mr Cheery piled stuff in front of it so the plumber could get at the water thingy), put all the guitars back AND enter the readings into the website?

Go on, guess...

... 4 minutes and 51 seconds :rotfl: :rotfl:

'big job' indeed :rotfl:

Anyway, it appears we're £500 in credit :eek: so they've suggested we adjust our direct debit again They're suggesting £99, so I'm going to go with that - an improvement on the £150 we were paying at the start of the year :j :j

I could request a refund, but since we're going into the winter, and since they actually pay 3% interest (I think) on credit with them, which is more than the bank, I might not bother

Cheery_Daff

Gah, just sorting banks - according to spreadsheet the current account should have £195 in - but it's actually only got £29 :eek: Ridiculous thing!

Suspect that might be my fault - slightly lost track this month :rotfl:

Anyway, had to do a bit of budget fiddling anyway cos Mr Cheery bought a nice new drill to do lots of Fixing Things with, and there's not enough in there for him to get the cash back...

Hang on, will get a cuppa and try to remember my spends...

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: just went back to energy site to switch direct debit and it said 'did you find something better to do? we've logged you out' :rotfl: :rotfl:

All switched now so that's an extra £9 a month going to the savings account from now on :j Hoping sorting the hot water out will make a huge difference too (although probably not over the winter so much!)

Anyway, spends...

Wed 15th - NSD 6 :j
Thurs 16th - £1
Fri 17th - £11
Sat 18th - NSD 7 (actually we spent quite a bit but it all came from treats budget or food budget )
Sun 19th - NSD 8 (again, spent a bit on the treats budget... but not MY spendy spends )

Mon 20th - £2
Tues 21st - £1

So updating sig to... (counts on fingers and toes)

... £185 spent and 8 NSDs :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Gosh, now I'm spamming my own thread keep remembering stuff! :rotfl:

Rejoined the gym the other day, so that was £70 (for the joining fee and first 6 weeks til the DD kicks in) but NOT counting that cos I sold my old flute for £220 which has paid for an event I'm going to next month plus the first 3 months of gym membership :j

Also stopping slimming world from now on, so that money will pay the ongoing gym stuff

And that's it, REALLY going away now, off to have a nice bath in my nice new hot water

Karmacat

Hot water, wonderful! And your DD going down by £50!!!

And oh dear, I've spammed people in the past too .. I'm sure they're used to it, absolutely.

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: glad it's not just me! :rotfl:

Plumber is here, and heating system is making alarming thunking and wooshing noises while he gets all the air out of the system.

No idea if it would have settled itself anyway but I'm glad there's someone competent in the house while it's doing it! :rotfl:

Working at home today - booked onto a spin class (indoor cycling, not wool) at lunchtime but now I'm a member that doesn't cost anything today. Meeting tonight but donation for that is in an envelope so we may be looking at NSD number 9 :j :j

Cheery_Daff

Plumbing issue solved - cheery plumber had put lever on wrong pipe :eek: :rotfl:

Three identical pipes - one for heating, one for hot water, one for inflow of water into system. None labelled, no indication which one was which.

He'd put the heating lever on the inflow pipe, so when you turned it off (because you just wanted the hot water on), you were actually stopping the water flowing round the system :eek: which it didn't like, hence the rattling and thudding :eek:

All sorted now, he was very apologetic, I found the whole episode very amusing, and everything seems fine :rotfl: Can't blame him really, system is older than me and he'd never seen one like it before - many other plumbers would have just made us rip it out and replace it!

So all good And hopefully an even bigger reduction in the gas bill! :j :j

Need to bleed a couple of radiators though once system has settled... never done that before so youtube-arama awaits...

Karmacat

Excellent news! Well, that the fix was so easy and bleeding is easy truly (not the real sort! radiators!) just remember that having plenty of rags around really is important :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Good advice KC - I do worry about spraying the house with vile rusty radiator water :rotfl:

starnac

All sounding good here Cheery glad you got the thunking noise sorted. DD going down and being in credit. Well done on all accounts.

:rotfl: at the BIG job only taking less then 5mins! :rotfl: that's something I would do. Put it off and put it off when actually it doesn't take that long at all.