Extending our house without extending ourselves beyond our means

DawnW

PurpleFairy26 said:

Visitors - how lovely 😊 

dawn thanks for the info on the Apple tree, mine is miniature too so might give it a hair cut today. 

Minaret, not miniature. Like a cordon tree, but upright instead of slanting.

brizzlegirl

All very productive PF. I have managed about 16 tomato plants from seed this year (and definitely. some unexpected refugees from the compost heap ..good job we always decompose any old food and plants!!)  (whoop!) which are doing well. Always bought young plants from a nursery before so am pretty pleased.

Gooseberry and strawberries looking a bit sad. Think its the dry spell (not that I am complaining!) so we need to up the watering.

Planning a 10k late morning tomorrow with DD1 and a friend..wish me luck

brizzlegirl

My rosemary has been well and truly eaten by some caterpillar. Think needs to be thrown away and we start again. I may try to root a neighbour's cutting. Its an essential herb in our house so we need it one way or tother!!

PurpleFairy26

So a planned 30 minutes in one bedroom yesterday turned into 3 hours in 2 but boy do they look sparkly! Lots of stuff left the building via recycling or rubbish. I have 2 bags left, 1 for pal and 1 for selling. 

That will make this weeks task of more decorating in one much easier. Have some finishing touches to do in the other, but we already have the stuff so shouldn’t take more than an hour or so. Lovely to have the clutter sorted and de cluttered. 

Had a stunning weekend weather wise, and again today. DH did more excellent work in garden and edged the longest bed. We didn’t go anywhere other than a decent walk. Have no interest at all to go to crowds beauty spots with loads of others. 

More work to do in the garden this week but we are thoroughly enjoying spending time in there. 

June’s goals are: 

continue with garden - get it back to basics using what we have so we can then get patio and fencing done and some plants in over the next few months before winter. 

Paint a bedroom 
up some self care, using lotions and potions that I already have in (all pretty well gifted)
See if I can do 6 runs 

debtfreeoneday

I’m the same PF. No interest in crowds and busy places. 

1LuckyLady

Sounds like its all coming together nicely with the house now Pf

foxgloves

That's a busy plan, PF, it really must all be coming together now. It will really be worth all the time & planning you have put in when it's all done & you can sit back & enjoy it. 
F x

hugglemonster

Wow the house and garden are coming on at a pace, glad it's going well. I'm so glad for the rain today though the veg and grass could certainly use it, need to get some more Basil and Thyme going again though the only herb that has survived is the Parsley.

Have a lovely day, H x

savingholmes

Your house sparkles = sounds awesome. I need our cleaner to return before there's any chance of that here LOL

PurpleFairy26

Thanks for al your lovely comments. Yes, we do feel like we have made significant progress recently. Still lots to do but definitely moving in the right direction. 

 Quote received for 2 bits of work we need doing. Thankfully quotes were lower than expected. Will text them today to tell them to crack on an give us a date. One needs no prep and one just needs about an hours prep as we’ve done the rest already. 

Schoolwork needs doing over the next couple of days but aiming to do some house stuff in the afternoons but also keen to pick my knitting back up as it’s rather taken a back seat in the last few weeks. 

Veggies I’ve planted look ok and the rain yesterday definitely helped. Need to pot some more on over the next couple of days. 

Received £25 back to my CC from insurer. I’m going to OP it. Have also calculated how much I’ve saved in subs for smalls between now and September when they will go back at the earliest. I’ll OP that too.