Plodding determinedly up a 300k mountain!

greent

Fab weight loss

Fingers crossed for studentship

Did the hinge for the dining table get sorted?
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michelle09

I have been converted to calzones SHS! This may not be good for my weight loss.

Thanks try harder and greent. Hopefully will keep plodding on. We contacted the company and they promised to contact us in 7-10 working days. We will call again next week if we don't hear. Slightly annoying because apart from the one broken hinge it's really wonderful. If they sent us a new hinge in the post we could do it ourselves.

Slightly unexpected four day weekend. Realised with a medical appointment on Monday that I was only down to work Sunday so managed to get it off. My big plans today involve finishing my research slides for my interview on the 19th, and applying for a training role at a different company. It would pay £7k more than I currently earn so if I don't get the studentship at least I might be in line for a bigger paycheck?

The other big plan is to plant my runner beans! My grandfather grew runner beans for the first 62 years of his marriage and I was truly spoilt. I didn't have shop bought runner beans until I was 25 years old and I am far too snobby about them. So have decided to take up the family mantle and grow delicious vegetables.

We have our car back too! £1800 later (although it did pass it's MOT for the £27.44 minimum) and it is running much better. Amazing what new wheels, brake pads, throttles and engine parts will do. :rotfl:

shangaijimmy

Feel your financial pain on cars! I dread everything about cars!

try_harder

That is an awfully big car bill michelle09

Busy_Mee1

I love homegrown runner beans too - they taste completely different to shop bought ones. I am really impressed that you are going to grow your own .

Tropically

I can't get a runner bean to grow for the life of me. Any tips from your grandfather?

Karmacat

That's brilliant about your runner beans - and a good use of holiday time too.

Am also waiting for any knowledge passed down from such an experienced gardener.

michelle09

It was an insane bill, try harder. I think the first garage (£600) took us for a bit of a ride and I can't quite work out what all the costs were. The second garage had to replace three wheels, the t-leaf, the throttle, the battery and bits of the engine that had been water damaged. So I can see that one. Thankfully the car flew through it's MOT!

Good news, there was a grant through our HA for residents and we are getting free insulations in the walls/roof added this week. A follow on after February gave us the highest gas bill we'd had since living here (£55....)

Unfortunately Grandad is no longer around to give gardening advice. My Grandmother seemed to think he just sowed the beans and tied them to bamboo once they started sprouting. I've grown the seedlings inside first as our soil is not spectacularly fertile (insert long rant over previous owner's bamboo forest here) and wanted them to have a head start.

Just before my Grandmother moved last August, I dug up one of her blackberry canes and planted it in our back garden. (Grandad had taken it from the woods in the 1950s and then transplanted it when they moved in the 80s.) I was worried the snow had killed it off but there are a few green leaves poking out of the ground! I'm hoping to surprise my Grandmother around her birthday with home grown runner beans and the same blackberries she's been eating for decades.

End of my four day weekend today. Shame I can't do this every week, feel wonderfully refreshed! Yet another friend is pregnant though, so have rummaged through my Grandmother's wool stash while we were up for Mother's Day and will be knitting baby gifts like crazy until the summer.

Karmacat

Sorry about your grandfather michelle, and for any upset caused. Your days sound brilliant, I'm not surprised you want that 4 day weekend regularly!

CathT

That is quite a car bill. Mine cost about £200 to get through its MOT this month and DH's is going in on Thursday for its first MOT. Fingers are firmly crossed!

Ah 4 day weekends, don't happen often enough. 2 days just isn't enough to recover from a busy working week.