Get a grip woman!

Suffolk_lass

Excellent news jimmy!

DH has continued to use the dining room table ( 🙄) to assemble frames with foundation wax for the bee hives so I am using this as my excuse not to start painting again yet (one indoor job at a time). That said, the door and drawer fronts are off ready.

The cat is obviously jealous as she has taken up residence close to DH and started chewing on the thin strips that get removed from the securing bars. Butter would not melt as I sit here with her curled up on my messy desk. She loves a bit of paper to curl up on

Suffolk_lass

We have heating! The engineer phoned because he was working next door but one (the other side to last time) and asked if he could pop in and check the pump again - he had a spare one on the van and that was the problem. When I described the humming wheezy noise with the bubbling gurgling noise we concluded it was the circuitry associated with the circulatory pump. £130 all in. Great! After three weeks with only a brief interlude of heating it feels really good (of course DH was too hot and turned the thermostat right down so that when I came off the zoom call after nearly 2.5 hours the lounge was too cold for me so I went to bed!

The other thing was Stealth cat. She decided the Brood box and frames for the beehive were the perfect place to sit - and put her feet through several sheets of wax foundation lovingly installed in the frames that morning so DH had to repair, and then he did actually put them all away (of course if he had done that in the first place....) I might get the dining table back to be able to resume kitchen panel prep and painting today

Suffolk_lass

I meant to say I won another £25 on PB this month - so that is £75 in the six drawers it has been in for. It now equals the rather pathetic rate on the cash ISA I took out at the same time, both were for £10k - that won't be added until late June (I timed the purchase of PB really badly!).

Today (I am assured) is the day for doing the tax return. Mutley will be in residence and I need to be somewhere else.

Karmacat

That's great news on the PB good luck to your OH with the tax return.

Suffolk_lass

Hrmph! DH has entered extreme pathological task avoidance phase. So far he has dusted (!), vacuumed, rearranged the furniture, moved bureau and desk chair upstairs, and small ex hotel bedroom chair downstairs! Now he has a separate study to me. About as far from the router as it is possible to get in this house. I predict a purchase of a mains wi-fi plug-in extender thingy might be imminent

Karmacat

      this is a dangerous time of year to be that avoidant 

Suffolk_lass

Oh @Karmacat it is on the verge of turning from an art form into some sort of religious devotion ceremony. Every year is the same. He prevaricates and avoids it until really late and then gets really irritated when I remind him because apparently it isn't late enough to start yet!

Debsnewbudget

He would really hate it if you told him he could get it completed in May 😂. Its only the payment that needs doing in January.  Mind you, this year I prevaricated until November😄
Will not pay them until as late as possible though.  

Karmacat

Good luck SL!  Now that I know quite how simple my SA is, I might well do what Debs describes, and get them done in May.  That will also give me a chance to make sure I'm doing the right thing with accounts that I open through the year.

themadvix

I find it’s so much easier to do in May when everything is fresh in my mind. Has the added benefit for me that I can put money leftover from what I put aside for tax straight into my pension/Lisa, thereby gaining time in market. I don’t normally pay up until the end of Jan but this year I did it before Christmas - was fed up with the system saying my payment was overdue (which it wasn’t because they gave us longer to pay this year because of the pandemic).