Get a grip woman!

badmemory · 29 January 2023 at 2:14PM

They should be grateful you are recycling & not just throwing it in general rubbish. I know one of my neighbours has only ever put out their general rubbish bin. So no paper, no glass or plastic & no waste food/mown grass/cut hedges & they aren't composting either. That's with anywhere between 3 & 6 of them there depending how many children come back home. Can you tell they are not my favorite people?

Baileys_Babe · 29 January 2023 at 2:32PM

We only go to the bottle bank every few weeks or months so it builds up. As we reuse a lot of our jars it is mainly bottles we recycle. I would be unimpressed if anybody did pass judgment.

I had intended to go to the bottle bank this morning on our way back from martial arts, but I forgot to pick the glass up before we left and was frustrated with myself, I was pleased to see all the parking spaces were full as we drove past so we wouldn't have been able to stop anyway. So it worked out in the end 🤣

Suffolk_lass · 30 January 2023 at 8:50AM

To be fair to the chap with his two small crates of empty bottles who was just there to dispose of them, I do think it was my perception of the judgement and not really that he was judging me as I had not been for several months (maybe 3-5). I am so like you, @Bailey_Babe, I regularly intend taking them but forget to do so, hence 4 instead of two crates!Anyway, the boxes are empty.

The rest of the day was clearing out all of the seasoned logs from under the huge industrial warehouse sized shelving units we have on two walls of our cart lodge. It involved me on my knees, crouched under the shelf and shifting them forward, so I could then pick up 5-6 at a time and squeeze past DH's beloved bikes to transfer them to a wheelbarrow over by the door. He then wheeled them to the front door and helped me carry them in, and put them on the floor, so I could stack them in the inglenook fireplace, either side of the log-burner. Some time later and several barrow loads... All in there now and that is the last of the fallen ash tree logs we bought for £70 from the local farmer, maybe three years ago. Next I emptied a ton aggregate bag of unseasoned cherry tree logs onto the pallet, and then crawled under the shelf to stack them at the back. Then it was cup of tea and a sit down time for me while DH cut up the remaining branches that were blocking the front path. They are ready to go in next but I also rummaged under the table by the back door to retrieve the kindling sticks stacked in an old kitchen wall cupboard (not easy as my shoulders don't fit through the trestle leg of the table and the cupboard was sideways on. I recommended that cupboard be moved so some of the untreated pallet wood kindling that is a bit of a random stack can be moved into that. Talk about moving the deckchairs on the Titanic...

A good day of physical effort (well early afternoon really) and then a quick shower before taking dog to neighbour's for the evening and driving to a pub 20 miles away for a birthday BYO dinner. Our share came to just under £60 (+£20 for the dog-sitter) but it was lovely and is the only proper social thing we have done this month. The only other T&E (treats & entertainment) in my spreadsheet is for wine and ice cream from the SM, Oh, and the vodka I am using to make cassis.

I need to pay my friend now. I planned on £30 an hour plus rounding up, so maybe £200 for the tree.

Today we have an estate agent coming to give us an up-to-date valuation of our house. It's good to have a plan B and I have two at the moment. A lovely lottery dream listed farmhouse, and a do-er upper with a paddock. Unless ours is worth more than I think, they are both beyond our reach. That's it for today, along with reading, planning my veg garden (I need to do the bed rotation and growing what where plan), and moving more logs.

Have a good day all!

Watty1 · 31 January 2023 at 2:30PM

Make your own casiss

I need to upgrade my making...was talking with a girlfriend today about making toilet bombs!

Suffolk_lass · 2 February 2023 at 1:07PM

I've been quiet for a day or two but all OK here. I did submit electricity meter readings on 31st Jan and having omitted to do so at the end of December, received a bill for over £500 for 2 Dec to 31st Jan. This is normal for us with the aga blasting out heat 24x7 (but reducing our heating bill which is oil-based).

I responded to some repeat calling by a keen estate agent in the nearby town where we bought our DS's house and we had the branch manager here to give us an up-to-date market valuation. Now at least, if our dream property appears, we know what we have to bargain with. With the BOEBR rising today at 12.00 to 4% it may be out of date already...

Suffolk_lass · 5 February 2023 at 10:30AM

We went to look at a house yesterday on the edge of another village but down a much quieter road. In our opinion it is overpriced by £100-150k but that is the end of that. We are supposed to be going to see another tomorrow morning but the agent has not called back to confirm. It is to rule it out really as it is sitting in my head.

Suffolk_lass · 5 February 2023 at 12:02PM

The boiler needed a repair yesterday morning. It was the rubber bellows inside the expansion vessel that had perished and a re-pressurisation valve. Both sorted for £160. Thank goodness for emergency funds - although TBH with small post-Christmas CC bills there might be enough in the c/a to absorb it

Suffolk_lass · 7 February 2023 at 11:07AM

Gosh Tuesday already. We have been rather distracted, having obtained a market valuation from a local estate agent on our place last week. There is a place we really like but it might be unrealistic and beyond us. We went to see it yesterday and it is in good overall condition but with some small things we would change. More discussions to have...