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Seasidegal58

Glad to see you back redo!👍. Good news as well on the house front!

The library app sounds a really sound idea!  I didn't know there was such a thing!

redofromstart

I think you just need to check your county libraries website as they all seem to use different Apps.  Simple download, library card number and library PIN for me which gives me free access to a good range of magazines.  Some free e-books and audio books too, but they don't work with kindle.  Good Food/Gardeners World/Ideal Homes/Country Living etc.

EssexHebridean

Ours has gone from RB Digital to OverDrive/Libby - but assumes that you have a PIN number for your library card - mine dates to 2003 and I don’t think they’d even thought of PIN numbers then! 😂 I might try to pop in to the town centre library tomorrow to see if they can help. 

redofromstart

I just had to ring the main branch to get mine re-issued and request one for Mr Redo @EssexHebridean.  Ours has gone to Libby too.

Mildly irritated about the forced change of energy provider.  'Don't cancel the DD, it will be transferred, as will your balance' said the new provider, MSE et al.   Email today to say they haven't managed to transfer the DD so you need to set up a new one and they are 'trying' to work with the administrators to move the balance and any DDs that I have paid.  Worrying wording.  I hope they mean that if it doesn't transfer I will get a direct refund from the original company. 

Kindle have an opt in offer for spend £15 on kindle, get £5 free, so  might just crack and buy some of my favourite Diana Wynne Jones.  I have them all in hard form but I can't see to read them.

Hurrah for Friday after yet another busy work week.

Sun_Addict

I haven’t been to a library since they had those tiny cards that they put the card out of the book into then stamped the book with the date it should be returned or you would face a fine. I feel ancient now 🤣🤣

EssexHebridean

The smart money on the energy board reckons on that contact being worded badly Redo - and yes, exactly that, one way or another the money will make its way back to you, it just might be by cheque rather than by straight transfer to your new provider. 

redofromstart

Thanks EH, that sounds a little more re-assuring. I don't mind cheques now that I can pay them in via my phone.

Busy day for me, and finished later than usual.  Hurrah for HM ping curry from the freezer.  Mr Redo filled the green waste bins so hopefully they go tomorrow. 

Lots of progress over the weekend on the transformation of the back hall to utility room.  We are trying to re-purpose stuff we have, so the offcuts of worktop from the kitchen have been carefully cut into sections and re-glued.  The shelves for the boot cupboard are the offcuts of skirting board from the log cabin.  Have an inspiration picture for the sink/vanity unit for cloakroom which he is happy to make for me.  Apparently there is a spare sink knocking about somewhere.

I also did a lot of clearing in our bedroom, so that we can crack on with plastering and plumbing the new bathroom over Christmas.  We even shortened the curtains which had only been pinned up for 14 years or so.

Need to:
Tweak the stupidmarket order
Think about checking some prices for things on the festivity list
Resist buying jumpers (my winter favourites are on offer...)

EssexHebridean

The curtain thing made me chuckle Redo - that's exactly the sort of "temporary fix" that could end up being permanent in our house too!  

You're making great strides with your place by the sound of it - well done!  And you have also reminded me that we have a spare slab of the silestone worktop from the kitchen sitting in the garage that just *might* do to make the new shelf above the second freezer in the porch when the work is done there....would require cutting down though and I have no idea how easy a handyman type person might find that....Hmmmm.

redofromstart

Well yet again ERNIE did not ring me.  Ho hum.  Onwards and upward.

I have not bought any jumpers, nor particularly any presents. 

Sun_Addict

Well it’s good news on the jumper front if nothing else 😆 Good to hear from you though.