Finally Debt Free After 34 Years, But Still Need to Live Frugally

HairyHandofDartmoor

Our fences are finished 🎉🎉🎉. Our builder came back at 8am this morning and finished the short side fence and did a little right angle bit on the long side just to give us privacy from the back lane. I'm so pleased with it that I want to move into the garden 😁. I absolutely love it 😀. The garden is completely private now at the back and on the short side. The right angle bit of fence on the other side goes up to a climbing plant which screens us a bit, so it feels a lot more private on that side too. I get a nice surprise every time I go into the kitchen and see it 😀. I can't wait for the the nice weather to come back so we can use our garden.

I'm slightly uncomfortable about spending hundreds of pounds 😱, but on the other hand it is well worth the money for the transformation of our space and the lovely workmanship 🙂. The fence posts are really thick and chunky and the overlapping wooden strips on the fence itself are really sturdy too and well made. We could never have done such a good job ourselves.

In non fence related news school was good and I dodged the rain again. I drew two chalk houses 🏠, two garages, two restaurants and a road for two of my children to play in, so I think I should get a new job as an architect 🤣. It was surprisingly tiring but the children had great fun playing in them and parking their little vehicles in the garages 🏍🚗

I'm relaxing now with DS1 and DH while it's chucking it down with rain outside. DS1 seems to be enjoying his birthday 🙂.

I hope everyone is having a good Friday.

Chrystal

The usual comment when I was young when someone was asked their age was 'as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth'

HairyHandofDartmoor

Chrystal said:

The usual comment when I was young when someone was asked their age was 'as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth'

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Seasidegal58

Great news that your fences are up!  I wouldn't be uncomfortable about the cost - they're obviously going to give you a great deal of pleasure In enhancing the look of your garden and giving you much needed privacy. I think you wrote that the funding has come from the money you would have spent on travelling to family, etc this summer so it was already earmarked and would have been spent.  

Glad DS1 is having an enjoyable birthday. 😀

jwil

Great news about the fences!  Happy Birthday to DS1.

beanielou

Great news on the fences 
Happy birthday to your DS1 

milann

The fences sound amazing - I know what you mean when you say you keep getting surprised when you look out at them - I still keep looking at mine smiling- which don’t sound half as plush as yours....
I remember one of my little 6 year old charges asking how old I was when it was my birthday- I said ‘21’ - he laughed and weighed me up and asked me ‘are you sure’ I laughed and said ‘what do you think’ he thought about it long and hard.  I said ‘ you shouldn’t ask a lady her age’ he went off laughing.....came back later and said ‘wellllllll....miss.....I’ve been working it out.....have you had a telegram from the Queen yet?’
Cheeky monkey got an extra piece of birthday cake (it was in the days when we took cake in to share on our birthdays - can’t do that now at my school) He’s in year 5 now and still as cheeky - in a lovely way 😂😂

Willowtree222

Your responses to the fence make it really worth while. You love them and it gives you the privacy you want do priceless in that respect x

beanielou

Hope that you have had a good day.

Sun_Addict

Pleased to read the fences are done and that you're so happy with them - money well spent and will last for years.