Cheery's country living adventure

EssexHebridean

A metre = ROUGHLY one big stride. I used to pace out rough distances on site visits using the "as far as I can step" method and was never far out - I used to add on a bit for luck but your legs are longer than mine!

Cheery_Daff

Not to worry - I got the tape measure out in the end One advantage of a DIY-riddled building site is you're never too far from a tape measure (although in this case I couldn't actually find the DIY tape measure and had to use my sewing one instead so that's not really a very coherent point I'm making! :rotfl: )

Anyway, upshot is there is ONE tree within 5 metres of the house (just) but I reckon it's nowhere near 10 metres high so we're all good :j

themadvix

Again, you have my sympathies with the insurance renewal... we're in the midst of the multicar policy renewal shenanigans and next month is the house insurance - I'm not sure which I hate more anymore! It sounds like you might be nearly there though?

Cheery_Daff

Not really - only did one comparison for the house insurance and didn't make any decisions, and haven't even started on the car insurance yet :eek:

For the sake of my own sanity I might set a time limit - 'cheapest price I can achieve in less than 2 hours of faffing, including signing up and cancelling the old one' :rotfl:

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

...For the sake of my own sanity I might set a time limit - 'cheapest price I can achieve in less than 2 hours of faffing, including signing up and cancelling the old one' :rotfl:

That sounds like a good plan Cheery - a very balanced approach!

EssexHebridean

I like the time limited approach - thing is, it's very easy to fall down a rabbit hole of spending hours to make what is in the end a proportionately small saving - without taking account that your own time also has a value attached.

And yay to the tree thing!

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, finally managed to get into the new forum! Kept trying to reset my password on the phone at work and it wasn't having it but it's worked fine now I'm at home. 
Eek, but what happened to the emojis?? Where's the :eek: and the :wall: and the :tea: ??? 
Hey ho. Off for a mooch about... Need to figure out how to turn off email notifications - had about 800 emails already from you waffly lot

rtandon27

Hey Cheery - go to notifications to stop the email s_pam! took me 15 minutes to find it!
I'm having withdrawal without the smiles and font formatting!
Also not so sure I like being part of the furniture! Humph!

Cheery_Daff

  😂😂 I'm part of the furniture too apparently!

Notifications turned off thank goodness, but it took a while to figure out where the bookmarks were... gosh I'll miss those favourite smileys 😭 Do the phone ones work I wonder?? 

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff said:

  😭 Do the phone ones work I wonder?? 

😭😭😭😭😭😭
Unfortunately not - can you tell I'm struggling with the change?  Hilarious given change management is a huge part of my working days!