Cheery's country living adventure

themadvix

Will let you know how we get on with the air-source research. You sound like you’ve had a super productive afternoon, good idea to prep all the veg - think I should do that sometimes (I.e. at the moment!).

Missymoo, mention of the café has the same effect on me - I’ll take a slice of Victoria sponge! 😋

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, I do love a nice Victoria sponge! I don't usually have cake in the cafe though - usually a bit of flapjack, or (like today) toast with peanut butter and either honey or banana. Their cake is GLORIOUS but I'm in there so often, and usually at breakfast time, that I try to eat there *instead* of a meal rather than *as well*...  

Enjoyed my tea in the end, and have also cleaned out the chicken run and written a blog post about hay making. Not much more of that in the immediate future - the weather forecast is currently showing RAIN for EVERY SINGLE DAY of my fortnight off Hopefully things will even out a bit, but we're certainly not due another heatwave for me to lie around in. 

Oh well. I might have to cut the hay anyway, and just accept it's not going to dry - I have a few tricks up my sleeve regarding drying racks but I was hoping not to have to spend time making drying racks on top of everything else! 

I suppose the rain will give me an incentive to stay inside and sort out the kitchen ceiling... 

Going to try for a little bit of focus tomorrow I think. I'm recording a video over Zoom with a friend at 9am tomorrow for a voluntary thing so it will be nice to get that out of the way. Mr Cheery and I might head to the cafe again... We're due thundery showers all day (sigh) but in between showers I might get out and cut a bit of hay, and inside make a start on measuring some of the wood and plasterboard for the ceiling. I've got a couple of letters I want to write too. 

Nothing much else planned for the rest of the week! Meeting a friend on Saturday for a cuppa but otherwise pottering, and maybe a bit of cycling too - I don't mind doing that in the rain if it's not tooooo torrential... Want to get a few meals in the freezer too. Got another veg box coming tomorrow night so need to get using things up! 

themadvix

Your plans all sound very productive Cheery, hope they go well! 

Is there a link to your blog somewhere?

PurpleFairy26

Cheery don’t know if you’ve sourced your plaster yet but we’re having some building work done and apparently since the world opened up again it’s the new toilet roll (insert blue head emoji🙃) so you may want to try and at least order it sooner rather than later. 

Cheery_Daff

Eek PF, thanks for the tip! I must confess that I've bought two lots of plaster before and had to throw them away because they went off by the time I got round to using them (oh dear, what an embarrassing thing to have to admit!) So I won't be buying any more until I am absolutely ready to get on with it - even if that then means I have to wait. Useful to know for planning purposes though! 

VIX, I've not got a link on here but I'll send you one 😊

Baileys_Babe

Cheery_Daff said:

VIX, I've not got a link on here but I'll send you one 😊

Please, could you send me a link as well, thanks

rtandon27

Two weeks off - that's just fabulous Cheery!  I'm envious of your pootling time!!!  Though I'm always amazed at the projects that sneak into your time off 🤣

Must admit I'm sooooooooooooooo looking forward to a week off at the beginning of September!  Last 'holiday' (staycation) was a week in early March just before lock-down!  Trying to convince OH to schedule in a couple of sight-seeing drives & hikes 😁 for that week!

Cheery_Daff

Evening all 😊

Well my holidays are running away with me already! 😮 Visitors on Saturday, then idle pottering on Sunday, LOTS of messing about for a voluntary thing on Monday, cafe yesterday and then a load of batch cooking.

Today we went up to another cafe and got a takeaway cuppa and sat by the canal, which was nice. Then nipped to get something from Freegle, and since then I've been batch cooking and FINALLY started a bit of kitchen DIY! 

VERY excited about this - we've been making do with a tiny temporary kitchen since last October (!) and I am thoroughly sick of it. Anyway, no excuses today - I'm not at work, it's bucketing down so no gardening, no visitors, no excuses 😂 We've cleared space, found the tools needed, and got one small experimental section fixed up and I am delighted. 

It's been a bit of a palaver, but the first bit always is, finding everything and working out how to do things. But I think we'll be able to get a bit of a production line going now to make things a bit more efficient. 

Here's my first bit - without the plasterboard - I've cut it, but can't find the rasp and need to shave a tiny bit off one side before I fit it. Will nip to B&Q tomorrow and then start gluing...

Cheery_Daff

As you can see, we're doing the most faffy thing imaginable, trying to have visible beams, which means attaching small battens to each side of all of those joists, cutting taffy bits of insulation, and loads of small bits of plasterboard which need to be glued to the battens and filler shoved round the edges. Not sure whose stupid idea this was 🙄😂

Jessy103

Oh lordy! I'm just imagining the achy arms! 😱
Good luck with it though cheery, it's going to look great!