Cheery's country living adventure

StrawberrySuze

I love my dishwasher and wish I'd got a full size one, I have the slimline one going every day just for me 😯 🤣

Baileys_Babe

StrawberrySuze said:

I love my dishwasher and wish I'd got a full size one, I have the slimline one going every day just for me 😯 🤣

At 1 point we only had space a slimline dishwasher, there were 7 of us, 4 adults all working fun hours and 3 children, it was on constantly, but did mean we always had clean dishes, No coming home after a horrendous day needing to wash up before dinner could start to be cooked.

themadvix

Thirded (or fourthed) about a dishwasher. We only have a slimline one for two of us which drives me mad (no space for a full sized one) but not as mad as those times we’ve had to cope without. Doing a lot of cooking from scratch/jam making/baking I wouldn’t be without one - there’s only so much time I can spend in the kitchen! It massively frees up time for other things.

South_coast

I wish you'd all stop talking about dishwashers 😥 I really, really, really want one, but have to get rid of this pesky mortgage first!

Cheery_Daff

Not even entirely sure why we're all talking about dishwashers I've never had one (except very briefly when we moved here, which we never used and quickly got rid of), and I never plan to have one! Yes, occasionally we need to wash up more often but I'm afraid it's never going to lead to a dishwasher here! It seems we are wildly outnumbered, and I am very pleased that you all love them so much though

A productive day today, great improvement on yesterday's rubbish one! Experimented with doing two work sessions with a big gap in the middle and it worked really well. Did 4 hours this morning, stopped at 12, had lunch, spent a couple of hours working on the chicken run extension, cleaned all the manky food bowls, then started again at 3, feeling refreshed Didn't finish til 7.30 so it was still a long day... but I've got an important deadline tomorrow so not too bad.

Not sure how I'm going to work tomorrow - got a counselling session at 5.30 so I'll need to stop at 5. Might do 8-12, then 2-5? Still a bit of a  longer break in the middle which is good.

Thursday is meetings solidly from 11-4 - maybe I'll just work the bit in the middle and have the outside bits off

Cheery_Daff

Done a quick reconciliation of banks and YNAB tonight, nowt to report. Dosh has arrived from savings account, so if the invoice for the trees ever turns up I can pay it straight away. 

Oh, and the LPG was finally delivered today! Honestly, I will NEVER again take a marina [EDIT - obviously I mean MAINS] gas supply for granted I mean, it's fine, but I do sometimes hark back to those heady days of not having to go out into a field to check it's ok to put the heating on

(I jest, of course - the tank and guage is indeed in a field, but I only check every few weeks and they check remotely too and deliver when needed. I just don't always trust that they will!)

I'd happily have a mains sewage supply too Touch wood nothing much has gone wrong so far (except us having to unblock the overspill pipe ourselves with a massive length of rods, of course...) but you never know... I should get the tank pumped at some point, pretty sure you're meant to do it once a year and we've not done it at all in 3 years...

Karmacat

Wow.  Your issues are different out there in Ruralshire, that's for sure.  Really amazing.  Glad today went well too  

Cheery_Daff

Yep, it's certainly been a steep learning curve!

This morning is annoying so far. We've sent final costs for final approval for our funding bid - but now a colleague has noticed her bit is wrong. She's also made loads of what I' sure are excellent changes to the proposal itself - but has forgotten to attach it to the email, so I can't work on it this morning.

And my emails have been playing up these last few days, so I rang IT, who said I shouldn't be using the desktop version of Outlook (since when??) as it won't update properly if I'm not connected to the VPN. Does that mean I should be connected to the VPN all the time, I asked, because I thought we'd been told not to do that? No, because then you're stopping people in finance from accessing records etc.

So basically I just can't use desktop outlook at all now. Didn't seem to be any acknowledgement that this was a new thing, just annoyed at me for not using the web version before. Oh, but I have to use the desktop version if I want to attach anything from a particular set of university drives, because you can't do that from the web version.

For goodness sake!!

Deep breaths. I've not had a cup of tea yet (meant to wait an hour after taking my iron tablet) but I think now might be the time!

Greying_Pilgrim

*****......Passes Cheery a very BIG cup of tea..... with a nice biscuit on the saucer....... retreats out of post........******

Greying X

Karmacat

**readies another cup of tea for Cheery, raising my own in sympathy**