Cheery's country living adventure
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Morning MSE chums.
Sun is shining again, and I have done a little workout in the living room, and the Happy Wheel (although the less said about that the better -monthly total has reduced to £27 now! )
Boots points stand at £15.34. I nearly ordered something, but didn't as I would have had to pay postage - I don't actually go in Boots very often and it's easy to spend points so I might just keep those ones for if we're out and about one day and want a sandwich or something.
Logged into superdrug, and apparently I have ZERO points, which seems a little unfair as I have actually spent SOMETHING in there, and they're 1 point per £1 spent. Grr. Hey ho.
I think that's it for loyalty cards! Waitrose and the Co-op of course, but they don't accrue points, so no point checking.
Still, that little exercise did gain the kitchen fund a few quid, and more once I've transferred the Tesco ones, and even more if I decide to cash in the Boots ones!
Wonder what little thing I can tackle next...
Nothing right now though - I'm still in my workout clothes and need to get changed and start work!
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Evening chums 😊
Not too much to report since this morning. Garage bill arrived, just an hour's labour as expected, so that can come from car maintenance fund.
Cheque for car tax arrived, slightly more than I expected at £12.50, so I'll throw that in the Post Office tomorrow, and once it's cashed add it to the kitchen fund.
Tried on my sports bra, and that doesn't fit so it'll have to be exchanged. Except they don't do exchanges - you have to return for a refund and then separately order a new one. Of course they don't send you a return label, so I've gone through the palaver of scanning the QR code and generating one to print (what exactly is the point of the QR code if it just takes you to a generic website where you have to enter all the order and address details anyway?!) Of course now it's generated to my email, so I'll have to send that to work email so I can print it (home computer won't attach to the printer, I'm deliberately avoiding having home emails on work laptop, and local post office don't have a label printing facility). Might save it til Monday so I don't have to accidentally look at work emails over the weekend
YAWN.
That's quite enough admin for one night i think!!
Off to plot a few things for the weekend. Starting with a cafe breakfast and a visit from the covid study lady tomorrow morning (yay, another £50!)8 -
You're doing amazingly well at hoovering up all the bits and bobs, and creating more bits and bobs. Your kitchen will be a triumph2023: the year I get to buy a car8
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OMG Cheery and all, thanks for highlighting the More card points coming to an end. We were like you Cheery - using it for years and doing nothing about the points accruing. DH just cashed in £60 towards the weekly shop!! Money we wouldn't have known we had!!
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Brilliant ElmoR!
So, I got up early and did a bit of scything in the field - trying to remove some of the old dry tussocky grass before too much of the new stuff starts growing through it.
Then we went to a different cafe for breakfast - we've popped in before, but never for breakfast, and never sat outside in the back field, which has such an expansive view! It's actually only 3 miles away, closer than our regular cafe, so the view isn't that different from the view from our house But they did a decent egg butty and there was a friendly dog, and it was nice to sit somewhere else (our favourite cafe's outside tables are in the car park - some trees and planters, but it's still a car park, so this was nicely field-like).
On the way home (only 3 miles, fortunately) the car felt a little... odd. Thankfully (??) it turned out to be a flat tyre, which I realised when we got home. Annoying, but the spare is on now, and Tyres on the Drive are booked to replace it between 8 and 10am tomorrow morning, so shouldn't cause too much disruption. I was having all kinds of visions of trying to get it to the garage, having to walk 2.5 miles home, and back to collect it, and not being able to go anywhere in the meantime...
Will try to up the 'searching for a new car' game - while I'd happily have none living in the city, I don't like only relying on one out here and would much rather have two!
Need a cuppa and another sit down now!7 -
I'm working on the grass too Cheery! I strimmed yesterday, and thankfully the mower started first time this morning. I've done most of what qualifies as 'lawn', and the grass is pretty thin and poor (it's also very bumpy thanks to moles/ants/walking on it when soggy/general neglect). I'm hoping this means that the wildflower bit will do well (I mowed round a couple of cowslips that have escaped!). I'm saving the section I didn't get round to cutting last year, and have raked and strimmed for a bit later (I need to sort out some molehills first), and finally the bit I didn't rake or strim. I'm not intending to keep quite so much of it long this year!7
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I've not even started on the 'lawn' yet 🙄 Bit in front of the house has barely grown anyway as it's just a couple of inches of soil on top of tarmac - that'll get a run over with the scythe in a couple of weeks.
Main garden area is a mess 😂 mole hills, bits of stone strewn about from various projects, some is long already and some is bare, and everywhere is lumpy 😂 The main bit I used to mow had the shelter built on top of it so hasn't grown at all yet so that's good 😂
I usually keep some of it long (supposedly as a 'meadow') and just strim the rest as and when it gets overwhelming, or if anyone wants to come and camp in the garden 😁
Managed to persuade a local ish friend out for tea and cake this afternoon so hopefully she'll be here shortly, and it'll save me having to feel too productive this afternoon.
I have done the banking though, and repotted a few runner beans, so some small progress is being made. Mr Cheery is making scones 😁
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Well we had a lovely afternoon comparing gardening and wildlife notes and plans with our local pal 😊 Scones were cheery too 😊
Spent most of the rest of the day outside and I'm now feeling quite windswept 😂
I shifted a few barrowloads of compost onto the veg beds, put some woodchip round the fruit trees, cleaned out the chicken house, did bit of weeding, and generally just pottered about a bit. Oh, and added another layer to my wall I'm rebuilding. It's not the prettiest, and probably not the strongest, but I'm taking the attitude of the local farmer which is just to get the damn things back up quicker than they fall down 😂 (or at least try to!)
Won't be a late one tonight I don't think...
Tomorrow, going to do a bit of scything first thing, then tyres people should be here 8-10am, then we'll sneak off for a cafe breakfast, and perhaps a bit of a longer excursion somewhere. Then I want to make some progress on the ceiling - I shifted some plasterboard today so I can get at the rest of the gaps so it would be good to get at least one piece of board up. We'll see.7 -
Great progress Cheery. I hadn't thought about putting wood chip around our new fruit trees - we need an alternative to the mulch mats we used as the jackdaws are stealing great chunks of those to make their nests 🐧 (couldn't find a jackdaw so here's a penguin) 😂
Fortune x
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😂😂 pesky jackdaws! I confess our woodland trees will be fending for themselves... but I thought I'd give the garden ones a helping hand. We've got five apple trees and two plums, and in three years our total harvest has been... ONE apple 😂😂 they need all the help they can get!7
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