Cheery's country living adventure

themadvix

Oh Cheery, you sounded most vexed and quite unlike you. I hope things improved! X

Fortune_Smiles

Remember to look after Cheery 🤗

Fortune x

beanielou

Take care

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all - I got over myself eventually and came home 🙄 Craft project finished, and presents all wrapped, and I am congratulating my past self for making a load of present bags at Christmas - wrapping is SO flippin easy! I LOVE it. I don't mind wrapping presents, but messing about with all that paper just so Mr Cheery can take it off tomorrow seems wasteful, and present bags are so much quicker! Definitely going to increase my stash this year.

Right, bed.

hb2

Cheery, I'm glad that you have got things done and feel better.

themadvix

 Glad you felt better Cheery! 

I totally agree about present bags - so easy! I only have two which were actually drawstring bags that bedding came in but they make it so quick to wrap anything, and no waste whatsoever! Brilliant!

Cheery_Daff

It's been an excellent way of using up a load of fabric I've been cutting round for years waiting for the right project. I did a couple of drawstring ones but they were a bit of a faff - instead I've just been sewing ribbon to the sides (although then they're slightly more of a faff yo tie). More experimenting needed I think!

Cheery_Daff

Well we have had a nice birthday for Mr Cheery 😊 Presents, breakfast in the cafe (of course), then this afternoon a vet trip 🙄 Not what you'd think of as a birthday activity 😂 but it was a cheerful enough drive (it's about 3 hours round trip) and Bessie almost certainly has egg yolk peritonitis again, which means her implant is wearing off - but we've caught it very early so she's had another implant and antibiotics and it looks like we'll have her around for a good while yet (fingers crossed). 

Mr Cheery reckons saving a chicken is a hood birthday present 😂 I should hope so at £284! 😮

I've also darned a hand knitted pair of socks, and painted the first coat on a bit more of the ceiling.

Oh! And in exciting kitchen news, the builder emailed to say he's having a week's holiday, then starting with us on Mon 23rd 😮 I was definitely expecting him to put it off again, but apparently when he said 'later in August'that's actually what he meant. So we have a nice deadline for all our little tasks and decisions. Planning a trip to the carpet shop tomorrow - some flooring decisions to make...

I also checked the credit card statement - I have indeed set up a direct debit, and have apparently earned £9.60 cash back (no idea whether I have to claim, or whether I get it at the end of the year or what). Cash back is 0.5% (I think) but is 1% on everything if I spend over £3000 in the year (unlikely). I'm clearly getting some kind of introductory cashback amount too as there's no way I've spent enough for £9.60 to be even 0.5%.

So some promising news, but I still need to read the T&Cs properly.

Shame you can't use American Express at the vets - I reckon I'd easily hit £3k there in a year 🙄😂😂

Karmacat

My word, Cheery, I'm just back online after spending a few days being wobbly (literally!  holding on to the walls first thing in the morning!) and you've been in the wars quite a bit yourself, I'm sorry to see.  Mr Cheery's birthday sounds lovely, actually, so that's good.  Present bags also sound like a good idea, and heaven knows I have enough fabric.

Are you sure you won't hit £3k on the cc?  Flooring, plumbing bits, building bits, petrol, food, it might do.  But not if it gives you added stress, it's not worth it.  

Enjoy your lovely new-to-you bed  

Cheery_Daff

Sorry to hear you've been wobbly KC, how distressing. Hope it's passing quickly! 

You're right of course. I was thinking just about normal spending (food and fuel mostly) - we can't pay for the actual kitchen or builder with it as they're just small businesses and only do bank transfers, but yes, we're going to need a couple of appliances, and flooring of some kind (although not much, hoping to rescue those ridiculous tiles downstairs!) Likely to still be other stuff though - depends if builder ends up buying stuff or we buy stuff ourselves. 

Definitely worth doing for appliances and carpets though, I'd not even thought of that so thank you!