Cheery's country living adventure

Baileys_Babe

Enjoy your visit to your sisters.

I am doing a two pronged approach for my wardrobe. Step one is to buy (in charity shops of course) a few items so I have enough clothes to wear that fit. Step two is to gradually lose weight, but I want to do this in a slow and hopefully permanent way. 

themadvix

Ooh, have a lovely time with the puppy (and your sister, of course!) and away from the building site!

Karmacat

Yay puppy 🐶 have a lovely time at your sister's.

JGB1955

Mrs_Money_Penny said:

I live not fat from Bath there is loads to see and do. The weather is warm at the moment and the sun is shining xx

Sorry to deflect from the OP - but have to say that booking the Cross Bath Cross Bath | Thermae Bath Spa is absolutely spectacular.  We went there for my daughters hen party - a couple of bottles of wine and we were totally amazed!  Been there  a couple of times later (to the Britain' s original thermal spa, in Bath | Thermae Bath Spa) - can't recommend it enough!

Chiglepig

I'm having the same clothes dilemma for the new teaching term - I can't keep wearing my dog-walking trousers! And in the last two weeks, so many things have worn out - two cotton blouses that wore so thin and brittle from washing, they just tore, three pairs of knickers, another two short sheeved tops also developed unfixable holes, and a pair of already sewn-up jeans reached the end of the road. I've got loads of things that haven't been worn since first lockdown that now don't fit, so I'm hoping after a month or so of working in a university where everything is uphill, and not having my own fridge so close, I'll start to be able to squeeze into them again!

Have fun with the puppy.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks all!

JGB, I've never yet made it to a spa, but maybe one day, thanks for the recommendation! 

Glad it's not just me with the clothes 🙄 and yes, maybe once we're back in the office, I'll institute a ban on going in the lift like I did before (I'm on the second floor), and there will be a bit more routine... and a kitchen, which I have high hopes of solving ALL of my exercise and food related complaints 😂😂

Puppy was utterly adorable 😍😍 and we had a lovely afternoon sitting in the garden with my sister and her husband, and then her kids when they got home from school. Most jolly indeed.

Starting to look like progress at home, although clearly it won't be done in the original estimate of 3-4 weeks (we're at the end of week 3 😂 ). But one of the bedroom walls is boarded, and half the ceiling, and they've covered over the massive gap where the chimney was, and I'm starting to be able to visualise it as a room. It's more obvious now where lights etc will go (the wires are stickout out of the boards in the right places, rather than just hanging down).

Downstairs still looks like a shell, but again all the first fix electrics are done, and they've put in the ceiling bolts now, which means I can theoretically get on with finishing the ceiling (although I didn't check whether there's anything left to do on those so maybe I'll leave it til next weekend...)

Today we're planning a cafe trip, I think we've only been once this week! Or maybe twice... and I need to cut some more hay and start getting it off the field. Got some friends coming tomorrow so also need to do something about the weather 😂😂

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums 😊

I've had a nice day today, although not exactly productive. Cafe this morning, and a quick trip to a couple of charity shops, and to stock up for tomorrow's visitors... who, it turns out, are coming next Sunday, not this Sunday (which Mr Cheery says he knew, but didn't want to contradict me as I seemed so certain 🤨🙄) Hey ho.

Just realised I booked us a little tour round an eco home not too far away for next Sunday - but of course now we'll have to cancel as our visitors will be here! Not cancelling visitors for a one hour tour that they'll probably run again at some point. But slightly disappointing.

Spent the afternoon reading, which was nice, although I did have a constant sense that I should be doing something more useful... 🙄 Went for a walk round the park in the evening, and then an hour of scything. I really must get the whole field done this year - I've started with the bit that didn't get done last year and it is all tough and full of giant tufts and really hard going. Once I'm through with this bit, I'm hoping the rest of the field will feel like a breeze in comparison! 

Nowt much financial to report. Put some more food and diesel on the cashback credit card, so I reckon I'll definitely hit whatever amount was required for higher rate of cashback (only 1%, don't get excited 😂). Realised I actually have no idea HOW the cashback is paid! Into a nominated bank account?? Taken off the end of the balance? monthly? Annually? Feels like something I should know! A job for tomorrow perhaps...

Also going to make final decision on appliances tomorrow, so hopefully they can go on the credit card too.

Right Mr Cheery has found us some kind of film to watch, so it's time to curl up on the sofa. Very much enjoying this three day weekend malarkey 😁😁😁😁

Cheery_Daff

Hmm, woke up to a text supposedly from the bank saying I'd had a payment declined at some European car hire company at 3am 🙄 searched for the number, seems a few other people have had this but not many, and about 5 said it was genuine. 

Replied no (to say it wasn't me) but am going to ring them myself when they open at 9am to check.

Oddly enough I checked the bank account yesterday, no suspicious transactions but it did say the available balance was about £1000 less than what it said was in the account - seemed a high amount for lots of little transactions and I couldn't think of anything big that was waiting to go through (but I spend money like water at the minute so figured I'd just remember what it was when it went through).

Hmm. Going to get up and do some reconciliation, curse myself for not keeping track of YNAB better this week, and see if i can remember my last few actual transactions before ringing the bank 🙄

themadvix

Oh no Cherry, I hope you manage to get that sorted quickly. In my experience banks are very good though at sorting things like that out.

 Our credit card cash back is paid annually as a credit on the card in January.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Vix. Yes the bank have picked up a few things that actually were me in the past 😂 but have texted from a different number which is what made me a bit suspicious!

Of course the one thing that £1000 ish could be is the payment to the credit card... but I thought I'd set that to go out later in the month, after payday.