Cheery's country living adventure

greent

Rockrevelations do online granite quotes - perhaps choose top 3 faves by look and see if you can find a price on there for ballpark figure? I haven't played with their site for a while, but fingers crossed it still works like that.

We have Nero assoluto (basically plain black, no sparkle) - super cheap (relatively speaking!)

Cheery_Daff

Thanks greent - just had a quick look and their online quote requires measurements and postcode etc so I'll do it tomorrow - they do have some of the same varieties though. Would still be useful to see ballpark figures for all of them in one place! I will still have a go tomorrow when I've got measurements to hand,thank you. 

We've split our choices into an A, B and C list, but made it clear that we'll be looking for the cheaper of the lot so they might as well just get all the quotes now 🤣

£22.70 on the happy wheel this evening, up to £83 for September now. Had a message about Mr Cheery's new bank card - apparently we should have had it by now. Will give it another couple of days and then reorder.

Cheery_Daff

New phone has arrived! 

Quite frankly I'm surprised 😂 I came home myself and several dumper trucks had to move out of the road for me to get past (council drainage work ongoing tol Christmas 🙄). Ten mins later there's a knock at the window, which i barely heard over builder noise. The council geezers wouldn't let the delivery driver past, so he had to run down the drive, went to neighbour's first - but neighbour is deaf and 90 so by the time he'd attracted his attention, he had to get up, doddery to the door, go back in to turn the TV off, tell half his life story, and finally let the driver leave to run down our (lengthy) drive to drop it off with me 😂 Poor guy looked exhausted 😂 I was impressed and very glad he persisted!

Building work continues. Mr Cheery noticed this morning that the kitchen units will sit wonky in relation to the floor tiles... Builder was starting off on the 'we can't do anything about that/you need a new floor' track, when I pointed out that the ROOM is wonky - they've lined a stud wall up with the ceiling, not the floor, and it means that the kitchen would have been either not flush to the wall, or not flush to the step it's meant to be sitting on (or not made at 90 degree angles, which affects our magic corner cupboards!)

Disaster averted - they're shifting the new stud wall (and probably cursing me, because it involves unclipping a load of electric wires from the ceiling beams). Also building up the walll under the stairs/above the cellar today and that's not straight either! Doesn't matter to me as there won't be anything attached to it, but in this case it leans outwards, so their stud wall won't fit properly.

Stupid wonky house! 🙄😂

Cheery_Daff

So. Been doing a lfew little late afternoon salary calculations. Still speculative at this point as payslip won't appear til Thursday, but I think pretty accurate.

I'll be going up an increment, and the whole scale has gone up 1.5%, but then I'm losing a day. Was originally banking on losing around £500 (not knowing exactly what the pay award was going to be).

I'll wait to work it out properly on Thursday, but it looks now like I'll only be losing about £373 a month. I say 'only' because that's not tiny, but better than expected. It means that we should still be able to put just over £200 a month to the kitchen fund/mortgage without changing the budget, although I will still do a budget reshuffle anyway.

This is great - bit of an extra boost for the kitchen fund, and more than I thought for the mortgage in the future. Hooray! 

As I say, confirmation on Thursday, but does put my mind at rest a little!

beanielou

Wow, what an awesome delivery driver 
Good news on the pay.

Baileys_Babe

Three cheers for the persistent delivery driver.

Good news that the pay loss will be less than you anticipated.

Cheery_Daff

Goodness me, what a day 🙄

Had a nice calm day yesterday, but then Mr Cheery took exception to something the builder did while he was out, and things escalated - the upshot being we both got barely any sleep and he left at 5am to spend the day in the car 🙄 I won't go into anymore detail but it's been a VERY long and trying day and I am thoroughly exhausted. However I THINK we have all ended up with a workable solution now, and I will be putting myself forwards for some kind of negotiation award 🙄😂

Tried to go out for tea tonight but our relatively new cheerful evening cafe which has been open till 9pm and is in the middle of us and the city so perfect for meeting pals... has decided to shut at 5 😕 so we ended up in a touristy market town which apparently couldn't furnish us with a pizza, and by the time we got round to finding a pub one were serving food!

So we had crisps in a beer garden, then a cheese butty from the cooling the car 😂 classy 😂

Delighted to report that all hacked money has been returned, and that my new phone is up and running. I'm currently attempting some automatic transfer thing that should, I think, transfer allapps etc to the new phone, but we'll see if that works...

Right, best go to sleep...

Cheery_Daff

Sorry, won't let me edit - NONE of the pubs were serving food, and the cheese butty was from the co op 🙄😂

rtandon27

Cheery - we too have been know to have cheese sarnies from the co-op in the car! Sometimes with a couple of boiled eggs and a pot of fruit to round out the gourmet dinner! - LOL

themadvix

I think our highlight was a quiche from Tesco, carefully broken into pieces by Mr TMV and consumed without cutlery in the car in Tesco’s car park while it was charging!! 

Glad phone and money sorted Cheery, sorry to hear about the difficult day but well done for getting it sorted.