Cheery's country living adventure

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Beanie, you too 😊

All relatively quiet here. Mr Cheery has taken himself off for today, and the only other person here is the plasterer, who is a thoroughly nice chap. There's a bit of drilling and banging but not much, and so I'm sat trying to get on with some work (and failing miserably - marking long pieces of work my concentration often wanders which means I end up having to read the same thing two or three times - not a good use of time!)

Promised myself at the end of this one I'll take the chickens some dandelions, and have my lunch out in the sunshine. A nice incentive!

EssexHebridean

Oh goodness, what palavers you've been having! Glad to hear that MrCheery has managed to get his appointment sorted though. And yes - living in the middle of nowhere without a landline is it absolutely VITAL for you to have a working mobile so well done for doing the sensible thing and just getting it sorted! 

Enjoy the sunshine! 

hb2

Cheery, I'm very impressed with the lengths your delivery guy went to in order to get the new phone to you. Sometimes ours can't even be bothered to come in the front door and downstairs to our flat, preferring to leave parcels on the front doorstep! In all fairness, the usual people are very good (despite the reputation of Hermes, our guy is great) - I think it is mostly replacement drivers and suchlike.

Living in the country clearly suits you. I'm afraid I'm faaaar too lazy and prefer to visit the green places then come back to my comfy flat. I'm glad that the workmen are getting along well. And that Mr Cheery has his GP appointment.

Cheery_Daff

EssexHebridean said:

Oh goodness, what palavers you've been having! Glad to hear that MrCheery has managed to get his appointment sorted though. And yes - living in the middle of nowhere without a landline is it absolutely VITAL for you to have a working mobile so well done for doing the sensible thing and just getting it sorted! 

Enjoy the sunshine! 

Palavers is certainly a very apt word for this week 🙄🙄😂 sounds like it's been pretty palaver-ish at your end too! 

Hb, I was impressed with the delivery driver too! It wasn't anyone I've seen before. Our regular Hermes woman is pretty good, and it's pretty easy to just leave stuff in the porch here so they often do, thankfully. I had specifically paid for that day though. 

Anyway. A pretty good day here, enough work done, lunch in the sunshine, ended the day in the cafe, had a relatively wholesome tea, all good. Sent an email to Screwfix telling them about some good service we had last week 😁 I'm trying to be a bit more generous with praising people who are helpful etc, makes the world a nicer place don't you think? This bloke didn't do anything out of the ordinary, but was polite, attentive and helpful, exactly the kind of person I'd want working in my shop if I had one. So I thought his bosses should know!

Not much to report. Made £15 other happy wheel, so standing at £116 for September.

Not started Mr Cheery yet. Everything I've read advises using a different Internet connection. Of course I've used both WiFi and mobile for my stuff already, and Mr Cheery's phone is so ancient it doesn't even have Internet, let alone the ability to toggle to it 😂😂 thinking of getting a cheap phone contract and using that! Would a dongle suffice?? I confess I've never been entirely sure what one is 😂😂 

Cheery_Daff

Evening MSE chums 😊 

Decided to risk doing Mr Cheery's happy wheel sign ups using the house WiFi. After much faffing, couldn't even sign up to the first bookie because the website froze after the first half of the postcode, four times in a row 🙄 Most annoying. Gave up, and instead switched to doing some of my own spinning, and made the grand total of £2.26 😂 also made 43p on Prolific earlier - it slowly adds up!

Still no sign of anything from Populus... 🙄

Will make a concerted effort to get to £10 on Prolific though by the end of the month. I think I'm up to about £2.80 so need to pull my finger out! 

Tomorrow I'll try Mr Cheery's sign up again, with a different bookie this time. I'm only doing ones that I'm already gubbed from first of all, just in case. Hopeful we'll get a few hundred quid out of the initial sign ups at any rate, but he certainly won't be continuing long term - he is far too disorganised, and I don't have the time or inclination to spend arranging both. Lost out on stuff I could have been doing for mine with all the time I spent on his this evening 🙄

Anyway. Plasterer has been here on his own today, he's a cheery chap and we had a nice chat 😊 more boards are on upstairs now. He's going to focus on the whole of upstairs before moving downstairs which means the actual kitchen installation might be further away - but I do suspect he's been told to do that cos the kitchen itself is nowhere near ready 😂 I think the boarding is what will take most time, and upstairs the ceiling, 1 short wall and 1.5 long walls are done now (so only a short wall and half a long one to do, although none are straight and he still has to go round a window and a couple of alcoves). I suspect the plastering itself won't take long...

Anyway, it'll go as fast as it goes. 

Going to the office tomorrow! Only because I have to go to the dentist 😂 we're both going, so helpfully Mr Cheery will take me from work to dentist and back. Just a check up so not expensive - must remember to take a toothbrush to work!

EssexHebridean

Hope your dentist visit goes well Cheery! Yes - it does sound possible that the plasterer has been asked to buy them some time on the kitchen doesn't it!

Cheery_Daff

Dentist was ok, although I need a filling 🙄 Sent me to hygienist to remove old filling, replace if straightforward, and put temporary one in if not - I think he was the only dentist in, so passing more straightforward stuff to her. Sadly the anaesthetic didn't take properly, so she had to retrieve him anyway - and he did a good job of getting the old filling out without hurting, and then she put a temporary one in. All took a while but alright, face is a bit sore now though 🙄

Plasterer here on his own again today I think, and he's finished the long wall in the bedroom. Sadly he's put the hole for the blinking wall light too high up, after we had a specific conversation about it yesterday 🙄 He might have tried them to match to the ones on the other side - which the builder did really high up without checking,and which we've already said need moving down 🙄

God I hate having these conversations asking people to redo stuff, but better now than after the plastering is done I suppose 🙄 Should just be cutting an extra hole in the plasterboard at this point 🙄

I actually saw some colleagues today! In real life and everything!! Shocking 😮

beanielou

Eek to the dentist. 

Cheery_Daff

Oh! And I forgot - I inadvertently acquired tea and a flapjack from the work cafe without paying! 😮

To be fair, I TRIED to pay 🙄 I was on my way to a meeting, went to the till - and they don't take cash any more 🙄 Fine, except my replacement bank card hasn't turned up yet. I had the credit card, but it's Amex and they don't take it. You can pay with a staff card, but mine only had 59p on it 🙄

The guy had to get someone else, who explained in detail how I had to add money to my staff card, which I did start trying to do (in a massive rush) but someone else came over and told her to just let me go 😊 I did promise to go back and pay later, thinking I'd add money to my staff card online - but that will only take a normal debit card as well, not Amex or PayPal or anything, so I had to slink out owing £2.45... 😮😂

I'm wholesale blaming them- I did have plenty of cash on me but they wouldn't take it!

Did remind me that new bank card hasn't turned up though - I ordered it last Monday so plenty of time... Will ring them tomorrow...

Karmacat

Good grief to the cafe at work - so the cashless society has a few hiccups along the way, hey, who'd have guessed 

There's progress, though!  Plastering, dental work, seeing colleagues - none of it is done and dusted, but progress on all fronts - got to take your wins where you can find them