Cheery's country living adventure

Karmacat

Yay to free kindling!

I read Cold Comfort Farm a lifetime ago - but the tv version, with Kate Beckinsale in a very early role, and Eileen Atkins, aged up, is brilliant. I think you and Mr Cheery count as being Kate Beckinsale type characters, though hopefully without the marriage plotting, though its all very jolly really

Cheery_Daff

Well clearly this is something I should investigate Thank you for the suggestion! :j

£20.47 from Prolific has landed with circle - just need to pop in and retrieve it now!

FINALLY got round to doing something about my misplaced Nectar card. For some reason I thought I had no hope as it's got the wrong address on, but the woman on the till in the shop today told me to just ring them and explain :rotfl: Not entirely sure why I was making it so complicated :rotfl:

Anyway, very glad I didn't just take out a new one. I'd forgotten the old one is linked to our ebay account and has somehow amassed £27 worth of points while I wasn't looking!! :eek: :money: :rotfl:

Up to £98 on MB now :money:

rtandon27

:wave: How's the MB going Cheery? I'm amazed that you've made almost 100! - I've never been able to get my head round the instructions!

Cheery_Daff

Hey RT :hello:

I'm up to £174 now! :money: VERY much recommend the Team Profit website rather than trying to get head round MSE forum instructions :eek: Everything is VERY simply explained through video guides that hold your hand through each step Just what I need I'm still working my way through all their sign up offers so plenty still to do on there :j

Not much to report here. Had my mum to visit this weekend but it wasn't a very spendy one. We went for a bike ride on Saturday - stupidly I forgot my resident parking permit but the nice man let me write my permit number (which I remembered) on a post it so we parked for free :money: (well, included with my annual fee anyway :rotfl: )

Forgot my purse (which was where my permit was) so mum bought a cuppa :rotfl:

Sunday we had tea and cake in a cafe (about £12 for the three of us) then me and mum went on a little miniature steam train ride - they were doing a Mother's Day Special so mum got her ticket free :money: Then we had another cup of tea while walking alongside a lake, most jolly. So all in all I spent less than £25 on all that, not too bad.

Big car is misbehaving now, sigh. Just dropped all its power the other night when Mr Cheery was driving :eek: Sadly I was in a pub with no phone reception and he couldn't find the breakdown details in the car :eek: Fortunately managed to limp it all the way home, we tested it the next day (planning to ring the breakdown people) but of course it was working perfectly :rotfl: Took it to the garage - they ran a diagnostic test thing (which cost us £25) and told us which part to buy on 3bay :rotfl: Done that, another £20, should be arriving Wednesday with any luck. Yawn.

Once that's fixed we'll sort out the small one, which has already been checked by one garage but we still think there's something wrong with it despite them saying there isn't as it's making an awful racket. But one at a time!

Need to sort out YNAB shortly but that's a job for tomorrow night now I think - bit too late tonight...

themadvix

That sounds like a lovely Mothers' Day Cheery

Great going with the MB - you're making me think I should have a go at the low-hanging fruit at least. DH did a bit a while ago and made about £500. If I could make a little bit just by doing the sign-up offers it would be good.

Hope you get the cars sorted soon!

Karmacat

Ooh, I hunted out Team Profit after reading your last post, Cheery, that's very interesting. I see they have a section on reload offers - they get way too complicated on the mse section, so there's hope for me yet.

Glad you had such a good Mother's Day weekend - really hope the cars behave, though.

Cheery_Daff

Morning people :hello: yes definitely worth having a go at the low hanging fruit I'd say, and the easy reload offers. Apparently new signups are arriving all the time too.

Although I'm no advert for it this morning - got completely caught up 'just doing the next sign up' (and the next) and haven't started actual work yet :eek: very easy to get sucked in! But then I have to say that applies to pretty much everything with me, including MSE forum :rotfl:

teapot2

Yes, its very easy to 'lose' a few hours pottering about on forum such as this and then heading off to chase interesting ideas elsewhere

I've never had a go at MB but have always had it in the back of my mind to try, maybe nows the time I'll have a gander at Team Profit and see.....

Cheery_Daff

Morning all :hello:

Big car has been to the garage - and come back home again in the same state as apparently we ordered the wrong part :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: That's what you get for thinking you can ignore serial numbers and just go off the make/model/year/engine size etc of the car. Apparently not!

So more tedious admin to sort that out at some point. Other car is going to other garage on Wednesday so will ask them for advice (not sure big car will get as far as the garage near work hence going to a more local one)

Matched betting experiment is going well. I'd got up to just under £300 yesterday afternoon :money: and then something baffling happened and I had to get the Team Profit people to help me understand...

... basically a bizarre series of coincidences meant I'd unintentionally taken part in an offer running alongside the one I was intending to do - meaning I won an extra £255 :eek: :j :j :rotfl: Took me forever to figure it out and I'm sure the live chat guy was laughing in the office as I was so baffled :rotfl: :rotfl:

Anyway, I am assured I did everything right, and there was no way I could have lost money by accident doing what I was doing (which was my main concern) - this was just a happy coincidence.

So now apparently I'm £555 at the end of my third week :eek: :money: :rotfl:

Karmacat

Cheery! :bdaycake:


**bellows happily**


How brilliant is that! Congratulations!