Cheery's country living adventure

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: I've been quaffing effervescent vitamin c tablets like they're going out of fashion :rotfl:

Feeling a bit brighter today :j still tired, still sniffly, still creaky, but brain fog is starting to lift a bit thank goodness.

This is the one thing I can 't be doing with about living in the middle of nowhere - spending far too much time thinking about parking :rotfl: I've set up a weekly list which reminds me which days to check for permits which is helping (you can only apply 10 days before, and they go quickly so you HAVE to apply that day or you won't get one).

I've made a blanket decision to apply for them on the days I start at 9am, which means looking each Monday and Tuesday. Was out all day this Monday and missed my chance, pah! Still, at least I have one today and tomorrow :j

Brought lunch to work today - I've done that every day this week (except Monday when we had free lunch at an event). Got some satsumas but I haven't got any other snacks so I suspect there may be a vending machine trip at some point...

EssexHebridean

Keep eating the satsumas - think about all that lovely vitamin C....

Cheery_Daff

Ha, yes you're right of course :j

Slowly feeling better although VERY ready for a week off (which probably won't be til Christmas :eek: )

Took lunch again to work, and Mr Cheery made a tasty tea for when I got in so I've actually been eating pretty well this week. I confess I did have a vending machine trip though... need to get on the case with that...

Nowt much else to report. Stopped for diesel in the little car today but that's it.

themadvix

Well done for taking in the lunch when you’ve been feeling so rotten Cheery! I think you can be forgiven a vending machine trip under the circumstances.

Hope you’re feeling better soon.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Vix

Feeling physically much better today, and thank goodness, because I have been engaged in a battle of epic proportions with another department at work :eek: :rotfl: I don't know whether I won, because while I got what I wanted, I had to do it myself, when they should have done it :rotfl:

Still, who cares, it's done now, and I've had a lovely few hours with a cheery pal and her kids, and have done the first coat of plaster on the little bit of wall that needed repairing :j

Also passed £4200 of MB dosh today so good things all round!

Busy weekend ahead... In no particular order I'm planning to...

* do an hour of work to get to the end of something I've been trying to do all day

* pop to town to buy more plaster and some staples for the staple gun

* do next coat of plaster

* do next coat of paint

* staple plastic stuff over the chicken run

* do some washing (there's a rumour it may not rain tomorrow and I need to take advantage, not really got anywhere to hang stuff while the builders are here)

* wait in a stupid parcel which mr cheery tried to collect from the sorting office today and which they wouldn't give him, because it was addressed to me... I did suspect they'd do that... most vexing as there were too and they're both things he ordered for himself :rotfl:

* get some more diploma work done

That's probably enough I think!

Cheery_Daff

Well bizarrely enough I did everything on that list except stapling the plastic to the chicken run :j

Funny old day. Got quite a bit done but I've been tired and Mr Cheery has been quite beleaguered health wise today so not for as much done as planned.

But here are all the good things I did do:

* couple of hours of work (I know, I know, but I have a major deadline on Monday and the builders are arriving too and I don't want there to be anything left to do by then other than press submit)

* nipped to town and bought
- staples for staple gun to attach plastic to chicken run (£7)
- extra plaster for the little patching job
- food and loo roll (including refreshments for the builders as we'll set them up a little kitchen area - we'll have to move to a temporary kitchen in the music room and I'm trying to keep the builders off the carpet!)

* did some washing - hung it outside for a couple of hours but it didn't dry much so it's being rotated round radiators

* finished plastering :j

* painted second coat of Happy Yellow on the landing

* made £26 doing MB

* did an hour or so on the diploma

* had a cafe trip with Mr Cheery

In bed now as I was just starting into space I was that tired :rotfl:
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themadvix

Not surprised you needed an early night after all of that!

Bargainhunter30

Hi Cheery, just wanted to stop by and say a huge thanks :T

Started matched betting this week spurred on by reading about how well you're doing and so far I've made nearly £70, hoping to cross the £100 line by the end of week 1! :j So thanks again for all the inspiration and motivation! BHx

Cheery_Daff

:hello:

Hello BH, how fantastic!! :j :j :j Really pleased to hear you're doing so well in your first week :j It's so daunting at the beginning isn't it? But once I'd jumped in I wondered why it'd taken me about 10 years to get going :rotfl: :rotfl: Hope you continue to do well - it gets much easier once you've got your head round it!

Busy weekend here, and mr Cheery is still feeling rotten. Still, I'll filled in a bit of extra wall, and if the plaster ever dries I'll get it painted, and then we can move the bookcases back in :j

Also made a start on the new chicken prison (sorry, 'chicken safety play area' to stop the chickens interfering with the builders next week. Don't want to confine them to just their run for a fortnight, but equally if they're free range they'll be jumping in the van with the tools, and getting under everyone's feet, and at some point one of them will get hurt. So we're fencing them into an area of garden that includes their dust bath and will give them plenty to play with and hope for the best.

Speaking of which, best get back out there. It's all measured out now so I just need to bang in some posts and get to work with the staple gun. Would like to do it before dark, then I can get back in to sort out the painting, and do a bit of normal tidying up - no washing up or hoovering has been done for days

Cheery_Daff

Evening MSE chums :hello:

So, the builders are here :j They are a lovely bunch, thank goodness :j :j Efficient and cheerful and leave the place tidy at the end of each day (far more tidy than we'd leave it ourselves!)

The kitchen now has no ceiling :eek: We only had one joist left this morning - the one with the gas pipe running along it - and the gas fitter (who was meant to come last Thursday, but kept rearranging) rang this morning saying he was ill :mad: Fortunately cheerful builders called in a gas fitter pal and to my surprise they actually managed to get him to come and do it today, so they've now removed the final joist as well :j

They're ordering the windows tomorrow :j :j Most exciting. And they've started bricking up and filling in the end of the chimney wall that we took down (well, I say 'we' - Mr Cheery actually did it :rotfl: )

Builder's asked for payment for the windows and the floorboards, as neither of them do accounts - which is fine - except I've logged into the joint account and I don't actually have enough in there :rotfl: because I was going to do all the transferring *After* payday :rotfl:

No bother - I'll just transfer it from the TSB account - except the bloody TSB website won't let me in, and now I'm trying to reset my password and it won't let me do that either :mad: :rotfl:

Hey ho. Have transferred it from the MB account, and once it's in the joint account I'll transfer it to the builder. And then I'll try again in the morning with the TSB one once the internet is better in the morning :rotfl: