Giving every £ a job

Sarahwithlove

Its always white and blue if I can find them for us, for mine and my mums football team. 

Blackcats

Such lovely ways to remember our loved ones .  Flowers can do the job of making us happy even when we are sad.

feeling pleased with my sant n dec bank account switch.  I've received the £175 switching money, cashback earned is slightly more than the £3/month account fee and I've now put the max £4000 into the 7% savings account.  Received £14 interest for the first part month.  Need to pay in £500 each month which hopefully I'll remember to do.

I'm glossing over the football and enjoying The Hundred cricket final on tv. 

And really enjoying my book - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex - it's a bit different and although I'm halfway through I still haven't worked out what happened on the lighthouse.

Blackcats

No money has been spent today because most of today has been spent trying to rescue the cat from our neighbour's garden.  Blackcat had decided to go adventuring rather than sleeping the day away and at lunchtime we heard some piteous miaowing over the fence in neighbour's garden.  On investigation cat was sitting helplessly at the bottom of the fence.  

MrBC went into rescue mode -
first attempt was to try to rationally explain to cat that he could climb onto the shed roof and then onto the fence and then back over to our garden - failed
second attempt (which was always doomed to failure) MrBC attached some string to the handles of a plastic garden tub, sprinkled in some dreamies and lowered it over the fence.  Cat ate the dreamies without climbing into the tub.  Fail
third attempt  was a plank of wood lowered over to form a ramp and then a detailed explanation to the cat on how to walk up the ramp -fail

By now I've ascertained that our neighbours are on holiday!

so one ladder over-the fence, one ladder wedged into our raised flower bed and MrBC clambers over, picks up a very docile cat, climbs back up and hands the cat to me.

2 jolly hours spent on this ridiculous escapade.  Cat ate his dinner and is sound asleep on the sofa 😸

savingholmes

Glad you were both safe despite the cat's escapades! Be careful with that precarious balancing etc! If that'd been me - I'd have fallen and the cat would have jumped over me 

KeepOnKnitting

Oh no! Now Blackcat thinks that if he goes into the neighbours' garden and shouts, he gets brought dreamies! I hope he doesn't think it is worth repeating!

Sun_Addict

How did your cat get in the neighbour’s garden so he couldn’t get himself back out? Glad you successfully rescued him. Hopefully he won’t do it again although he might be tempted by the thought of Dreamies 😆

Blackcats

Ah yes, that's a potential additional flaw in the rescue plan but I'm hoping that Blackcat will remember being trapped and forget the dreamies.

Friday fakeaway is chicken Gyros and MrBC is head chef tonight.  This means I can enjoy a glass of fizz and watch Four in a Bed - happy days.

spending on the garden room is in full flow and I keep reminding myself that it is budgeted for but it's still a bit disconcerting flashing the cash.

savingholmes

I hated parting with £ for my roof but it was sorely needed so I feel your pain. The garden room sounds like it will be well worth it.

Blackcats

thank you @savingholmes.

did a quick tidy up of the bathroom cabinets this morning and was delighted to find a nice handcream, small body butter (small tub rather than body butter for small bodies), 2 x No7 moisturisers.  Had forgotten about all of these things so was very nice to be able to bring them into service.
I had catch up calls with 2 former colleagues last week.  Jeepers!  Nothing has changed since I left.  In fact the "leadership" team are still grappling with the same fairly small issue.  No-one seems to want to make a decision so talking, word-smithing and then backtracking helps avoid decision making and implementation..  So glad I'm not there anymore and can enjoy every day free from the nonsense I was immersed in for so long!

Makingabobor2

Hi @Blackcats, just started following you, as you so kindly read my diary. Catching up slowly a few pages at a time.