Eating a Vegetarian Elephant

Poppycat1

What colour roses did you get?

Karmacat

Hope doggo's okay still, poor thing.  And your holibob is going ahead!  Yay  

Chiglepig

@Poppycat1 I got Madame Albert Carriere, which is white for the back garden and Gertrude Jekyll, a deepish pink for the front - both really highly scented.

@Karmacat, doggo is none the worse for it - hasn't even needed antibiotics - he is a typical working spaniel, there's alway something!

The car is costing us more than originally quoted, but not significantly so and all of the things the garage identified, we kind of knew about, but it definitely owes us an extra year now . One useful thing was the garage lent us a car to use which was SO awful, DH has ruled the make off his list!

Chiglepig

My spendy week continues - haircut today, first one in 11 months

And I've ordered myself two cotton nightdresses, based on Victorian designs as a belated birthday present (well I'm getting to that age!).

As an MSE penance I have put every container I can find outside to catch the rain from the predicted thunderstorms tonight.

Chiglepig

Oh and my gym has reinstated my membership two weeks early at no cost, so I'm going to go and do some gentle swimming to help my foot.

Karmacat

Ooh, extra rainwater!  Are you going to just put it in the watering can, or do you have a master plan  

Chiglepig

Karmacat said:

Ooh, extra rainwater!  Are you going to just put it in the watering can, or do you have a master plan  

KC, I have one water but that isn't connected to a downpipe yet, so some will go in there, any that doesn't 'fit' will sit around in various buckets to be used over the next week or so! I've been trying to get a galvanised drinking trough as a back up for months now and everywhere is out of stock.

Chiglepig

Well the rain was nice and steady for the evening, but I haven't collected as much as I wanted to top up the pond or the water butt

My roses arrived, and the Gertrude Jekyll is in full bloom - the scent as I opened the box was amazing. Hopefully, it will look like this by next year:

Chiglepig

I take back what I said about collecting rainwater the pond is overflowing and the wheelbarrow and buckets are half to two-thirds full!

Checked my Nectar total last night and was really surprised to see it was at £77.70. There was a 1500 addition from Nectar Canvas, I have no idea what for but I'm not going to complain. That's more than I collected in the whole of last year, so now I just have to hope my parents will be here for Christmas to help us enjoy it.

Lot's of work meetings today, so I'm not unhappy with the rain.

We have the car back - it cost more than originally quoted, but they did more (not unexpected) work as I said earlier in the week. DH has a friend who has been putting him off electric cars (bad experience driving from London to the Midlands), and with the money we have spent, he definitely wants to put off any new car decision, so his lump sum is staying in PBs for the foreseeable.

On the mortgage front, my S&S ISA returns are just beginning to edge ahead of my mortgage rate, but not so significantly that I'm going to change the balance between OPs and investments just yet.

Poppycat1

@Chiglepig - belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY.  Did you do anything nice?  

The roses sound lovely.  There is a garden near me that has about 12 different rose plants in their front garden and they are all out.  It really does look beautiful.  I have an apricot one that was here when I bought the place, it has just just started to come out and it smells lovely.  The previous owners were really in to gardening, every few weeks something comes up that I didn't know was there or I had forgotten.