Simple living in the country - back to basics

greent

Ooh - great going on the HW! 🙌🙌

missymoo81

Hey Cheery! 

I’ve just found you have a whole new diary that I don’t think I’ve even taken a peek at! So sorry! I hope you’re ok. Just saw you pop up on another thread, and it reminded me how much I love reading your adventures. So that’s my train reading for today, to catch up on all 131 pages!

Karmacat

Brilliant news on the HW and yes, so glad your weekend was so brilliant  

edwink

Hi Cheery

Sounds like you had a fabulous weekend.  How lovely for you both to be able to let your hair down and have a relaxing time.

Well done with the Happy Wheel.  You certainly do seem to have the knack for it I must say.

Edwink x

Cheery_Daff

Hello all, and thank you! Missy, long time no see! Nice to have you around 😊 and edwink, there's no special skill at all, pure chance! 

I'm at a work event all week, nice to be out of the routine, and out of the office, but it does involve driving every day (and is only a mile from the office so still a two hour round trip). Today I realised I was in high danger of eating biscuits all week - there are pastries on arrival, biscuits available all day, and lunch is sandwiches, salad, and potato wedges - fairly innocuous itself but those biscuits are lethal 😂

I've packed myself a selection of fruit and wholesome snacks, plus some nice herbal teabags (I'm FAR less likely to dip a biscuit in a herbal tea!!) 

I helped organise the darn thing - I'm sure in previous years we had fruit and a better dinner 😂😂 But I don't remember choosing a menu this time - I suspect we just chose a similar cost to last year, assuming it would be roughly the same...

Anyway nothing else to report. Monday Finances day but I confess I didn't do anything. I'm still tired from the weekend and hormonally grumpy 🙄 Mr Cheery made noodles for tea, we went for a wander out to the road and back, got stuff ready for tomorrow, watched a bit of TV, and now I'm back in bed.

Main thing on the finances list this week is paying the garage bill - it's £85 ish and the money is there, just need to transfer it.

Right, snoozing!

EssexHebridean

What a lovely sounding weekend - and so good to recharge the social interaction batteries a little - I do absolutely understand your comment about so many people being a little overwhelming though! 

Sounds very much like the venue for the event have downgraded the standard of their food while leaving the costs the same doesn't it! 

Cheery_Daff

Yep, that's definitely the conclusion we came to! Hey ho - we should have clarified... and to be fair, the invoice does list the food... 

Never mind - I've just had a weekend of indulgence and don't need an entire week of pastries, hot dinners and puddings to contend with as well 😂

Cheery_Daff

Evening MSE chums 😊

Another acceptable day at the work event, and I popped to see a friend for a cuppa afterwards, and she made me some food too, so that was nice. 

Tackled a bit of a dragon today - I've been putting off making a docs appointment but finally got round to ringing up today. I'm normally not bad at these things, but this is an underlying set of 'are they there or am I imagining things' issues - I've finally decided I'm not imagining things, and now have an appointment- not for another month, mind you 🙄 but still, feeling better now it's in the diary, and that gives me time to monitor how things change.

Nothing else to report I don't think. Not spent anything today. 

Tomorrow is a bit of a faff. We're travelling together so Mr Cheery can continue on to see his dad, but I have a dentist appointment at 9am, which means setting off super early- I was 3 mins late once after getting stuck in traffic and they wouldn't see me so I'm taking no chances 🙄 aiming to leave at 7am 🙄 which means we'll probably miss rush hour, and I'll be stuck sitting on a wall outside the dentist for an hour - there's not even a cafe near there that will be open at that hour. 

I've got a 90 min appointment to start the work for my bridges, and then have to get back to the other side of town for work event - likely in a taxi, as I stupidly forgot about all this, so didn't leave laptop charger, keyboard etc at the event venue 🙄 I might feel moved to walk, but after 90 mins in the dentist it's likely I won't... 🙄

Hey ho, I'm sure it'll all work out fine...

beanielou

Hope tomorrow works out well.

Elisheba

Good luck at the dentist, and getting to the work event.