Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 you lot! The dirty clothes are fine - it's all the clean ones that I intend to wear later that are the problem 🙄 I just need to learn to take them upstairs when I go to bed! I'm blaming the fact that the bathroom is in a different 'wing' of the house, so you have to go down some stairs, then back up some other stairs, to get to the bedroom. But I'm pretty sure I was the same in our old house so can't really blame that! 🙄😂

greenbee

Well if you will live in a stately home, with multiple wings, and insist on doing so without the appropriate staff, you only have yourself to blame

rtandon27

greenbee said:

Well if you will live in a stately home, with multiple wings, and insist on doing so without the appropriate staff, you only have yourself to blame

   

Cheery_Daff

greenbee said:

Well if you will live in a stately home, with multiple wings, and insist on doing so without the appropriate staff, you only have yourself to blame

😂😂😂 Indeed. That's my main problem really - not being able to afford Jeeves 😂😂😂

greenbee

It sounds like you need to start with the laundry maid! 

EssexHebridean

haha - a maid would definitely solve the issue wouldn't it!  Definitely no chance of leaving clothes in our bathroom I'm delighted to say - it's just not big enough! Having said that, I'm sure MrEH would give it a go if he didn't already know he'd find them dumped on his head in the early hours after I'd got up for the loo and tripped over them!  

Cheery_Daff

Evening MSE chums. Sad day here today, had to have Budgie Chicken put to sleep this afternoon 😕 Less than two weeks after Sunshine died - no indication it was related as two completely different things, just a sorry coincidence. 

Only 3 left now - the two we got in January, and Bessie, who at 5.5 years old is positively ancient for an ex battery hen, and has outlived the two she came with, and six others who arrived after her 😕 She's now left with the two boisterous youngsters, and I can't imagine she'll be best pleased. As soon as we lose her, we're passing the young ones on to someone a few miles away who took our friends' hens when she moved abroad. 

Anyway, I've not exactly got any work done today - will retrospectively book it as annual leave - I have five weeks worth to use up before the end of August.

Heading out now, old friend of mine is doing a public lecture and while part of me wants to just hole up at home, it's probably best to do something else. Mr Cheery is at his dad's and isn't taking it well at all so I need to be in a slightly more chipper frame of mind before he gets back later.

Anyway, money-wise, not a cheap day. £88 at the vets, I've had two cafe trips 🙄 and bought myself a little birthday present in the bookshop for tomorrow as all signs are that other people have their minds elsewhere... No particular plans for tomorrow, starting off with a chicken funeral I suppose 🙄 and then hopefully the day will get better after that, rather than worse!

Right, best get off to this lecture.

themadvix

Oh Cheery, so sorry to hear that. She had a good life with you. And while I completely understand your decision not to have more chickens after this, when the time comes (and long may Bessie live - she sounds indestructible!), I’ll miss vicarious chicken-owning through you (if that makes sense?).

I hope the lecture distracts you somewhat.

rtandon27

Awww Cheery - so sorry to hear about budgie - sending a big hug xxx

Cheery_Daff

Thanks ladies xxx TMV, you'll have to get some chickens yourself, then I can do vicarious chicken ownership through you! 

Pleased to say I've made it to the lecture 😊