Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 me too! 

Car has been serviced and tyre replaced - £260 all in which ain't bad. The track rod end and another tyre will need doing soon - MOT is due mid October so I'll book it in for that at the earliest point I can and get it all done at the same time. 

Collected the parcel I'd forgotten I ordered - straps for the hammock!! Mr Cheery picked up the hammock in a charity shop years ago but we never had anywhere to hang it. Theb we moved here and have the perfect line of trees, but it had no straps, and somehow it's taken me five years to order some 🙄 They took less than 48 hours to arrive and cost less than £10, including postage 🙄😂

Had a brief go but it was going dark and my cardi buttons kept catching in the netting (it's one that looks like a fishing net - which might just prove too annoying, we'll see!) Anyway, the straps work fine so I'll have a play tomorrow 😊

Money wise, another £29 on the Happy wheel today, currently at £154.

A few little Prolific surveys throughout the day, now at £25.93 + £2.79 pending 

Flurry of 1P this evening, now at £8.25, I don't think I'll make payout this month but we'll see!

Would be nice to get to £200 extra but that entirely depends on the Happy wheel of course.

Working at home tomorrow - probably not from the hammock 😂

KajiKita

The hammock sounds fun 😊 Can you see your lovely view from it?

Well done on the increased income tasks. I keep meaning to do more of this but don’t seem to have the time / head space. Might get back to it when this latest DIY push is done, or at least calms down a bit. 

KK

Cheery_Daff

Yes, I could certainly put more focus on DIY 😂 although these things mostly get done at the end of the evening when I'm fit for nothing else anyway so not really a good reason in my case 😂

Working at home today. Planned a workout before I start but I'm still in bed so need to get my backside into gear!

Cheery_Daff

Oh, and the invoice from the rendering geezer has arrived - I'm putting off opening it 🙄 Not sure why - quote was £900, he did one extra bit which he estimated at £30 labour, plus bought an extra bit of fascia board because we didn't have as much as he'd thought, so I can't imagine it's outlandish more than I was expecting... 

I suppose I won't know til I open it...

starnac

Pull up your big girl pants and open it. It can't be that much more that what he quoted surely? Although saying that I would have the same reaction as you  

We have a hammock here but it's a fabric one. We stayed with a lovely friend in Scotland when the kids were small and they had one. The kids spend their whole time in it. They loved it. When we moved here we found a hammock frame so we bought the fabric hammock cheap and set it up. Problem was the kids remember how the two of them used to lie together in the other one and tried to do it again. Bear in mind DS was potty training age when we were in Scotland and is now starting secondary school in September! So you can imagine how that went! The metal frame bent and broke! (It was old and they were messing around) DH has since found two nice trees to hang it from so they are fine! 

Cheery_Daff

Oops to breaking the hammock! Fortunately ours is between two trees otherwise I suspect we'd have a similar calamity with just one of me 😂

Thanks for the encouragement to open the invoice 😂 I did, and it's £1029 - £900 as expected, £30 extra labour, and £99 for extra fascia board and fixings (he's also sent the receipt for that). So not outlandish at all, and I'll get it paid either tonight or tomorrow.

Decided I should do the workout anyway, otherwise I'd spend the day being annoyed at myself. I have, but now won't be starting work til 10.30 🙄 Doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, I'll just work later, but I could have spent that time doing something more useful than just scrolling through the Internet! 

Lessons should be learned, but I suspect they won't be 🙄😂

starnac

Cheery_Daff said:

Lessons should be learned, but I suspect they won't be 🙄😂

Ooh my life motto right there  

EssexHebridean

I think we've all been guilty of losing time to internet rabbit-holes and then cursing ourselves later, haven't we! 

And well done for opening the invoice and finding that it really wasn't any scarier than you were expecting! 

rtandon27

starnac said:

Pull up your big girl pants and open it. ...

A much needed laugh for today! 🤣🤣🤣

Fortune_Smiles

Very pleased to hear you haven't been charged extra for grey paint 😆

Fortune x