Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

I think you get a hire car if you use an approved garage - but I have no idea where that would be. Never occurred to me to check! When we loved in the city we just had one car between us and just managed without when it was in the garage. Now we have two, and will just use the other one. Of course that's not practical for everyone - neither of us have a job we have to be at every day though so it's fine for us.

We have got windscreen cover included this time. Not sure whether it usually is!

I suppose all our cars have always been pretty cheap (usually under £10000 [EDIT: OBVIOUSLY I meant under £1000!] although these two were both about £1300) so we've always just figured we'd replace if anything happened - and, touch wood, it never has - I've never claimed on house or car insurance for anything. 

Weather still pretty calm up here, thankfully. I was thinking we'd not done much to prepare, but there are some things we're pretty prepared with all the time anyway (food, loo roll, chicken supplies) and others we stocked up with last time the power went out (batteries, camping stove, spare hot water bottle etc). Fingers crossed we don't need any of it.

Fortune_Smiles

Cheery_Daff said:

When we loved in the city... 

I think one should always 'love' somewhere rather than 'live' somewhere 💕💕💕

Fortune x

Cheery_Daff

Fortune_Smiles said:

Cheery_Daff said:

When we loved in the city... 

I think one should always 'love' somewhere rather than 'live' somewhere 💕💕💕

Fortune x

🥰😂😂 I did love living in the city, and we did meet there and spend our first 12 years together there, so... 🥰

Getting a bit more soggy now breezy up here now but nowt drastic so far. I'm getting the house all cosy and charging everything up just in case. And I remembered that last time the power went off I hadn't washed my hair for a few days and that was one of the most annoying things 😂😂 so I had a good shower and gave it a thorough wash this morning just in case 😂

Impressed at how well chimney sheep has been holding up. In Storm Dudleythe other day I could hear a howling gale outside, but the little thing hanging at the bottom of chimney sheep (to remind you it's there so you don't light the fire) wasn't moving at all. Definitely a good buy!

MovingForwards

It was only the first couple of years I had TPFT insurance, then I did a FC quote for a laugh thinking it would be expensive and have stuck with it ever since. Same as you if anything happened to my car I'd deal with it / replace it.

I've driven through heavy snow today, sorry if it makes its way down to everyone, the winds seem to have stopped.

Agree with Fortune about 'love' autocorrect, makes the sentence seem more alive and with happy memories behind it.

Fortune_Smiles

Great minds think alike Cheery - I had a shower and washed my hair first thing too 😂  It's actually quite mild here in the Shire though and the forecast was for the worst to hit us between 12 and 3pm.  BBC weather said to expect 70-87mph gusts but the Met Office is saying 45mph max.  45mph is a standard windy day for us here so I'm hoping we're going to escape the worst.  Still, I'd rather be prepared and not have to face it than be unprepared and have to face it.

Stay safe.

Fortune x

badmemory

Well so far I am having an interesting day weather wise.  So far today & yesterday too all I have done is sit in front of this screen & hardly moved.  Joints are being a pain in the proverbial.  Yesterday my fitbit said I had done 126 flights.  That isn't a typo.  I got my rollercoaster badge!  Totally unjustified as I doubt I did one flight fast enough to count.  Today well it's only counted 2, also totally unjustified, but my ears are popping for England.  It can only be down to the wind which has got up again over the last couple of hours.

beanielou

I think it is part of being a bit older & wiser(!!) & just not wanting the hassle.

Cheery_Daff

Hope you all survived unscathed xxx How weird about your fitbit Badmemory!  Very odd! 

Nothing untoward to report here, thank goodness. We lost power a couple of times for five minutes or so, but it came back on quickly. It was quite something to see the rain being blown across the fields, but we are high and exposed up here so that happens reasonably often anyway 🙄 Didn't lost any trees, and the garden bench that blew to the end of the garden in Storm Dudley didn't break through the one strand of wire fencing holding it in so all good 😂😂

Chicken run held up fine, including all the cardboard Mr Cheery stapled to it in Storm Arwen,  so the ladies were cosy and safe (they don't like the sound of the wind, but they had plenty of treats, some turf to peck at, and some more wood chip to mess about in).

It snowed overnight, not much, but it's coming down again gently now.



I am planning to stay inside - I want a full draft of this job form printed and ready for a final proof read tonight. Going round in circles now, and still need to lose 2000 words. I'm good at chopping, and Mr Cheery spent 20 years as an editor, but with that many words it's about replacing entire sections with a sentence so the difficult bit is not just being concise, but deciding which bits are most important.

Anyway, it's going to get done today - might have to put my phone in a different room though as I've already picked it up about 10 times in the last hour 🙄😂😂

Cheery_Daff

beanielou said:

I think it is part of being a bit older & wiser(!!) & just not wanting the hassle.

Yes Beanie, this is exactly it - I'm sick of sorting things out and just want a few things to make life easier at this stage! And thank goodness we're not at the point where we need to scrimp and save every penny any more.

Right, phone is going somewhere else. Back later!

South_coast

See, I'm definitely a softie Southerner, as that looks like quite a lot of snow to me 🤣!