Simple living in the country - back to basics

Karmacat

Lovely photo, Cheery, lovely ambience, and lots of light sources.  With flowers 🌺

Have a wonderful weekend with friends!  You sound like this is a very welcome break for you, though I notice you're also *really* on top of repayments and overpayments, which is brilliant.

Cheery_Daff

MovingForwards said:

Have you looked into a contract with your oil supplier, perhaps try in summer when prices might be more favourable.

It's LPG, not oil - and I've been meaning to sign up to another fix for almost 2 years and never quite got round to it 🙄 Idiot. Mind you, if I'd signed up 2 years ago I'd be coming out of the end of that fix now anyway, so.... 

After this top up we shouldn't need another one til towards the end of the summer I don't think, so I hereby promise that I WILL have sorted another contract by then if I can find a sensible fix. Not exactly difficult as I think we only have 3 suppliers anyway round here 😂

Cheery_Daff

Karmacat said:

Lovely photo, Cheery, lovely ambience, and lots of light sources.  With flowers 🌺

Have a wonderful weekend with friends!  You sound like this is a very welcome break for you, though I notice you're also *really* on top of repayments and overpayments, which is brilliant.

Thanks 😊 Yes this is definitely a welcome break, and I have just woken up from a very welcome nap on the sofa 😂

Very pleased with the kitchen - I'll get a second coat on while I'm off, although not today. Really pleased we had the extra windows put in as it does make a difference, even though two are north facing. And yes, Mr Cheery is to blame for many wall lights - it's much nicer than one big overhead one. There is a bright overhead one at the kitchen end, but we don't turn it on unless we've lost something 😂

Had a lovely swim this morning, so that's gym membership down to £9 per visit for Feb 😊 One wall is all windows looking over the park, so you can see the trees as you swim, and today the sunlight was streaming in and making lots of rainbows in the water. Most lovely 😊😊 Then we had a nice cafe breakfast (yes, cafe habits creeping back in after uber frugal January...), and then, like I say, a nice, well needed, nap.

Two friends have confirmed, and the other two declined, so while I'm sorry not to see the second two (and am slightly worried that one of them might have been quite poorly without saying anything), it does make it easier as we only need one bed. 

In a minute I'll get up, get dressed again 😂 wake Mr Cheery from his own nap elsewhere in the house 😂 and we can start pottering about.

Oh! And it's four years today since we moved here! Can you believe that?? It's gone so quickly, and yet so many things have happened. A nice reason to raise a glass this weekend 😊

Suffolk_lass

Just popping in to mention I like the nice sunny yellow. Your litchen looks lovely.

We had a leaky bit that came through on the ceiling of the dining room and to stop the edge of the wet stain leeching through emulsion, undercoating the plaster with an oil-based undercoat will seal it in. You might need an extra bit of emulsion to stop it looking too shiny but I can vouch for it working (since repeated in the moho too!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks SL 😊 We had to do that with the ceiling in our old house. This is still bare plaster, and has only leaked a couple of times since we moved in so I'm hoping it will just dry out... but if not, I suspect we've probably still got some of that stuff from last time.

Trying to book travel and hotel for a work trip at the end of next week. Not been on a train for 2 years 😂 Have to say the Aventis website is SO annoying - I was looking at tickets on national rail enquiries, it directed me to avant, who let me go all the way through selecting my tickets, but wouldn't let me buy tickets without logging in. Wouldn't let me log in, wouldn't let me set up a new account as apparently I already had one. Told me I'd forgotten my password (it's saved in a password manager, so it seems unlikely). Had to reset password - and then when I FINALLY got logged in it had saved none of the ticket details so I had to start all over again! 

Apparently there are no working toilets or ticket machines at the station I'm leaving from, so that's nice 😠 can't collect tickets from elsewhere, and they want £7.50 to post them, so I've had to have a stupid e ticket.

Most annoyed but it's done now!

themadvix

Happy Housiversary! Have a lovely evening this evening!

beanielou

Enjoy your evening 

Karmacat

Astonishingly bad service about the rail tickets - but very exciting to go on a train again, my word.  Anyway, hope you're having a lovely evening by now with your friends, that's what really matters.

Suffolk_lass

Is Trainline still going? they used to let you book to collect locally for any line

Fortune_Smiles

Oh my Cheery - four years!  Look at how much you've accomplished in that time.  Amazing 😁

Fortune x