Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

beanielou said:

Remember your friends when agent millions comes a calling 

Ha Beanie - if I will a million on the premium bonds I promise I will send all my MSE pals a little something 😁

Still hobbling and groaning 🙄 be we had a mini jaunt into town to get me moving a bit, and I've had a bath, and it's not as acute a pain as it was. Bessie has had her next lot of tablets (uneventful, although she's getting wary of us going near her now, unsurprisingly), only 7 doses left now. 

Mr Cheery is making me some tea. Not quite sure what to do with myself today, all my plans involved things like digging, painting, hanging the washing up etc and they're all off limits now!

Fortune_Smiles

Oh no Cheery!  I hope you haven't done yourself any serious damage.

Fortune x

beanielou

Oh & rest & heat may help your back.
Take care.

VintageHistorian

Compost turning is dangerous! Hope you feel better soon!

Suffolk_lass

beanielou said:

Remember your friends when agent millions comes a calling 

lol Love this  

I hope you back is better today Cheery

Cheery_Daff

Thanks all 😊 Can't imagine there's permanent damage, I'm still sore today but not incapacitated, I've hung the washing out and been pottering round the garden picking up bits of litter, tools, and all manner of rubbish that's accumulated over the winter 🙄 So I'm mobile, just wincing and saying 'ow' occasionally, and taking a long time to get from sitting to standing and vice versa 😂

Had another cafe breakfast, and it's a glorious day so I've done a bit of sitting outside reading 😊 Got one load of washing on the line, and another in the machine, and the stuff on the line is almost dry already 😊😊

When we moved, one of the 'must have' things on my list was space for a washing line 😂😂 Definitely got that now!! We didn't have one at the old house, just had a tiny strip of garden running alongside the pavement. I used to put the airer outside sometimes, until the day a neighbour knocked on the door to tell me my washing had all blown into the road 😮😂😂

No chance of that here! It often ends up in the mud when I don't stick on enough pegs, but I've never had it retrieved by a neighbour 😂😂

Cheery_Daff

Anyway, Bessie has had her latest medication this morning, which means we're over half way - 8 doses done (the first done by the vet) and 6 to go. Woo hoo! Not sure she seems any better, but she certainly doesn't seem worse. 

Mr Cheery made soup from last night's leftover curry, so we've had that and i think i might go and see if I can make a little start on some greenhouse pottering. Feels late, but our season is so far behind anyone else's that there's no real point sowing anything before now anyway - it snowed on 6th May last year so nothing will be coming out of the greenhouse til roughly then anyway!

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff said:

I don't like sailing so close to the bottom of the bank account when I don't have to - this is purely a cash flow issue caused by me having shoved everything into premium bonds (including all annual savings pots for insurance, gas etc) but then trying to fund those costs from the normal bank account, without taking them back out of the premium bonds.

Impressed I've got this far actually 🙄😂😂

It would be nice to have built the Premium Bonds back up to over £10k again by the end of the year, as well as having a reasonable float in the main account, but we'll see...

I'd do that, in your situation and it's great that even though the strike days are being taken out, you've been managing it for quite a while.

EssexHebridean

Ouch to your poor back - definitely a good plan to take it easy for a few days at least. Back pain is particularly awful because there feels like there’s almost nothing you can do without it hurting, I think. 

 Well done with Bessie’s tablets though - and do you know you actually already sound less stressed about having to give them to her so well done on that! 

As for the money thing, better to take it out if needed and not leave things being too tight - or at the very least to be ready to withdraw what is needed in enough time for it to plug gaps, but absolutely yes to leaving it until after the next draw if you possibly can - otherwise you’ll always be wondering if those would have been the bonds to get you the Agent Million phone call, wouldn’t you! 

Cheery_Daff

Thanks both 😊 I reckon we can make it to the 1st without incident! 

I've actually got quite a lot done today, to my surprise! Nice a slowly. Two loads of washing, washed and dried. All the soil emptied out of last year's pots in the greenhouse. Moved two bays of compost - kneeling on the floor and doing a scoop at a time with my heavy duty gloves on 😂😂 A surprisingly effective way of turning it actually - MUCH easier than doing it with the spade! 😂

We also went on a little jaunt, and I bought a couple of unnecessary but cheerful bits of clothing in the charity shop - a bright yellow shirt for knocking about and garden pottering, and a purply shirt that will be good for work now it's getting a bit warmer.

Caused consternation in the chicken run today - Bessie is getting increasingly wary of us (unsurprisingly) and she was harder to catch today. All done fine though (only 5 doses left now). But when we went to shut them into bed, we realised Mr Cheery had knocked the door to the hen house shut, they'd not been able to get into bed! 😮

Fortunately there's a second little shelter/nest box where they often lay, which is filled with bedding, and which one of them occasionally goes to bed in by herself for no good reason, and they'd all got in there 😂 they looked cosy, but we moved them into the main one anyway, like we always do withP Poppy, who gets in there on her own - the main one is raised off the ground and has a door we can shut for extra protection.

Fortunately chickens are extremely docile and easy to pick up when  asleep 😂 although there was still a bit of grumbling 😂

Got carried away this evening with several hours of flute playing - I'm trying to get all the tunes into my head before the practice tomorrow. Not memorised, just a good idea of where my bits come in, as I do lose track and get left behind sometimes 😂

Tomorrow looks surprisingly busy! My local friend is popping in at 10.30 on her way into town, covid study woman is coming to do swabs at 11, and then we have other friends arriving for lunch at 12, and I'm off to band practice at 4. Busy busy!  Feeling pretty well rested today though so hopefully it will be cheerful 😊