Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

beanielou

I have to sat an alarm for charging my watch!

KajiKita

I tend to go old school … I have “M!” Written on the back of my hand …. 😂

KK

KajiKita

Well I tried to ring my mum at c. 8pm but she had literally only just got in after a fatality on the line causing all the trains to be cancelled and hadn’t opened her presents or anything … I could sympathise as I had to fight my way through housing estates and country lanes after a six car accident on my main route home tonight …. 😳

We have also just had the fire brigade out - Mr KK set fire to his van whilst welding a rusty bit of the sill - there was interior sound deadening insulation behind an interior panel and the exterior skin, that took and held the heat and then went up … scared him half to death! He’s okay and the van is drivable but he is pretty embarrassed. 

In other news, somehow, by the skin of our teeth, we have been declared project launch ready for next week even though I felt hugely unprepared and I had to send my quality engineer back to bed after we had thrown together and delivered the presentation to super, mega-senior managers I have never actually met before …. (there was a moment when I realised that he hadn’t pasted in one of my critical slides and I am flipping between presentations mid speech / teams call hoping it’s not too obvious … jeepers … 😂😂😂😂).

KK

redofromstart

Poor Mr KK, I did laugh but can imagine how he feels. 

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

Poor Mr KK, I did laugh but can imagine how he feels. 

I am going to help clean out his van today - wash the seat covers, fe breeze it thoroughly, clean the inside of the windows etc. He’s taking out patio doors and rebuilding a wall behind so won’t have time to do himself! 

KK

KajiKita

Heading off down to Monmouth for a bra fitting this morning (getting uncomfortable again - HRT has some weird effects!), a few bits of other shopping and then home for cleaning, tidying and cooking - trying to do more cooking at the weekends so will eat less UPF during the week. Hoping to get my head around fibre BB options this weekend too - seem to be having a mental block on that atm. 

In the meantime, as described above, Mr KK will be taking the patio doors out and filling in the gap to make a wall, in this weather ….! 😳 But he is fixed on it …. I may be living in a sou’wester by the end of the day! 😉

Tip run this afternoon which needs to be pulled together in my car followed by a Toscos delivery this afternoon.

I need to make a hard headed decision this weekend about a knitting project that I have stalled on - do I try and fix it it or do I give up and restart it ….

If I get chance in between the showers, I have plants to get in the ground in the sit spot border, lots of tidying to do and I will pick up two bags of bark to mulch the sit spot border with on the way back from the tip run. Also, have the van cleaning to do to help Mr KK - it was always fairly festering (most definitely a ‘works van’ so anything I do on it will help! 😂)

KK

themadvix

I know all about sound proofing not being fireproof. Driving along one day I noticed smoke coming from under the bonnet (a very small amount), so I stopped (at services) and discovered the sound proofing in the engine bay was smouldering. Had to call fire brigade too, as water wouldn’t put it out. Fireman’s verdict was it was a cigarette butt that had flicked up from the road surface. Not nice, Mr KK has my sympathy! 

South_coast

Every time you write "sit spot" my brain reads it as "spit spot" and I imagine you as a Mary Poppins figure 😀!

KajiKita

themadvix said:

I know all about sound proofing not being fireproof. Driving along one day I noticed smoke coming from under the bonnet (a very small amount), so I stopped (at services) and discovered the sound proofing in the engine bay was smouldering. Had to call fire brigade too, as water wouldn’t put it out. Fireman’s verdict was it was a cigarette butt that had flicked up from the road surface. Not nice, Mr KK has my sympathy! 

Thank you - that has made him feel a bit better 😊

South_coast said:

Every time you write "sit spot" my brain reads it as "spit spot" and I imagine you as a Mary Poppins figure 😀!

😂😂😂😂 It could save watering it … 🤔😂

KK

KajiKita

Steady but busy day, got lots done. Went down to the market town over the border from us in Wales and got two new bras in the right colour, no luck on thongs though sadly. Tried on a top in the sale but don’t like the fit, so left it - go me! 😉 On the way down there refuelled my car and picked up two slabs of baby beers for Mr KK from Lidull - he was very pleased as his baby beers from his France trip are nearly gone (I picked up some good wife points there! 😉) Did a quick run around waiting-for-rose and picked up quite a bit of yellow stickered fruit (pears, passion fruit and plums) as I am trying to eat less UPF. 

Headed back up on to our plateau via my local chemist to try and get my HRT - couldn’t get all of it but have half of it and the next half should be in next week. I asked them if I could divert these prescriptions to them permanently as farmacy2ewe don’t seem to ever have it in stock - they were happy to do that. Popped in the charity shop and found 4 paperbacks for 60p each 😊👍 I will either donate them back once I have read them or put them in the canteen windowsill ‘library’ in work. 

Got into scruffs and loaded up the car for the tip run - this cleared a lot of packing boxes from the conservatory 👏. Cleaned the downstairs loo and bathroom including bleach spray (ugh) on the mouldy black bit behind the tap on the bath. Lunch, tip run with a brief interlude in the garden centre for two bags of bark and two more plants for the SIT 😉 spot border - this spend came out of my ‘pocket money’. Failed to do any gardening due to the intense instability of the weather today. Dusted my bedroom. Changed and cleaned the water filter jug (finally used the last of my legacy stock of plastic filters, so now need to order some more of the refillable kit ones), scrubbed the kitchen sink and taps. Helped Mr KK in various ways through the day with his wall building, now that the patio doors in the lounge have been removed. Sent another £5.18 off to OP from QM33 (been a reasonable week this week). Sent two wodges of cash over to Mr KK to refund various spends he’s made for the lounge project - hopefully no more spends on this before next pay day - they have come out of my DIY budget so I am feeling okay about it. 

In the midst of all of the above, did two loads of washing and dried it in the conservatory, put away Tescos shop 😊

About to UPF to the max with a fish and chip supper! 😂😂😉

KK