Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like a good, achievable aim to me! 😊

KajiKita

Managed to shift the files, but there is more and more stuff that needs a home and I’m running out of room. Think some more of the outdoor cushions (that we have never actually used) can head off to the charity shop. I think a shelf divider of the type that Windermere-land sell might be a good idea - I shall do some rummaging. 

I’m also getting into what I would call the turgid stuff - you know, the bit where every piece of paper needs a decision …. 🙄🤷‍♀️

KK

Cheery_Daff

Urgh, yes, I know that turgid feeling 🙄 sounds like you're doing a grand job though!

KajiKita

Cheery_Daff said:

Urgh, yes, I know that turgid feeling 🙄 sounds like you're doing a grand job though!

Getting there, but it’s enough for tonight. 

I need to start on bits and pieces in the living room next, ready for the big wall demolition, probably not this weekend (neither of us are well enough atm to do it next weekend!) but the BH weekend. I will try to clear my side table tomorrow night.

KK

KajiKita

Picked my first cucumber this year! Finally!! Only a baby one (90g) but it was starting to feel like an impossibility 😉
It’s getting darker and darker to water the greenhouse first thing - I’m going to need a torch soon …. 😳🤷‍♀️
Slept well, best for almost a week but am still going to ring the surgery today to try to get an appointment with the GP to discuss these recurrent UTIs - debilitating and depressing. 

Forgot to mention last night - I also managed to pot up two languishing specimens of plant life:
- some mint cuttings that had come from the Border of Doom, been rooted in a glass on the kitchen windowsill and are now in a good pot on the steps to the back door, where I can keep an eye on them! 

- a hugely tall, skinny sunflower that was still in its original 3” pot (ahem) …. Mr KK was muttering about ‘staging an intervention’, so I have planted that deep in an old clematis pot so it can root from the stem, with a stake and put that back in the conservatory as I don’t think the poor thing will cope with any wind outside at all. It could be quite fun if it flowers in the house 😉😊

KK

Merlin's_Beard

Hopefully the GP can help - I think a relative had similar and she was prescribed topical oestrogen which did wonders so fingers crossed.

Hurray for the cucumber but not for the nights drawing in. If summer could last a bit longer I'd be happy.

Rach273

I can't help with the UTIs, just sympathy and kudos that you manage to work through them!

I can commiserate with you on the cucumbers though. My cucumber plant is sulking and I have no idea why. I thought I had cracked it after a disastrous year last year (when everything i picked was far too bitter to eat) I have had quite a small but chunky cucumbers in June and July, but now everything just yellows and dies whilst still tiny despite plenty of feed and religious watering.
Maybe next year will be third time lucky?

badmemory

I believe acidopholus (sp) works for some people.

KajiKita

badmemory said:

I believe acidopholus (sp) works for some people.

Thank you. I’ve done some reading around and ordered some. I hope they help. 

It’s good to have the option as I think the GP might refuse the topical oestrogen as I am already on a high dose of HRT. 

KK

KajiKita

The boiler part has arrived and was due to be fitted today but the plumber hadn’t noticed that the gas valve had been upgraded so the new part was completely incompatible. The earliest we will get hot water now is Friday. *If* we are lucky and this first part we are trying fixes the issue. Sigh ….. Showering in work again tomorrow again then …. Gah! 

KK