An in-between phase

PennysIntoPounds

We are very much leaning towards nice big parasol @foxgloves 😂

foxgloves

Defo. And with the money saved on not buying an awning, you can treat yourselves to a set of parasol fairy lights.

Watty1

parasol fairy lights?? Off to google another want not need

foxgloves

@Watty1 - I only know about these because I once bought a heavily reduced set in error, thinking it was the usual single string. Turned out to be a set for a parasol with several 'arms' of lights coming off a central point to fit the underside of a parasol. I kept them as only a very few quid & I only bought them as fairy lights to go in a big glass vase.

TallGirl

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82123306#Comment_82123306

I am so with you on the awning quote I have had two so far the first one great and ok price but the second just did not suggest anything and only wanted to sell one option. He even offered an inferior fabric choice when I asked about the PVC option that would take months to get! I also had to say I had seen the model I was interested in on their manufacturers website and I had to quote him the number. I have a last one coming tomorrow so fingers crossed. My sister had a huge brolly which she swears by and it is quite cool I must say.

PennysIntoPounds

Cripes, definitely don't go with second one @TallGirl, that sounds like a world of unnecessary pain! Do report back if anything proves satisfactory. Tbh we've got a bit sick of spending money and dealing with tradespeople so it was good to enquire but unless any of them come up with a brilliant idea for an excellent price, we're parasoling it

PennysIntoPounds

I have been in a knackered grump for most of the day, partly hormonal and partly because why isn't this effing build finished and signed off yet, it's like death by a thousand cuts, with a letter missing from cuts

The big job for the day was sorting out four different change of addresses for five different forms. Bejesus, it was like working out a particularly inbred bureaucratic family tree
Usuals
Small spec work
Entered some competitions
Received a free laundry detergent to review
Steps getting toiletries at best price
Little bit of cleaning

beanielou

Hopefully the end must be in sight.

PennysIntoPounds

Hopefully @beanielou but that's what we've thought for the last half a decade about the million multifaceted aspects of this pure nonsense. I feel like I cannot relax and enjoy our home and get on with our lives, it is not impacting well on wellbeing.

PennysIntoPounds

Don't want to be a moaner though so we do have some fairy lights, which improve everything, and an mse heatpump, and a fern and an olio lantern 😊