Prosperous & Creative Soul & MFW Year 3

MovingForwards

Great idea for DD's birthday.

Your previous cleaner wasn't just that, which is where the struggles are coming from with your new one.

Can you group the outstanding jobs for your handyman so he's not flitting from one type of job to another eg a garden list, repairs of spindles and perhaps hanging all the pictures list, assembling/ moving furniture list etc.  There's no real structure which may explain why it's taking him a while to get through it. Don't forget he was new when starting with you and didn't have the background knowledge for ordering jobs would be done in.

Glad you got the extension, must be very hard waiting on others to return/ provide things before being able to send the review off.

savingholmes

Thanks Lucielle, Blackcats, MF and Sandy

Well I paced myself yesterday BC as I finished early! I have felt exhausted this week - but that's partly family stuff. I've also been totally overspending. Hopefully June I can get back on track. Still need to post my pension form. £450 has gone into AVCs today. £25 goes to savings tomorrow. It all helps. 

Lucielle - I need to pop in the most local shops more. I did get a leaflet through for a different handyman but it feels disloyal.

Birdsong woke me up briefly at 5. It was utterly beautiful so I forgave the wake up call.

I found a journal from nearly 3 years ago - where it listed I needed a place with a view, ,bird song and listed this place among 3 places I'd consider moving to. Just watching a robin on my two apple trees - even the one I bought bare rooted is now flowering - it then moved to the filled the coconuts to eat. I sprinkled some meal worms earlier and a blackbird is now collecting those. I'm going to download the Mrln app that some people mentioned on another thread so I can identify the birds in my garden more. I saw some type of tit at my seed feeder yesterday too.

I currently have London's burning saxifrage in flower down my back garden wall and an orange geranium that I didn't plant. I have lots of red and pink azaleas in flower and rhododendron. Pink geranium in flower. At least 6 purple / purple and white aquilegia that came with the garden plus ones I brought with me in pots - a lot of which are a burgundy or deep pink. My beesianum pink jasmine is starting to flower. Feeling blessed by the garden even if a lot is still in pots rather than in the ground.

Still need to get dressed and do a money shuffle to feed my different accounts. Best crack on!

doingitanyway

Glad your garden is generating joy 

savingholmes

Thanks DIA. Lots of rain and hail here today but still quite bright out. Because I've been working from upstairs - I get to see the landscape / cloudscape change too so even that is interesting... 

The pet sitter popped around for a meet and greet. She seemed absolutely lovely. She's going to pop in on Sunday and Monday am for £10 a time. She was great with my kitty - I showed her where the key safe was. I'll leave extra food and water out just in case something goes wrong - but hopefully it will work out and if it does - it could free me up for more trips. I hate the idea of catteries and my cat doesn't seem to like them so hopefully he'd be happier at home with a human popping by to coddle him and give him attention. Sometimes I may be able to get DD to step in but this weekend she is also due to be away.

I've chased up one person on the help with the review for the third or fourth time. I don't want them to use all my extension period though and stress me out by being last minute.

I've changed into clothes I don't mind getting paint on so I'm ready to play! I bought a white raised plaster type picture of dandelions Monday evening and I want to see if I can use acrylic pouring to create an interesting background. I also started a different picture a few weeks ago which I want to carry on working on. 

KajiKita

The art project sounds intriguing and the cat sitter sounds lovely - lucky cat 🐱 🤩😊

KK

doingitanyway

'We stop playing not because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.' (George Bernard Shaw)
Enjoy your creative play 

beanielou

Cat sitter sounds fantastic.

Blackcats

Glad the cat care person seems good.  I think it's nicer for the cat to stay at home and be waited on and fussed as usual but just by someone different to avoid inconveniencing them 🤣. When we are away the carer often sends photos of the cat and regular messages to say that all is well.  They also do extras during their visits such as water plants, put the dustbin out etc.

jwil

Glad you've found the cat sitter and hope you enjoyed the art!

skint_spice

Cat sitter sounds great, I wouldn’t like to stress mine by sending her to a cattery.