Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 farmer is about the same age as me and not really that gruff so I think fawning might be inappropriate 😂 Might just shove it through the door with instructions to treat his wife and daughter though - I don't think he'd go so far as actively bringing it back 😂 

rtandon27

🤣🤣🤣 A bit of fawning never went astray - just saying - farmhand was my OH's age but gardener was my age! - Leaving instructions is always a good route to go!

Cheery_Daff

Day 2 of my training plan (for the back to back races I'm doing one weekend in June) 😬 Yesterday I did a home workout, today I got up and went to the gym 😃 (this is MSE related - we pay for couple's membership and barely go - last month my four swims cost £16.65 each 😬). 

Remembered why I don't go to the gym before work - because I faff about so much I'm only just making a cuppa to start work 😬😂

Greying_Pilgrim

Good grief Cheery 'tis like entering a TV adaptation of a D H Lawrence novel on your thread!  All this talk of swarthy, taciturn, brooding farmhands & gardeners........... phwoarrr, 🤣🤣🤣  I've gone over all faint with a touch of the vapours..........  🤣🤣🤣 

Greying X [off to lie down on a day bed, with a damp linen hankerchief on my head, in a darkened room....]

KajiKita

Greying_Pilgrim said:

Good grief Cheery 'tis like entering a TV adaptation of a D H Lawrence novel on your thread!  All this talk of swarthy, taciturn, brooding farmhands & gardeners........... phwoarrr, 🤣🤣🤣  I've gone over all faint with a touch of the vapours..........  🤣🤣🤣 

Greying X [off to lie down on a day bed, with a damp linen hankerchief on my head, in a darkened room....]

You forgot the smelling salts ....! <passes bottle> 

 

KK

Cheery_Daff

Good grief! I should like to point out that it's RT batting her eyelashes and showing her ankles, not me!!

Cheery_Daff

Right. Lots of work done today (although not much of the Big Task that I had intended to work on). And a productive evening too

• sent the bank account details for the tyre refund
• spent forever editing the LPG email with Mr C. We got more cross the more we did it, so now instead of asking for a discount, we've told them we don't think we're liable for their invoice at all, since the work we agreed to turned out not to be necessary, they did extra work without consulting us (and sent us a 'quotation' several days later), and they've tried to pass the whole lot off as being 'mandated' by the government when I can find literally no evidence of that at all. 

I've told them I'm not happy with the way it's been handled and want it treated as a complaint so we'll see what they say to that. 

That took so long that it's gone dark  and I've just realised the washing is still on the line - best go and retrieve it! 

At work tomorrow, and annoyingly I don't have a parking permit. Still, that does mean a bit of walking and exercise is a good thing, especially in the sunshine. I've booked my first ever sports massage early evening, trying to fix my dodgy shoulder, so it'll be a long day...  

KajiKita

Not a bad shout to start at a complete rejection of the gas company’s position, you can always row back from that. I wonder if that’s why you struggled to finalise your email, because a compromise position ‘just didn’t sit right’ …?

Hope the massage is relaxing 😊

KK

greenbee

Sports massage and relaxing? 🤣

I hope it helps... 

Cheery_Daff

KajiKita said:

Not a bad shout to start at a complete rejection of the gas company’s position, you can always row back from that. I wonder if that’s why you struggled to finalise your email, because a compromise position ‘just didn’t sit right’ …?

Hope the massage is relaxing 😊

KK

Yes, possibly.  I'm a complete pushover, but do all the household admin. Mr C is more belligerent, but approaches admin like a cat approaching a bath 😂 Normally this just causes arguments, but on this occasion we actually managed to work together for once! 

To be fair if their invoice had come in a couple of hundred quid under their original quote, I would have just paid it, and wouldn't have delved further into the legalities. However, it was only about £31 under (on a bill of around £900) and when I queried it, they insisted the second lot of work was also mandated, even though they hadn't quoted for it originally. Smacks of them making an initial mistake, then trying to recoup some of their costs 🤔 

I am very fair minded, but they are taking the p1s5!