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

Jessy103

Have a lovely break! x

Cheery_Daff

We made it! 😃😃 Our little cottage is lovely, and our friends spotted us coming up the road in the car 😂 It was SO lovely to see them, it's been two years! 😱 

Had a good tour of their homestead, met chickens, ducks, sheep and goats 🥰🥰 I've heard what they've been doing of course, and seen pictures, but there's nothing like seeing it in person. Had a lovely evening in their caravan catching up. 

Not entirely sure why I'm narrating the holiday - out of habit more than anything else 🙄😂 Might try to have a proper no Internet day tomorrow,so feel free to shoo me out if you spot me!

rtandon27

A pre-emptive SHOO sent your way! Have a lovely relaxing time!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks RT! 😊 Having a lovely time indeed 😊

Spent a slightly soggy morning pottering in friend's garden with her and the chickens 🥰 then we went to a local town to potter round there. Money spent in cafe, and Mr Cheery bought supplemental supplies and our friends came round to ours for tea, which was a nice novelty- they rarely go out in the evenings, and we don't usually invite people to a holiday cottage for tea 😂 They're only about 300 yards up the road, if that 😂 I'm sat in our garden at the minute and can hear their cockerel 😂😂

We spent a fortune on stocking up on the way here. We were tired and slightly grumpy when we got off the ferry and stopped for supplies, which is never a good sign. Consequently it was a bit like supermarket sweep, and we spent about £140 😱 Obviously we're only here 3 days so the vast majority of that will be coming back home with us 🙄

Not spending much else though. Treated friend to a cake in the cafe yesterday, and we're off to the seaside today so will probably do the same again, but that's it. 

I bought some make up in B00ts in town yesterday (just replacing normal stuff, not holiday spends) - a nice shop assistant gave me a voucher for €15 off €30 and it was 3 for 2, so while the foundation I wanted cost €18.99, I also got mascara and lipstick (worth an extra of €28) and paid a grand total of €19.98. Didnt need those right now, but they'll get added to the stash, and for less than €1 extra I couldn't say no.

Also checked Mr Cheery's TCB account and realised the account it's linked to is the one we're using while here, so we've withdrawn the available £37.12 and will add to May's extra dosh total when it arrives. 

Happy wheel is down £60 but I'm not doing it while I'm here, so it'll stay down - so that'll offset the overall dosh total. Mildly annoying but there we are. Now waiting for:

£37.12 TCB
£25 1Poll payout
£185 each S@ntand3r switch

= £432.12 although clearly most of that will arrive in June now.

Right, we are getting picked up for our seaside trip in an hour so I'd best get on with breakfast (to the sound of a cuckoo and some distant bleating from friend's goats 😂)

Watty1

Holiday sounds wonderful  Enjoy seaside.

themadvix

It sounds like you're having a lovely time Cheery! I wouldn't stress about the food shop - as you say, most will come home with you and you're on holiday - it's nice to have a break from worrying about the food budget and just buy what you fancy sometimes.

Enjoy the seaside!

LadyWithAPlan

That’s a big shop for 3 days unless you buying champagne ?! 

As you say holiday food spend - all bets are off as we all buy extra stuff as a treat 

Cheery_Daff

LadyWithAPlan said:

That’s a big shop for 3 days unless you buying champagne ?! 

As you say holiday food spend - all bets are off as we all buy extra stuff as a treat 

Ha, no champagne, but we did buy a reasonable amount of booze including as presents for our friends. Probably almost €50 on booze I'd say. And we'll be going home with a pile of 'normal' things like noodles, halloumi etc. Bought some holiday stuff we wouldn't normally buy (like granola) which will last ages, so some indulgences, but really just more than we needed, especially as we've been out at lunchtime every day. We have cooked for our friends 2 nights in a row though so that's used up a fair bit! Last night Mr Cheery did an excellent buffet of various leftovers from the night before plus a couple of pizzas. 

Food is definitely more expensive here though, and we were in t3sc0 rather than our usual Mr A so that made a difference. 

Hey ho. The sun is shining today and we are abandoning our friends for a few hours for a trip to Donegal 😊 we'll set off shortly so we can be back mid afternoon to spend our last evening with them, and we set off home tomorrow. It's been a lovely week but quite sociable and intense, definitely need a quiet weekend when we're back!

rtandon27

Haha - recovery time resonates with me Cheery!  Last Saturday we went on a group 'field trip' to tour a local-ish Abbey Church - it was full on & a lot of fun socializing, but I spent the rest of the holiday weekend recovering from the intensity of it!  I have only myself to blame though as I did the organizing 🤣🤣🤣

So lovely to hear you are having a good time & eating ALL the things - sometimes it's nice to abandon our regular routine & that includes eating!

Cheery_Daff

Well, we are wending our merry way home and are currently on the ferry, having spent our final euros on a cuppa. Mr Cheery has a comfy chair and I am sat outside getting quite windswept - now we've passed the port I might head in though, not least because of the number of car alarms going off! 🙄😂

Going to extend our holiday slightly by staying again with the friends we stayed with on the way here 😂 Means our drive tonight is shorter, and we get home when it's not dark tomorrow. 

Will do a final tally of spends once I'm back. I did check the bank this morning. Mr Cheery's pension is in, but no sign of 1Poll, or either of the seta of bank switch cash, so May will look like a relatively lean month in terms of extra dosh, especially once I've taken off the minus amount of MB earnings 🙄 But hopefully June will be off to a good start!