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

KajiKita

How lovely to have new neighbours who want to be friendly. Hope that goes well … 🤞

Well done on the hay box progress and your halo 😇 shineth brightly after the LPG email! It will be interesting to see their repo see to that one … 😉

KK

Cheery_Daff

Thanks @KajiKita I imagine I'll get an ineffectual response only answering half my questions (if that) like i did to my last email 🙄 😂

Nice day but gosh it was rather windy last night!

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, some exciting news! My persistence has paid off and the tyres people have agreed to pay 50% refund for the stupidity of their driver reversing onto our lawn and getting stuck 😊😊😊

So that's £90 rather than £18 - not a massive amount for them but very pleasing. I'll be trying to give at least a decent chunk of it to the farmer (although I suspect he'll try equally hard to refuse it 😂)

No specific tactic from me, I just kept saying 'if you're happy with the service you've provided, please pay the 10% at your earliest convenience' 😂 clearly they weren't!

rtandon27

Haha @Cheery_Daff - I just love your 'non-tactic'!

Tescodealqueen

Result🙂😁😁😄

beanielou

Most excellent. 

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all - I've never had much success with this type of thing so I'm pleased! Probably helped that they closed the case before Christmas without even paying what they'd offered me... 

So, now I need to add to the list:
* send bank details to tyre people
* finish drafting LPG email

Neither of these things will be done tonight though.

We just cooked our first tea in the garden 😊😊😊 nothing fancy, we just have a frying pan over a little wood stove, but it's SO nice to be outside watching the sky darken 😊😊😊

Greying_Pilgrim

Bravo Cheery 👏 I greatly admire your tenacity - it's the principle of the thing, but that compensation is a much better acknowledgement of their wrongdoing.  I suspect you won't get the farmer to accept a share of it either 😁 but that won't stop you trying 😁

Greying X

KajiKita

Result!! 👏👏👏👏🤩
And love the idea of you cooking tea in the garden ❤️

KK

rtandon27

RE: The Farmer - how about cash in an envelope pressed into his had with a sincere thank-you for all his help while looking him in the eye?  Nothing like a bit of feminine fawning to put a stop to his 'no's'.  😂 ...and before you ask, yes I've used feminine fawning with the farmhand & gardener when we were still on the farm where OH failed with his gruff manly ways.