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

themadvix

They release the big winners’ regions and prizes on the 1st, but the app doesn’t get the details till the 2nd. Whether you find out today if you’re one of the big winners is the question we all want to know the answer to!

Cheery_Daff

No million for me, unfortunately! 

They've done the draw, and released a list of high value winners, but you can't usually search for your number on the website until the next day. 

If you want to trawl through this list though, you can see if you've won one of the big prizes (I stopped after £100k - will save some mystery for tomorrow 😂)

https://www.nsandi.com/prize-checker/winners

Lauraebrad

Love the dandylions roaring in your garden.  They're roaring all over mine too - much to the pollinators' delight!

Humdinger1

So glad that you've run the root cause of poorliness to ground Cheery and that you're feeling better! Well done on getting the promotions form in.  Take care please.   Love Humdinger xx 

Cheery_Daff

Thank you 😊 @Lauraebrad I love dandelion time! 

Adventures today. Off to meet a friend for lunch - we're meeting at a nature reserve with a cafe. It's a bit of a hike for both of us. My car is misbehaving so I don't want to do a long trip, Mr C stayed out at a friend's house last night, so I'm getting on a bus for the first time in quite a while to retrieve the car. Exciting! Have brought my crochet to do ont the bus 😃

themadvix

Have fun Cheery - a bus adventure sounds fun too. Anything sounds fun to me currently - I'm listening to an HMRC webinar about Making Tax Digital... I know how to have fun! 😂

Cheery_Daff

Ha, yes I'm certainly having a more fun day than you if that's what you're doing 😂😂

Bus trip was cheerful, lovely to go through some of the little villages and see over the hedges into people's gardens 😂 and I'd forgotten about the £3 bus far cap, so that was nice. It will actually go to my new office - I hadn't really considered a bus commute (because I hadn't realised there was one early enough in the morning, and because I'd still have to drive to the local town).

All the options are a bit rubbish though for my new office.

* drive into the city centre - £7.50 parking and I'll get stuck in traffic if I don't leave by 7am

* drive and park near friend's house - free, but it's a half hour walk each way

* drive 12 miles then train - train is only 15 mins, one an hour but also £7.50

* drive to train, cycle 12 (hilly) miles, then get the train back to car later

* drive to local town, get this bus, £3 each way, only 2 or 3 a day though

Or get a new job, or a new house, I guess 😂😂

In reality I'll likely do a combination of all these, and sometimes Mr C will come in with me and drop me off. 

Right, off bus, have got car keys from Mr C (had a peek into his band practice - don't envy him in that dark sweaty room all day!), best set off!

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff said:

...Or get a new job, or a new house, I guess 😂😂...

Winning the lottery is an option!😉

themadvix

Webinar was a complete waste of time - they could have distilled it into 15 mins instead of an hour. Although judging by the endless repeated questions in the comments box, apparently others need it spelled out multiple times!

Bus journey sounds fun - you do see more from up in a bus!

Those options do all sound pretty dire - not sure I fancy the 12 mile hilly cycle and then a day at work!

Ramouth

Cheery_Daff said:

Ha, yes I'm certainly having a more fun day than you if that's what you're doing 😂😂

Bus trip was cheerful, lovely to go through some of the little villages and see over the hedges into people's gardens 😂 and I'd forgotten about the £3 bus far cap, so that was nice. It will actually go to my new office - I hadn't really considered a bus commute (because I hadn't realised there was one early enough in the morning, and because I'd still have to drive to the local town).

All the options are a bit rubbish though for my new office.

* drive into the city centre - £7.50 parking and I'll get stuck in traffic if I don't leave by 7am

* drive and park near friend's house - free, but it's a half hour walk each way

* drive 12 miles then train - train is only 15 mins, one an hour but also £7.50

* drive to train, cycle 12 (hilly) miles, then get the train back to car later

* drive to local town, get this bus, £3 each way, only 2 or 3 a day though

Or get a new job, or a new house, I guess 😂😂

In reality I'll likely do a combination of all these, and sometimes Mr C will come in with me and drop me off. 

Right, off bus, have got car keys from Mr C (had a peek into his band practice - don't envy him in that dark sweaty room all day!), best set off!

Can I add an option?  

Drive to outskirts of work town where there is free parking, cycle in last few miles

As I don’t know the town I have no idea if this is feasible- perhaps not and that’s why it wasn’t on your list