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

Cheery_Daff

Watty1 said:

Sometimes just making the decision to do less is very freeing.

Indeed, it can be a weight off your shoulders just having one less thing to think about! 

Parcel not found 🤔 Apparently Royal Mail delivered it on Sunday. Seems unlikely, but even if they did, they certainly didn't deliver it here. Of course it's possible that a hiker on a whim came into the garden of a rural house where there was a car parked, up the steps to the closed porch, and stole a 2kg parcel (think ream of paper size) before carrying on along the footpath, but it seems unlikely...

Anyway, the company immediately ordered me a replacement! So hopefully that will arrive as planned. And who knows, maybe the other one will turn up, delivered to the wrong house (our postcode does take you elsewhere, but both houses are labelled and we normally get the right post, so...).

Very mysterious. Anyway, good customer service this morning. They are the same company that had to refund the delivery fee they'd mistakenly charged me the other day, so while their customer service agents seem on it and good, it would be better if they didn't have to keep sorting problems out!

peb

Royal mail so deliver on a Sunday, I was surprised when one of our usual posties turned up (and apologised for her having to work on a Sunday - so unnecessary).   

I only use companies who use Royal mail otherwise things end up delivered to goodness knows where

Greying_Pilgrim

peb said:

I only use companies who use Royal mail otherwise things end up delivered to goodness knows where

It depends on your posties and where you are I think peb.  We had a parcel left outside - just as Storm Kathleen was brewing 🙄- no knock on the door (we were home), no note through the door to let us know it had been left - despite other envelopes being delivered.  It was only chance DH found it on the Sunday afternoon (ie over 24hrs later) when he was putting something in the wheelie bin.  The (paper) padded envelope was sopping wet, splattered with dirt and debris 🙁 It was a miracle that the contents - 2 things of which could have been ruined by getting wet - remained unscathed. Our parcel wasn't 'something from the big river company', it was a parcel from a friend.  Sure, in theory compensation could have been sought, but that's not the point.  Had we known the parcel was there, it wouldn't have been damaged in the storm.

RM aren't the company that they once were, and I no longer seek out companies that use them for deliveries.  Their '48hr' delivery is a joke.  We're in an urban area, stuff from 30-50miles away can take anything up to 5 days to arrive, although 3 days is more usual.  

Greying X

EssexHebridean

You do you on the tooth front Cheery - and let's face it, the option you are going with is definitely the more MSE one isn't it! Plenty of folk get on perfectly well with some form of denture after all, so here's hoping you will be one of them! 

You have just reminded me although I opened up the spare account ready for switching, so far I have neither put any money in it OR actually sorted out where I am switching to! Really ought to crack on with that before the offers all get pulled or made more complicated than I am willing to give brain-space to! (Actually, blast, I think the offer I was looking at HAS been pulled - the only one showing now is FD which of course I can't do! That will teach me to procrastinate!)

catclaires

You have such a lovely and peaceful looking view! Loving the idea of the swing seat - even if it wasn't in the sun  

I was surprised to see snow on the tops of the hills this morning - must be from the random hail/sleet storms we had yesterday! 

themadvix

Just catching up Cheery - I've been reading but not posting too much lately!

Excellent news about Mr Cheery's new band - I bet he's pleased to have been asked!

Lovely view too Will you buy a couple of tomato plants or similar from a garden centre? Not the same hassle as growing from scratch, but still with the benefits of home grown deliciousness?

Cheery_Daff

themadvix said:

Just catching up Cheery - I've been reading but not posting too much lately!

Excellent news about Mr Cheery's new band - I bet he's pleased to have been asked!

Lovely view too Will you buy a couple of tomato plants or similar from a garden centre? Not the same hassle as growing from scratch, but still with the benefits of home grown deliciousness?

Nope, and I will try to avoid being given them 😂 I don't like tomatoes 😂 every year I'm given some, keep them vaguely alive generating a lot of guilt, feed them to Mr Cheery who doesn't remotely appreciate their home grown ness. Not this year! 😂

EssexHebridean

*Makes mental note to secretly send Cheery a couple of tomato seedlings in the post and then deny all knowledge*

Cheery_Daff

EssexHebridean said:

*Makes mental note to secretly send Cheery a couple of tomato seedlings in the post and then deny all knowledge*

Don't you even dare think about it!! 😱😱😂😂

I'd day I'd throw them straight on the compost but I know full well I'd end up keeping them and cursing them for the whole summer 😂

themadvix

Haha, that seems entirely reasonable! Funnily enough the 'homegrown deliciousness' was definitely me chanelling others' opinions - I don't like tomatoes in their raw form either! 😂 However, I am growing cherry toms for Mr MV, who does appreciate them I think, and big plum jobs (on a determinate plant, so nothing too complicated support-wise needed) with the aim of making and bottling tomato sauce. I don't have a great track record with tomatoes though, so we'll see how it goes!