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

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 you lot and your YNAB sales pitch

Cheery_Daff

Just popping in with car-related costs so far this week: 

£25 × 2 excess call out fee for older cars
£80 car hire
£139 insurance excess
£312 new radiator for little car

=£582 😬

We returned the hire van this morning, no problems thank goodness so we'll get back our £200 deposit 🙄 Still don't entirely understand their complex fuel system - we paid for some upfront so will either get some back, or we'll be charged a little. We paid £8 upfront, and only drove about 80 miles i think. 

We took it back a day early - because we paid online upfront we won't get any of the actual hire cost back, but we will get a day of the insurance excess back (£35). Better than nothing.

No word from the garage about the other car yet. Little one was booked in on Wednesday but we've got that back already, so I'm expecting them to deal with big one on Wednesday instead, although I realise they may have bumped someone else to make room for us on Friday so it may be later. Will ring tomorrow and check their plans. 

Mr C Snr is having a bit of a palaver with his medication and his doctors surgery is worse than useless so Mr C is heading over tomorrow.

Not much else to report I don't think!

Cheery_Daff

Morning chums, and a lovely sunny autumnal one it is too 😊

Hire car place have refunded me £254.99 which I think is £200 deposit, £35 insurance, and... £19.99 for what? We paid £8 upfront for fuel, and didn't put any more in. Maybe they've refunded us for part of the actual van hire, although they did say they wouldn't do that because we paid online. We took it back at 11.45am, and our hire ended at 12pm the following day, so perhaps that extra 15 minutes gave us some additional percentage of refund?? I might have got up earlier if I'd known!

Anyway, not complaining, and I'm not going to ring to ask 😂 That takes the total actually spent on car shenanigans back down a bit. To £527.

Spoke to garage yesterday, other car should be ready today, but they'll let us know at lunchtime. Don't want to drive over if it's not going to be ready so I'll work at home this morning and wait to hear, then if we do get it, I might stay in the office for the next few hours. Or if it's not, we'll just go in tomorrow. 

Another leaving do last night, for my lovely boss. Only spent £5. It wasn't a big drinking night, and Mr C picked me up about 8. Between that and a work event in the day I did a LOT of talking though, throat is quite sore now and I'm very thirsty! 

rtandon27

@Cheery_Daff - fixing the old ones is still cheaper than buying new cars!  That's the logic I use with ours, which still costs less to run than my annual train pass costs!

I'd not have woken up earlier - 🤣 - mornings and I do not get along! - That being said I'm on an early morning meeting atm being run out of Berlin - they are all on their second coffee, I'm still on my first!

Baileys_Babe

@Cheery_Daff over on foxgloves thread you said the temperature in your home had been about 12°c recently. We too live in an old cold stone house, we have been running the dehumidifier which has brought the humidity down and the temperature up, it is now much more comfortable. I was wondering if using a dehumidifier at our house would improve things.

fannyadams

Baileys_Babe said:

@Cheery_Daff over on foxgloves thread you said the temperature in your home had been about 12°c recently. We too live in an old cold stone house, we have been running the dehumidifier which has brought the humidity down and the temperature up, it is now much more comfortable. I was wondering if using a dehumidifier at our house would improve things.

I was amazed at how much heat the dehumidifier kicks out when it's on. We've got one in our room of doom to keep the mould levels at a resonably manageable level. We used to have a heater in there with a thermostatic socket but that was staying off because the dehumidifier heats the room up anyway.

Cheery_Daff

You're both right of course! We do often have the dehumidifier on, although not ALL the time, and not for the last few days. We have a small well in our cellar under the kitchen so we're fighting a bit of a losing battle 😂😂

Anyway, a frustrating afternoon. Had an email to say we had got through to the next stage of a project which would fund some of my time and that of several other people for a couple of years. Still work to do for the next stage but still, hooray! 

Except a couple of hours later we had a second email to say the first was a mistake, and we had in fact been rejected 😱

Rejections are always hard (although expected in my line of work) but to be told yay and then nay in quick succession does feel rather like a slap with a wet fish 🙄

The treats budget has been raided and cake has been eaten 🙄

themadvix

Cake seems entirely reasonable after such a wet fish 🐟 That’s a very poor bit of admin by someone there. How rubbish, especially knowing how much work goes into a proposal.

Cheery_Daff

I'm trying not to be cross - I imagine it was a genuine mistake by someone who will be going home feeling very guilty tonight. At least I hope they are!! 🙄😂

KajiKita

Awww heck, that properly sucks … Definitely a wet fish slap … 🙄

Does sound like you are getting close to having two functional vehicles again though 😊

KK