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

Fortune_Smiles

Hi Cheery.  Our boiler has had to work hard this week too.  Are your radiators hot all over?  If not, they might need bleeding.  I find it can take some time to warm the bones of the house when a cold snap comes on suddenly.  I bought a heated throw this year and it's been my best buy.  Mr F has had one for a while and finds it really helps when he's sitting still for long periods at his desk.

Hope your event goes as well as it can.

Fortune x

Cheery_Daff

Thanks Fortune. Radiators seem fine, I think as you say this is just a draughty stone farmhouse with 2 foot thick walls and needs a bit of time to warm up 😂 (ok, mostly 1 foot thick, but even so)

Anyway, we ourselves are considerably warmer after Mr Cheery decided to get in the loft and remove anything that could be considered a remote temptation for Our Friend Roland. Seven bin bags of stuff now outside - spare duvet (why was that even up there?), old fabric, curtains etc, and a single futon mattress that I've been wanting to get rid of for years. Makes literally no difference to how the inside of the house looks, and barely any difference to the loft, but feels good to have got it outside! 

Next job will be to get it to the tip - or just put it out with the rubbish over the next few weeks I suppose. Our little rural round takes 4 bags a fortnight, and we don't fill that many so plenty of scope for adding stuff.

Bags all packed for tomorrow. Breakfast ready, and in all the attic messing about I realise I forgot to make lunch 🙄 We have no bread, and I'm not cooking anything now, so it'll be a supermarket cheese butty I think. Yawn. 

Right, time for bed. Thank you for being kind to me today xx

rtandon27

Our house has been chilly as well Cheery, I've had the electric fire on to boost the warmth all day.  The rads are on full blast, but it's not warmed up the house to our liking. We've both been wearing jumpers, and using heating pads, but the only warm place is under the duvets!

Baileys_Babe

Cheery_Daff said:

Don't know what's going on with our heating today. It's been on for hours, radiators are hot, but thermostat still says it's only 12 degrees 🥶🥶🥶 I've tried increasing the reassure but that doesn't seem to have made a difference. Windows aren't open, and the radiators seem as warm as usual, so goodness knows. Maybe this is just the first time the heating had to properly work hard this year. It had best get its act together! 

Like you we live in an old stone building, the heating is taking a while to heat the fabric of the house, added to this is the shock to the system on the dramatic drop in temperature since the earlier part of the month.

Cheery_Daff

Thank you @rtandon27 and @Baileys_Babe Sorry you're both cold too! A definite shock to the system - although it looks likely to carry on for a while yet so we'll have time to get used to it 🥶 Need to figure out the timer i think - the prospect of getting out of bed with no heating on,  particularly at this ridiculous hour,  is not filling me with joy!

The only advantage of being awake this early is that I've managed to snag an octopod coffee for tomorrow 😂

themadvix

Thanks Cheery, my free hot drink reminderer- I have snagged one too!

Baileys_Babe

🤦‍♀️ doh, I was awake opening a new savings account and doing various other bits of banking and I didn't think to look for a code. I'll try and remember next time.

Enjoy your coffees ☕☕

Cheery_Daff

You'll have to set a reminder for tomorrow morning! 

This morning's event went as well as expected in the circumstances. I'm back in the office, although very tired, which doesn't bode well for the rest of the day! Just going to spend an hour doing some necessary things ready for next week, and then I'll head off to the other city so I don't get stuck in rush hour. Might see if I can find a lay-by to have a nap in! (Not likely on the motorway, unfortunately). Mind you, there's only me in the office at the minute, maybe I could sneak a small nap in here... 😬

Cheery_Daff

Well I confess this weekend hasn't felt very weekend-y! 

Lots of driving on Friday, but the evening event was fun and very festive, extremely cheerful 😊 Long day though, didn't get home til 11.30pm (left the house at 7am). 

So yesterday was a gentle one. Into one town for slimming world, home again for some pottering, then back out again with Mr C. 

Today has been another work event, cheerful and only a few hours. Met Mr C in a cafe on the way home. 

Made a swede and split pea soup in the hay box. And made a lovely sweet potato curry with rice for tea. Plenty left over so I'll take that for lunch tomorrow, and the soup can go in the freezer. 

Busy week this week. Work trip tomorrow (probably 5 hours of driving) then I'm in the normal office the following 3 days. Very ready for a rest!

beanielou

No wonder you are ready for a rest.