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

beanielou

Also love dads and tulips. Lucky you. 🤗

rtandon27

Daffs at this time of year are so joyous! Little burst of sunshine - especially on these dull dreary days!

themadvix

Mine weren’t free, but I am enjoying two bunches of daffodils that had been reduced (for no obvious reason) to 29p each - nothing like their sunny faces to cheer a gloomy February Friday (not that you need us to tell you that Cheery Daff!)

Cheery_Daff

I do indeed love a cheery daff 😁😁

Managed to proper twist my ankle yesterday afternoon, just after my last post 🙄 I'd been sat curled up, sitting on my foot, which had gone numb. Then I tried to walk across the living room, couldn't feel where my foot was, and managed to trip over myself 🙄 fortunately didn't fall, or even spill my tea 😂 but my ankle was very sore.

No loss of movement though, and no bruising. It's been a bit tender today and it's quite swollen. Mr C has tried to persuade me to the walk in centre, but as I have no loss of movement, no bruise, and no real pain, that seemed bit overkill, especially when the sun was shining and I wanted to be in the garden 😁 So I've been slowly pottering outside, and am now sat with it raised and a bag of frozen peas on it. Will reconsider tomorrow if necessary but I really don't think I've done anything other than sprain it.

Had a couple of hours outside in the sunshine, so lovely 😍 I've lopped the top off a few more mole hills 🙄 and I've also removed the stones from round the edge of one of the four square veg beds. I made the veg plot in lockdown, it's cheerful to look at but far too much path and takes toomuch messing about so I'm going with long allotment-style beds this year. Need to dig all the stones out though - they're making an edge for the cut flower bed round the edge of the veg plot 😊

I'm filling them with the mole Hills when they appear 😂 and with the scrapings from tidying up the drive the other day. Once all the stones are out of the veg patch I'll be mulching, probably with some home made compost and some old hay.

Cheery_Daff

Right, Mr C is off out for the evening, and having just nodded off on the sofa for 20 minutes I am in need of a list!

5.45-7 HOUSE & FOOD

⭐ fetch washing in off the line

⭐ get some veg chopped up and in the oven - I'm fancying a roasted dinner of some kind

⭐ cleaning podcasts! Very quick whizz round living room, bathroom, kitchen/dining room/study/craft room

⭐ change sheet & pillowcases (I did the duvet cover yesterday 😂)

7-8 FLUTE

⭐ full hour, plenty to practice!

8-9 ADMIN

⭐ finish sorting the cash book

⭐ spreadsheets & bank transfers

⭐ blog posts

⭐ maybe sort photos for photo book

9 ONWARDS

⭐ back on the sofa with a film, I think!

That'll do, especially with my inadequate foot. Might have to ring my mum at some point too.

greenbee

I'm impressed. I give up around 6ish after feeding the animals and attempting to sort out food for myself!

Cheery_Daff

DDon't be too impressed, I'm an hour in and all I've done is fetch the washing inside 😂

rtandon27

Hopefully you are now sat on the sofa with a movie! What else are Saturdays for?

Cheery_Daff

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81885072#Comment_81885072

Catching up on all the things that didn't get done in the week, I think! 😂

Anyway, getting there 😬

5.45-7 HOUSE & FOOD

✅ fetch washing in off the line

✅ get some veg chopped up and in the oven - I'm fancying a roasted dinner of some kind - (made curry and rice in the end - got two portions in the fridge too)

✅ rang mum

✅ cleaning podcasts! Very quick whizz round living room, bathroom, kitchen/dining room/study/craft room

⭐ change sheet & pillowcases (I did the duvet cover yesterday 😂)

7-8 FLUTE

✅ full hour, plenty to practice!

8-9 ADMIN

⭐ finish sorting the cash book

⭐ spreadsheets & bank transfers

⭐ blog posts

⭐ maybe sort photos for photo book

9 ONWARDS

⭐ back on the sofa with a film, I think!

😬 Still, downstairs looks a LOT better, and I've been radiator dancing all evening so the washing is almost dry. Enjoyed my cleaning podcast 😂 going to do another tomorrow for stuff like hoovering and dusting which I didn't get round to today.

Just going to sit down now. Might make a start on a blog post but no longer than 15 minutes I don't think. Yawn!

Cheery_Daff

Evening MSE chums 😊

Popping in to report that the house insurance renewal has finally arrived - and comes in at an eye-watering £1163 😱😱

I took last year's increase from £7xx to £932 out of convenience, but to add another £231 on top of that, at a time when insurance premiums are meant to have REDUCED, is just taking the mickey. Nothing has changed in that time, and we have NEVER claimed on any house insurance for anything.

Sorry John Lewis, but however much I hate messing about with insurance comparisons, an increase of over £400 in 2 years is a step too far! 😱 Cheeky blighters!