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

Cheery_Daff

Tescodealqueen said:

Hi cheery not sure if you have switched from c**p bank but they have a regular saver at 7% max 250 a month had my current  account there since 1977 so nice to have a reasonable savings offer

Thanks 😊 No, still with the co-op for main account (since about 1995), but I didn't know about the regular saver, thank you! Currently feeding into three in various places:

* £50 at 8%
* £200 at 5.5%
* £300 at 7%

Got a separate savings account at about 3.75% I think - would probably be worth drip feeding that into a 7% regular saver... Will do some sums, thank you for mentioning it 😊

Cheery_Daff

Cheery_Daff said:

OK, a plan for Friday! 😊

MORNING

✅ load tonne bags of ivy into the car (can I fit two of them into a 3 door Yaris?? I guess we'll find out! 😂)

✅ solo cafe trip for plotting and scheming and reading a new book 😊😊

✅ ivy to the tip

✅ nip to zero waste shop in town - something I used to do very often, but their opening times are slightly odd and I often miss them, and they're not in an area of town I usually walk through, but these are all excuses and we are generating too much plastic, so I'm going to make an effort.

AFTERNOON

✅ shift rest of cut hay from field to windbreak area. The curlews are back, so no more cutting for me - what's not cut will have to wait for the end of summer.

* more work in the front garden - might build myself a little bench from some pallets for the little terrace 😊 It gets the sun first thing (when there is any 😂😂) so it's a nice place to sit with a morning cuppa, and slightly less exposed than the swing seat.

* later on I'd like to go for a walk/tentative run, probably by myself and just from the front door, not driving anywhere

EVENING

* financial admin - check the bank payment went through and has been in there for 24 hours - if so, withdraw and transfer to Mr Cheery's new account. There's a bill to pay too.

* open the post! There's been a build up this week, mostly connected with the bank switch, but it all needs opening properly and filing.

* bit of tidying - I started sorting some clothes baskets the other day so will finish that, plus 15 mins in the study I think, those shelves are looking quite stuffed...

* finish sewing Mr Cheery's hat while watching a film

* maybe a bath...

Sounds like a nice, cheerful and productive day for me! 😊

Well, some of those things got done! 😂😂

Had a lovely cafe trip, went to the zero waste shop, then Mr Cheery rang and asked if I was still at the cafe... Nope, but I ended up going to the tip then BACK to the cafe, and we spent a happy hour sat huddled up outside in blankets out of the car because there was no room inside 😂 So quite a leisurely start to the day! And not particularly MSE, although aside from toast for me we only had drinks.

One tonne bag of ivy taken, plus another of cardboard, which I'd forgotten we'd filled the other day, and which had since been rained on 🙄 Usually I can lose any amount of cardboard in the garden, but this was all relatively small oddly shaped boxes we'd brought shopping home in, and which had sat going mouldy in the coal shed for months 🙄 Would have taken a LOT of messing to lay it all out and cover it, so to the tip it went. Picked up a couple of bags of municipal compost while I was there.

Spent the afternoon shifting hay (well, long sodden cut grass) from the field to the edible windbreak, and then starting the process of turning my willow dome into an actual dome, which I should really have done last year.

Pegged some washing out and it nearly dried, just propped on the airer overnight and it should be done.

Tired now! Think I'll move straight to the bath stage of the evening 😂

It's been quite breezy today, so I amused myself by taking pictures of the washing blowing about 😂

themadvix

Oh how lovely that your  dump sells the compost!

And you even manage to take a pretty photo of washing on the line! 😂

beanielou

i love washing on the line. 

Cheery_Daff

Ha, I am SO grateful for my lovely washing line with its glorious views 🥰🥰 We didn't have a garden big enough at the old house - I occasionally propped an airer outside but stopped after the old lady over the road once knocked to say my underwear was in the street 🙈😂

A washing line was one of my must haves when we moved 😁

Have to be careful with this one though - washing can sail quite a long way if not adequately pegged 😂

Baileys_Babe

One place we lived didn't have a washing line so I used to use the airer outside weighed down with sacks of coal and the washing pegged to the airer do it didn't blow away 🤣

rtandon27

When we lived in the converted hop kiln, I'd only peg out underwear on days the farmhand and gardener were not around! Otherwise it got hung up in the boiler/laundry/toilet room with the dehumidifier going! They were a bit rough and ready and said some pretty rude things when they thought I was out of ear shot - lol - they forgot how far sound travels in the countryside!

Cheery_Daff

😂😂 you lot! 😂😂 Very grateful for my normal washing line now (and that if my underwear takes off of its own accord, it will likely only startle a cow (or someone on the footpath, of course 🙈😂)

So, a plan for tomorrow. I am very excited as we have a new Library of Things locally, and in a bid to support it, tomorrow I am lending a steam cleaner 😂😂 I have never even seen one, and don't have much idea what I'll do with it, other than try to get the grubbing off the kitchen floor, which I hold very little hope of it doing as even specialist chemicals have refused to shift it. 

Anyway, do tell me about your steam cleaner adventures! What do I need to know? What can I clean?! I'm slightly concerned that anything I touch will disintegrate 😂

We are due rain and windiness, so it's definitely more of an indoor day. So, a vague plan...

MORNING

* fill another bag with ivy (it's already cut)
* tip,and try to remember another 50p for another bag of compost - they didn't have any change yesterday
* collect steam cleaner
* attempt to clean kitchen floor...

AFTERNOON

* clean things with the steam cleaner 😂
* check bank switch dosh, get back to main account, then transfer to Mr Cheery's new account
* file post and do whatever needs doing
* blog post
* Finish Mr Cheery's hat
* change bed

EVENING

* IPL and a film 😂
* bit of batch cooking
* flute playing

Got the house to myself in the evening, might just end up running amok with the steam cleaner 😂

themadvix

I’ve just heard that we’ve got a new library of things near to us Cheery - isn’t it lovely that they are spreading? Ours has a waffle iron, so I’m looking forward to borrowing that. (Hoping they have a toasted sandwich maker too - we don’t have space and nor do I want one hanging around, but would be nice for a change!).

 Never used a steam cleaner either, but I’m under the impression they are good (gentle but effective) for fabrics - maybe the sofa could be done? (I really should borrow MIL’s and use it on ours…). Enjoy!

Tescodealqueen

You can clean most things with a steam cleaner used ours on floors hanging curtains soft furnishing cooker top. You can even give dry clean clothes a freshen up with a blast of steam. Have fun