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beanielou

Enjoy your flowers 🌷

Cherryfudge

The flowers sounds gorgeous, and it's nice to give last week's a fresh lease of life. Not many February gifts of flowers are still being enjoyed in April!

Watty1

Flowers sound lovely, flowers in the house are one of life's simple joys.

Also have a bin whizz to do the cleaning. Another simple joy - he is supposed to come fortnightly but often seems to have problems but I never mind. I did not realise that having a clean bin would make life feel better somehow but it does😊

rtandon27

A lovely day today & I spent most of it in the garden, tidying, pruning & breathing in the fresh air!

This Weekend's Ta-Da list…
✅ Learned to use a new-to-me piece of software - MS365 To-Do - it's included in a subscription I already have so might as well use it!
✅ YNAB shuffling
✅ 3rd weekend of the month - clear off credit cards
✅ Sort out ISISA
✅ Grocery order
✅ Kitchen reset for the week included washing cups, glasses, cutlery, plates, pots & pans & baking trays
✅ recycling & rubbish out and bins shuffled round
✅ vacuumed living/dining/kitchen
✅ supplements into dossets
✅ cleared last year's potted plants
✅ tamed climbing jasmine
✅ swept paved
✅ evicted a family of snails from the summer house
✅ all unwanted plant materials in the green bin
✅ watered potted plants
✅ hilled up grow bag potatoes
✅ made accordian/zigzag pizza pie to use up a pack of tortillas and the last pepperoni

Meal Plan
✅ 🥧🍟Friday Apr 17 - Fakeaway Day - Chinese nibbles (pupu pplatter)
✅ 🍜 Saturday Apr 18 - Easy Peasy Day - Lunch = dim sum & gyoza - Dinner = Waygu burgers & french fries
✅🍖🥕🍠🍅🥔 Sunday Apr 19 - Roast Day - Leftover pork roast stir-fry
✅🥬 Monday Apr 22 - Veggie Day - Caulicheese & pasta & lardons
🐟🍟 Tuesday Apr 23 - Fish Day - Fish & Chips (freezer fish & chips for him - scallops/basa & hash browns for her) disastorous commute so we had leftovers instead
✅🍗🍄🥕🥦🥔 Wednesday Apr 24 - Chicken Day - freezer dive chicken drums & veg & potatoes for her & freezer fish & chips for him
✅🍔🌽🥔 Thursday Apr 25 - Meat Day - Lamb Steak & veg & rice Takeaway McD's - it was a bit of a day!
✅🥧🍟Friday Apr 26 - Fakeaway Day -- Pizza & wedges
✅🍜 Saturday Apr 27 - Easy Peasy Day - Dim Sum & Gyoza & Noodles
🍖🥕🍠🍅🥔 Sunday Apr 28 - Roast Day - Lamb Steak & veg & rice

Cherryfudge

Wonderful set of accomplishments!

rtandon27

@Cherryfudge - I'm rather enamoured of those green ticks!

rtandon27

Another incident with the plastic grass neighbours. On Sunday I discovered they had dumped a metal frame behind my shed, by accessing the right of way at the end of our properties. They are the only people who have access to that right of way as it is actually blocked on the other side. Until recently, the metal frame was the support for his tomato growing raised bed, but shortly after I purchased my 6-ft wooded plant staging, there appeared a 3 foot one on their property and the metal base disappeared!

I was utterly livid to find rubbish on my property, and unfortunately they were not home until mid-night Monday as I had some choice words prepared for Sunday night. As it stands, OH who has only just regained some strength, decided to relocate their frame back to behind their shed! (…and I let him get on with it!)

I've subsequently discovered I could have taken photos and reported it to the council as fly-tipping with a 5000pound fine a possibility, not to mention a day in court. What they did is actually a criminal offence. I do however have to have had at least one conversation to attempt to resolve the issue. So tomorrow when the offensive Mr Plastic Grass goes to work, I will request 5 minutes of the Mrs time - as she is the actual home-owner - I shall politely give her facts and advise her that if he trespasses and fly-tips again I will report to the council and seek legal advice to prevent them from accessing my property. Due to his previous verbal abuse and targeted discrimination, there is actually a good reason to request this as cumulatively they can be taken as ASB! I'm so very glad I kept a log of everything he's done over the past years - even though at the time I felt it was a bit anal - lol!

Watty1

Outraged … hope conversation goes well tomorrow although I have my doubts it will based on previous performance.

rtandon27

@Watty1 - as do I my dear, that is why I'm saving the conversation for a day when I don't have work pressures to deal with - but if i don't have the conversation then I can't follow up with the reporting as the first box on the form is something akin to - have you attempted to resolve the problem verbally with your neighbour?

beanielou

That is actually outrageous.