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🌞 Happy Days in our Golden Years 🌞
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I've just found your new diary! Hooray! I've really missed your posts!
So pleased to read that you, Mr F and Canine- F are well!
I'm so sorry though to hear about your issues with the Cowboy Joiner! I do hope you can get things sorted out here.That was so good of you too to donate your meadow grass to your farmer neighbour. Poor farmers - they need all the help they can get these days. ☹️
All in all, it's great to hear about your continuing hobbies and how you're spending retirement. 🥰Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
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RETIRED: MAY 2021!!!!😀🎆
My diary: “Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!”5 -
I was considering seeing if our farmer wants our meadow grass this year too. What's putting me off is that party of the walk has come down so he'd need to mess about with electric fencing, and I feel like he's done enough of that on our land this year already! And the gate post has rotted so the gate isn't even attached... but I should probably get that fixed anyway 🙄 (and would probably ask if he'd do it for a few quid) so.. it'd save me a scything job if nowt else!5
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Would he swap fixing the gate for the meadow grass? Could that work?
Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!3 -
Watty1 said:Would he swap fixing the gate for the meadow grass? Could that work?5
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I'm sure the cows will appreciate the extra sustenance and the new field to explore! In return they will aerate your field and fertilize it - so win/win!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 7 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 17 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!4
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Offer him the grass, but let him know the issues - "I wasn't going to offer as the gate/wall/fencing isn't in a good state, but if you need it, then it's yours." He may be able to sort out temporary security.
As for the scything, I haven't started mine, and the front needs to be done by Sept 25th as I have a tree coming down then. I need to drill a hole for the peening anvil in my bench, and sort out the blade, as I've never peened it myself... and then I can try and remember what to do!4 -
Seasidegal58 said:I've just found your new diary! Hooray! I've really missed your posts!
So pleased to read that you, Mr F and Canine- F are well!
I'm so sorry though to hear about your issues with the Cowboy Joiner! I do hope you can get things sorted out here.That was so good of you too to donate your meadow grass to your farmer neighbour. Poor farmers - they need all the help they can get these days. ☹️
All in all, it's great to hear about your continuing hobbies and how you're spending retirement. 🥰Cheery_Daff said:I was considering seeing if our farmer wants our meadow grass this year too. What's putting me off is that party of the walk has come down so he'd need to mess about with electric fencing, and I feel like he's done enough of that on our land this year already! And the gate post has rotted so the gate isn't even attached... but I should probably get that fixed anyway 🙄 (and would probably ask if he'd do it for a few quid) so.. it'd save me a scything job if nowt else!
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Bye bye week flying by 🪁
Another week has flown! I'm sure time is speeding up 🙄
Most of the week has been taken up with DS2's visit and wading through the treacle that passes for communication with the Joiner. We're going to see him tomorrow to view the cabinets 🤔 I'm hoping all our queries/concerns will be answered/put to bed but I know there is one major issue to be addressed. How we proceed will all depend on how he handles that one. At least he has now accepted that he did agree to instal/arrange for the installation of worktops as part of the project. Yesterday he was saying that we'd have to engage another firm to do that 🙄 I think he may be slowly wading through the treacle too and finding that he's put a lot of this stuff in writing to us 😉
The grocery shop is done (and more or less on budget). A third load of washing is in the machine and I think I've managed to save a shirt and gilet that Mr F got covered in pink dye 🙄 (a clay pigeon dropped on him from the sky 😂).
We've had Fish Pie Soup for lunch today which was left over from last night and I'm planning a Potato, Spring Onion, Dill & Cheese Frittata for supper with salad.
I haven't started my next sewing project yet (due to the treacle wading) so will scratch the sewing itch with S3wing B33 this evening. Mr F is being banished to the gym 😂
Fortune x
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Ooooh - that frittata looks scrumptious!😋. I'm a Big Eggy Lover!🍳Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
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RETIRED: MAY 2021!!!!😀🎆
My diary: “Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!”4
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