🌞 Happy Days in our Golden Years 🌞

beanielou

Good to hear from.
Boo to the blooming builder but yah to spending Christmas with the Youngest Fortunate 

rtandon27

ooo - how exciting that the littlest will be with you for the holiday - and so nice that YF's Mom will experience a Christmas meal out! - these are the things that happy memories are made of!

Mrs_Money_Penny

Lovely to hear from you. Sorry about the builders I dread every having to get tradesmen in. How old is FDdog now? Sorry he’s not up to the journey I still see him as a mischievous pup x

savingholmes

As the reigning queen of difficult conversations I am sure you can sort the builder out.

Welcome back!

Humdinger1

Yes standing by for updates @Fortune_Smiles! I only wish I could be a fly on the wall at the relevant moments; you'll be fab.   Love Humdinger xx 

Fortune_Smiles

savingholmes said:

As the reigning queen of difficult conversations I am sure you can sort the builder out.

Welcome back!

Thanks SH.  For once, I'm giving up on a difficult conversation.  The guy is gaslighting us with denials, misdirections, demands and threats - it's not possible to have any sort of conversation in these circumstances.  I'm leaving it to the solicitors now.  I do love being a 'queen' of something though 😁

Humdinger1 said:

Yes standing by for updates @Fortune_Smiles! I only wish I could be a fly on the wall at the relevant moments; you'll be fab.   Love Humdinger xx 

It will be interesting Humdinger - the guy doesn't do reasonable, fair or even legal.  I'll take it all the way to court if I have to though.  I'll feel dreadful for his family if it comes to that but I can't let the guy do this to us or anyone else for that matter.

Fortune x

Fortune_Smiles

Aint nobody got time for that 😂

I've spent pretty much the whole week getting documentation ready for the solicitors and I'm not even half way through yet.  Feeling very resentful that my precious time is being taken up in this way but I'm trying to think of it as a worthy cause if it at least stops bully builder from doing this to anyone else.  I've given myself the weekend off to recuperate.

Yesterday was spent progressing the dinosaur play mat/bag I started in June 🤭  I'd put it aside as I needed some notions to complete it and then was seduced by other projects 🙄  However, as we only have 81 days now until a certain event 🎄 I thought I'd better getter a wriggle on with it.  So the play mat/bag and one dinosaur is finished.  I just need to make all the other 'saurus to go with it.

Today we are going out for lunch at the brewery.  It will be nice to get out of the house for a while (it's been glaring at me all week due to my neglect of the housework).  Later I'm planning to make a dinosaur or two 😁.

This week my focus needs to be on completing the claim with the solicitors 📜, cleaning the house 🧹 and going to the gym 🧘‍♀️.  I've been wanting to add an extra class to my exercise plan for ages and, as a gap has just opened up in my diary, I want to take advantage of that before it gets filled with other stuff.

Thanks for the support guys and have a great Sunday.

Fortune x



(If anyone's interested, it's a free pattern/tutorial:  https://www.benziedesign.com/blogs/tutorials/dinosaur-playmat.  The tutorial is for hand sewing but I made my version entirely on my sewing machine.)

Greying_Pilgrim

Fab sewing Fortune! - that's going to be a wonderful toy that will be used and loved 👍😁

Greying X

Viking_mfw

That's gorgeous! 

rtandon27

A absolutely lovely creative project as yours are always prone to be!  I've got crafting envy 😉

As for the builder, you are 💯 % correct to take him to court, you've got my backing all the way.  Don't feel bad for his family - he's mucked you around and every action has a re-action.  It's on him, not you if anyone in his circles suffers because of his misdeeds!