Steadily climbing the mountain, enjoying the view along the way

KajiKita

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81855826#Comment_81855826

It is 😊

Very busy day in work. I have been organising a supplier to take a huge wodge of material back from us to inspect it as it is not very good quality, the customer is fretting about it and we don’t have the space to inspect it any time soon. I think everyone in the business is getting a bit fed up of the work this entails but I can’t see better option to protect the customer … 🤷‍♀️ (to be fair, my quality engineer said something similar). Frustratingly that meant I didn’t get chance to go for a walk at lunchtime even though the monsoon had passed and it was dry … sigh …

Caught up with all my financial updates this evening and I can see I am £74 below the grocery budget for the month - not quite the £82 I used in tosco vouchers at the beginning of the month, but I am happy to divert that to an OP once I get paid at the end of the week 😊

KK

KajiKita

A few little wins from today 😊

• Did my chair squats and free weights before going to work today.
• Running around at work and a quick 10 minute walk at lunchtime has got me to 8.5K steps which is slightly over my minimum target. 🚶
• I’m enjoying an online permaculture course atm created by Huw R1chards. One task he sets you is to define your vision / mission statement for your gardening or growing and put it somewhere you see it every day. I came up with the statement last week but couldn’t work out how to display it until this evening - it’s a bit heath robinson, but it will do 😊

🤩

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Aw that's lovely. Very much enjoying your interiors too 😁

KajiKita

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81858804#Comment_81858804

My bedroom is unashamedly FLORAL!! 😉🤩😊

KK

beanielou

Great intention.

Merlin's_Beard

Love that intention!

Brie

Was going to say I like your top. And then I saw your angel/belle of the ball. And then I saw your mushroom. Love them all!!

KajiKita

Thanks @beanielou @Merlin's_Beard 😊

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81860149#Comment_81860149

Thank you 💃

Both the angel and the mushroom were presents from friends. The angel / fairy came as a Christmas present a few years ago but I was loathe to hide her away after Christmas and it was quite a whimsical gift from such a serious friend (the gardening one) it always makes my heart smile to see it 😊

KK

CCW007

Love the intention but I did read it at first to mean that you produce relish 😁

KajiKita

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81861274#Comment_81861274

Hahaha … Fair dos, that made me chuckle 😊

It’s been a crazy hectic morning in work:

• supplier meeting to confirm rework and inspection process we need from them to recover stock they made as poor quality - went well, we have a plan! 😊
• Much rushing around drafting a quality response document to a major quality issue we had stuffed up. My boss was raging this morning and I was having to pull him back down to earth - I agreed with him about the levels of idiocy and incompetence we have shown, but we need to focus on how to fix, not just shout and rage … 😉
• Customer visit about that ^^ quality issue - they didn’t even look at the document I’d prepared (that was fine, the customer didn’t want a formal meeting in that way) and we were all very focused on how to fix and in what timescale. Meeting overran my usual Friday finish time …

Whizzed past home to collect my new prescription 👏

Put a wash on, finished off the soup I made from leftovers yesterday evening (fridge gravel and cheese) and warmed it through for my lunch with some toast.
Plumber landed (finally!) so the house has been in uproar ALL afternoon!! The job is STILL not finished … 🙄 (some tray or other needs fitting inside the boiler? won’t happen today so he still won’t bill us … 🙄🤷‍♀️) but the lounge radiator is now on half inch pipe and plumbed more directly so should run warmer … 🤞

When the worst of the heavy duty drilling was happening, I escaped into the garden for a bit. Rain stopped play fairly quickly, but I did manage to broad fork the bed I cleared last weekend and spread HM compost on it, so a crumb more progress has been made 😊 I also watered the greenhouse.

I then boxed up the rest of the soup (3 portions for work lunches) and cleaned and renewed the water filter jug 😊 Washing retrieved from a slight drying session in the garden and TD’d to damp - finishing off on the heated airer 😊

In more MSE type news, I sent £4.03 from surveys off to an OP along with a 77p TT 😊

I also rang c00p this afternoon and our minimum payment has reduced enough now that our auto OP from paying a set value each month, has now increased from £47.51 to c. £80 pcm!! 😊🥳🎉🎊 Delighted with that!

Meals plan for the week is defined and Mr KK has decreed that it will be a chippy tea tonight as the plumbing task has overrun so much …!

KK