Cheery's country living adventure

beanielou · 8 October 2021 at 6:05PM

Would love the hello fresh thingy. Ta

dawnybabes · 8 October 2021 at 9:46PM

If you liked the hello fresh recipes you can just go onto the web site and click on the recipes - I printed a few off that I fancied and bought the stuff myself 😂

Cheery_Daff · 9 October 2021 at 12:19PM

Good idea Dawn! Definitely got a plan to create little meal kits for the fridge to make cooking easier once the kitchen is in!

I'll send you a PM beanie 😊

Just had a quick check of bank - premium bonds winnings are in, so I've transferred them to the kitchen fund, which now stands at £4876.25 which is 69.7% of goal 😊😊 Getting there! That goal is £7000 which gives us a total of £30k - I know it's going to go over that, but I'm not going to increase the goal now, I'm going to get to 100%, and by then we'll know the total cost, so we can have a new goal for the remaining bit.

So, today. Barely done anything yet - made pancakes, let chickens out, lay around reading. Mr Cheery is full of cold and I hope I'm not heading the same way, but since several of my colleagues are also sniffling, I suspect it's almost inevitable. Yawn.

Still, I do want to get some things done today! Will have a look back at my epic list from yesterday...

Cheery_Daff · 9 October 2021 at 12:27PM

Ok, let's see where we are with this list.

HOME
* washing up
* put dry washing away
* sort clothes in bathroom
* tidy kitchen
* hoover

DIY-RELATED
* get 'new' sink out of garage and give it a good clean (it came out of a skip 😂 )
* give everywhere a good brush and hoover
* remove extra doors and radiators from by back door
* remove gash carpet that the plasterer has spilled water all over 🙄
* see if there's anything in my study I can shift
* put up some bits of kitchen ceiling and see if I need some more plasterboard (plasterer used the 3 massive sheets I had - I said he could, there would probably have been a mark up if he'd ordered more!)

GARDEN
* clean out chicken house
* more scything
* shift some cut grass for mulch
* move lintel off the lawn
* tidy up - there's old sand bags and bits of building stuff everywhere

ONLINE
* email re granite and door knobs (YAWN)
* update spreadsheet
* cancel Hello Fresh - I'm at the end of trial period and now way paying full price

Ok, getting there. Turns out I've got one more week of discounted Hello Fresh so I'll use that then cancel next week. Might need a timed list since I'm feeling so drongy today!

Cheery_Daff · 9 October 2021 at 12:32PM

Right, a timed list

12.30-1 ONLINE
* email re granite and door knobs
* email Hello Fresh codes to people who've asked for them
* update spreadsheet

1-1.30 LUNCH
* make some dinner
* wash up

1.30-3 OUTSIDE
* peg out washing (not sure it's going to dry mind you, it's still quite misty and damp out there
* scything
* clean out chicken house
* tidy up a bit

3-5 POSSIBLE CAFE TRIP
* Just being realistic here

* assess plasterboard situation for a B&Q trip if necessary

5-7 INSIDE
* tidy offshot
* give building site a good brush and hoover
* remove anything from my study that I can (what are we going to do with the old oven??)
* put up at least one piece of plasterboard!

Right, read, steady, GO!

beanielou · 9 October 2021 at 8:06PM

Thank you

CathT · 10 October 2021 at 9:06AM

You have been busy Cheery but it's good to read there is progress (albeit stressful and unsettling) on the kitchen. Hope it all remains in budget for you. Glad you're making some time for pleasure too with cafe trips and meeting friends. It's so easy for these things to slip when we are busy at both home and work.

Cheery_Daff · 10 October 2021 at 10:24AM

Morning MSE chums

Let's have a look at that list, see what else needs doing...

HOME
* washing up
* put dry washing away
* sort clothes in bathroom
* tidy kitchen
* hoover

DIY-RELATED
* get 'new' sink out of garage and give it a good clean (it came out of a skip 😂 )
* give everywhere a good brush and hoover
* remove extra doors and radiators from by back door
* remove gash carpet that the plasterer has spilled water all over 🙄
* see if there's anything in my study I can shift
* put up some bits of kitchen ceiling and see if I need some more plasterboard - not got enough left to do a panel - will put in an order when I know the road will be open again

GARDEN
* clean out chicken house
* more scything
* shift some cut grass for mulch
* move lintel off the lawn
* tidy up - there's old sand bags and bits of building stuff everywhere

ONLINE
* email re granite and door knobs (YAWN)
* update spreadsheet
* cancel Hello Fresh - I'm at the end of trial period and now way paying full price - still got a week's discount, will cancel next week

Got some friends coming for lunch in a couple of hours, so I'm going to do a little bit more scything now, then get on the case making some food. One of them might help with a bit of scything later which will be nice.

Karmacat · 10 October 2021 at 11:28AM

Lovely balance to the plans, yesterday and today. I'm also loving that a sink came out of a skip, thats *so* good!

Baileys_Babe · 10 October 2021 at 12:42PM

Our kitchen sink came out of our neighbour's barn where it had been stored for years. Before that, it had done many years of service in the kitchen.

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