Cheery's country living adventure

Fortune_Smiles · 20 October 2021 at 2:08PM

It's soggy in the Shire too @Cheery_Daff. I'm hoping it doesn't penentrate to the window recesses now we've decorated. We've still no installation date for the remaining windows 🙄

Hope you dry out soon.

Fortune x

beanielou · 20 October 2021 at 5:46PM

Agree wityh EH.
Time to set a deadline!

Cheery_Daff · 20 October 2021 at 7:03PM

Elisheba said:

I love the fact you have a well in your cellar, @Cheery_Daff That'll be useful come the zombie apocalypse Seriously though, people in the past must have been delighted that they didn't have to trek outside come the winter and the snow. Not quite as useful now, I'll grant you, but even so, its still cool!

Ha, yes it'll be great come the apocalypse! Apparently it was originally outside, but then they built the next bit of house over it. Our house wasn't connected to water mains til 1986,and the neighbours used to come over here for water too 😂

Pleased to report things are very much less damp today, and upstairs looks very dry again, and the plasterer reckons I can get on with painting. Not going to do it just yet as we have visitors sleeping in there at the weekend and don't want it to be too fumy but I will do the bits that are going behind the radiators at least.

Plastering downstairs is looking good, and they'll be done by Friday! They've done the kitchen end first so the kitchen itself can be fitted sooner - as far as I know it's ready, so should just be a case of the fitters having time... we'll see. I really don't think there's that much else to do now.

Plasterers did leave a bit of a slushy mess on the floor again though... bit annoying but we've cleaned it up. Probably need to mention it tomorrow as we have to walk through it from kitchen to sink, and from living room to bed, so can't just leave it.

Minor celebration tonight as I got the little role I was going for at work 😁😁Can't tell anyone at work yet, as they have to tell the unsuccessful people first, but I'm delighted. Got a pizza and a bit of fizz 😁

rtandon27 · 20 October 2021 at 8:20PM

Well done Cheery! Pizza & Fizz is a lovely little reward

edwink · 20 October 2021 at 8:41PM

Well done cheery, enjoy your pizza 🍕 and fizz 🥂

Edwink x

beanielou · 20 October 2021 at 8:57PM

Pleased for you

Elisheba · 20 October 2021 at 8:59PM

Congratulations

. Enjoy your celebration!

Cheery_Daff · 20 October 2021 at 9:14PM

Thanks ladies 😊😊

Builder emailed - plumber's van has died 🙄 Yawn. Said he'd be out either Saturday or Monday to do skirting boards upstairs, but he can't come on Saturday because we've actually got people staying in that room on Saturday! Not exactly luxury accommodation and if it was anyone else I might put them off... but it's taken forever to get them to come out here and I fear if we postpone it'll be another 3 years before they get here 😂

Did I mention we can't turn the central heating on?? Same issue as last winter, except now turning it off and on again several times doesn't seem to work any more... spoke to someone today who reckons we should be able to bypass the thermostat (it's not talking to the boiler, but there's no way to control the heating without it) so we'll try that over the next few days and see, and if not, get someone out. Forgot about the perils of finding a plumber - spoke to a lovely guy today recommended by a friend but he's not registered for LPG 🙄

Hey ho, job for tomorrow, not tonight!

Karmacat · 20 October 2021 at 10:04PM

Congratulations on the work role

and commiserations on your thermostat that needs bypassing. My thermostat is also complaining to me - its telling me the boiler needs a service, seriously

it's at least 11 years old, I'd no idea it could be so determined

Baileys_Babe · 21 October 2021 at 10:00AM

Congratulations on the work role

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