Cheery's country living adventure

Evening chums :hello:

Thought I'd pop in as it's been a while

All cheery here. Work is busy and I am in the city most daya between now and Christmas which was NOT what I had planned :eek: Not doing wonders for my sanity or for the diesel bill :eek: but it IS only til Christmas and then things will calm down considerably til at least next September :j

We finally got round to sending our wayleave form off so hopefully a cheque for £2000 should wing its way to us soon :money:

Some of that will pay for the heating engineers, who will be fitting us radiators in the kitchen and utility rooms, which don't currently have them :eek:

Rennovations are continuing apace - Mr Cheery has nearly removed the whole of the chimney now so we next need to figure out how to finish off the wall and then sort out someone to sort out the floors... Thinking of asking the farmer if he'd be willing to do it - we've got to pay someone and would rather it was someone we knew!

Other than that... We've been vigilant this weekend and it's paid off. Went out for tea with my mum at the weekend and the (new) waiter wrote down 'special' instead of 'vegetable' and Mr Cheery ended up with a dish of chicken and lamb (he doesn't eat meat). All swiftly and apologetically rectified - but when the bill came it still had the special on it which was nearly £4 extra. Glad I checked!

Then we bought some reduced flowers in the supermarket and noticed as we went through that we'd been charged the full price -the reduced sticker hadn't fully covered the original bar code. Had to go to customer services to get our £1.76 back :rotfl:

Pays to be vigilant people!

Nowt much else to report. Not been to the cafe much lately with all this work getting in the way :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Need to sort ynab as I was paid the other day and not done it since!

Hope all is good for you in MSE land :j

Thank you edwink :j

We actually found out this week that our village cafe is being sold!! :eek: someone else is planning to use it as a cafe but we're quite particular about such things so not holding our breath. But then this might mean that our cafe spending is cut so much that we pay the mortgage off several years early :rotfl: :rotfl:

Well, it's not going to get paid off early if I carry on the rate I've been going :eek: :eek:

Just done YNAB for the first time in a couple of weeks. When will I learn?! Completely stopped using the app, everything is all in a mess

Had to stick £81 under 'budget fiddling' cos I couldn't work out what I'd done with it once I'd got it out in cash :eek: :eek: I have been away for work though but not really much I can claim on expenses - mostly it's just been frittered :eek:

Budget isn't looking very healthy - nothing major has happened either :eek: Couple of things, had a musical instrument fixed etc, but nothing we shouldn't be able to deal with.

Really need to sit down and get this stuff sorted out and a decent budget planned This is like the bad old days! :eek:

In other MSE news...

Had a letter from the wayleave people enclosing our signed agreement - no cheque though and no mention of one :eek: So not entirely sure what's happened to that :eek: Hoping it'll come in a separate envelope...

Got £50 credit to the electricity account because a friend used our referral link to switch :j :j Must remember to transfer that to the mortgage account (which feels utterly ridiculous given the mess the current account is in but one has to stick to the rules of ones own game! Kind of...)

Had a £5.50 rewards payment from the bank account - should also stick that to the mortgage account

Had an email from the electricity company - they're putting our direct debit up cos we're using more than we're paying for. Fair enough - I've just checked the meter reading and they're not *that* far off... We've got a couple of electric heaters on at the minute as we have a few rooms without radiators :eek:

Speaking of which - plumber is coming this week to fit the radiators :j Except I've just had an email saying the radiator we ordered won't be here til 7th December :mad: Mr Cheery refuses to have the one the plumber will source and bring himself, so he's going to have to find another one, and it looks like we won't be getting it fitted this week. How tiresome.

Local farmer found us a potential builder :j :j He came round last night, we're going to get the buildings regs man back in this week to give us advice about exactly what to do to meet the requirements, then builder will quote. Doesn't sound like he'll be completely outlandish, and will let Mr Cheery work alongside him it seems.

So a bit of a mixed bag for me at the minute. Really annoyed with myself for not keeping up with YNAB and really annoyed with the whole stupid radiator situation! :eek: Fed up of thinking about it and just want to be WARM! :rotfl:

Still, working at home for most of this week :j I am SO excited :j Been SO tired lately, so this is an opportunity to have some driving-free days, which will also knock a dent in our currently-outlandish diesel bill :eek:

Right, another cup of tea then best get on with some work I suppose...