Hello Dear Reader,
The sun is out and I’m in shorts for the duration. I’m in the hairless legs fan club which can soon add up if I were to use fancy lady razors and foam. Instead I buy men ‘s disposables from Aldi and hair conditioner instead of shaving foam. I never pay more than. £1 for either. It doesn ‘t make my legs any slimmer but I can stay hairless for less.
We’ve had a plasterer out to quote for the work. My advice, do not send your children to college to study anything academic, they will earn more than a teacher and civil servant combined in a day by rendering and plastering! If you want them to earn more than the Prime Minister, get them trained as a heating engineer !!!!! I have two chimney breasts that will take me a week’s salary to have plastered! Thankfully, they are jobs that only need doing once!
It’s a good job I’m thrifty to pay for all this and prepared to have a free holiday so we can renovate the house.
Dearly Beloved, worked all day and used a lump hammer and bolster to removed the fire place stone by stone. He then bagged it up and took it load by load to the tip.
Sorry for the blurry photos, blogging has been courtesy of my phone due to internet speeds slower than pigeon post!
Here’s what we have to budget for:
Chimmey lining and chimney alterations.
Energy effecient woodstove,
Strip the wooden floor and seal it.
Paint the wall and woodwork
And that’s just one room ! Fortunately we are again in a rising market and we shouldn ‘t lose any money on our investment. We then have the rest of the house. It’s really imortant to work out what we could afford and then stick to that budget. We can’t change our minds or do anything fancy and our home will have to be very simple.
I’ve had another slow day , migraine tablets leave me feeling hungover for twenty four hours afterwards. I’ve pottered and cooked to make the most of the oven and have roasted a joint of lamb and a gammon joint. I’ve then cooled it and sliced it with the electric slicer. As we’re busy with the house we need easy to grab food we can just eat with salad.
Tomorrow, the ‘scratch coat’ goes on the chimney breast and we ‘ll at long last get to remove the pongy carpets!
Over to you, what difficulties do you foresee with our budget renovations and how can we avoid them ?
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxx
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