Cold, Covid, man flu??

Must be a seasonal thing, around this time last year we were both struck down with a mega flu that took us off our feet, and its happened again!

Started with Jirawan having a bad cough, then getting more and more tired before developing a low grade fever. At which point I told her to get to bed and rest..I kept her pumped up with orange juice and light snacks and cold meds. She basically slept for 2 days... when her fever broke she was still tired and listless but improving.

At which point, Florence Nightingale here, started coughing and getting tired and developing a mild fever... I'm not blessed with Jirawans ability to nod off at the 1st opportunity but I certainly had to take a lot of paracetamol and cough mix...and stayed in bed as much as I was able.

We're over the worst, but as with all these respiratory virii,  the cough lingers and our ribs ache... we'll need a few more days.. of chilling.

But I still had to go to the house daily to take the update photo's and videos and progress is really accelerating in these last few weeks, maybe days even.. A couple of minor issues with the windows not being as we asked but an honourable compromise was reached.

We are on track.. Oct 31 is move in day..18 days.... exciting....and scary.. the costs ramp up..but we'll almost on budget...we will make it.

Ahthankyew

Spend spend spend

Or more accurately, try not to spend, spend, spend.

The hunt for bargains is ongoing, we're finding we can save quite a bit on things when we shop around. And also there's a temptation to spend big on things when we find really nice stuff.

The intention is to furnish the house as minimal as possible, at least to start, we can add things month by month as we go, but this rash of spending as we move in needs to have a hard limit....though don't ask me what the limit is, I was hoping 250K but 300K is probably closer. I will itemise things soon.

But we're doing ok, we've got beds sorted now, TV's, matresses, kitchen units, ovens, hob, hood, couch, Table, chairs, sideboards, units, wardrobes, and at least a couple of options on Fridges and freezers.

We overestimated on the garden, it will be around half what we expected, and we found good deals on a large table, matresses and ovens... as well as the kitchen units, saving us a pretty penny which allows me to get TV's and matresses on order before we move.

Jirawan gets to let her hair down on the garden now and stll keep a bit of cash in reserve for plants, or home gadgets.

We certainly overspent on hand made wardrobes... and one of the beds....But they were just too nice to not buy.

However... as far as we can see, we've got all the main things sorted out... and more or less under budget even if that budget is not totally fixed down, its not red....yet.

But now we have things like bedding, towels, crockery, pots, pans, storage bins, shelves, and things we've not thought of yet... But will discover we need the day after we move in.

There are still some final installments on the build to pay though, almost 1m baht in total, which leaves us with about 2m to fund these last few bits and feed ourselves for a year... its actually quite tight.

Lets hope we can pull this off..

Ahthankyew