Slacking

Sorry I have not been in the mood to blog last couple of days. I had an attack of mondayitis yesterday - I ached, mostly knees, and found it hard to get going and get anything done. Pain is energy sapping somehow. I did manage a few jobs around the house and a bit of shopping.
Do you remember back a few weeks when I told you the saga of the goldfish? Well we have a tank full of gold fish at the moment over-wintering chez nous. They are piggies and eat a lot so we'd run out of fish food. They are used to pond food in stick form. I toddled off to the pet store to get some goldfish food. They had loads. In flake form, and small pots. No good to me. I bought one small jar of flakes to last a few days in case I couldn't get pond sticks. I called into B&Q and found pond sticks there. I bought a big bag of them. It should last out their stay and have some left over to go back to the farm with. So now the fish are adjusting to the different flavour. They seem to be ok with them. Because the tank is really over stocked we have to keep cleaning out the filter and changing the water every 3 days. No, not the whole tank full, just a bucket full out and a fresh bucketful in, that's been standing 2 or 3 days to de-chlorinate. The filter needs de-clogging every 3 days too to keep the oxygenating flow going. Who's fish are they? Well Jen's taking care of them but 3 guesses as to who does most water changes and filter cleans? I leave the feeding up to Jen except at weekends when it's my job. The fish look healthy and lively. I might just get a couple of our own to keep after these go back to the farm troughs. Fish are relaxing to have around.
This afternoon I had the delight of a visitng salesman *sigh* You know the routine. They measure up, get out their price book and do the calculations. This is the 'normal' price. But TODAY we have a 50% discount on offer! Which makes it half that. Doesn't that sound good? (It's still at least twice what you were expecting/hoping for) You hesitate - they get on the blower to their 'manager' who miraculously offers another 10% off. Now it sounds really good compared to the original (rediculous) price, BUT only if you sign up now today! oh BTW this was for flat roofing with the latest wonder surface with a 25 yr guarantee!
Two flipping hours he was here going through further price reductions. I had told him as he stepped out of the car I would not sign anything today.
I want other quotes. Finally got him to agree to holding the offer til tomorrow as I 'had to consult my accountant' about releasing assets to raise the money. I just wanted time to check them out  and their product online. It is over 3 times what I expected to pay for normal felt roof replacement and I am not happy that the final price they quoted me today was realistic. As I will probably not be here when the roof needs doing again and may have moved out before then anyway, I cannot see a good enough reason to spend all that money now.
He wore me out tho. Now I'm knackered!
Bed soon.
Hope you've had a good day. x