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Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
Another one in the camp of take yourself out for the day, leave DH and LG to themselves and have a lovely time. They are being really rather ungrateful … KK7 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
I second that. Pick a day, pack up your lunch and flask, casually mention you are off out for the day, and GO! Leave them to it, and have lovely day at a NT or whatever.6 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
Big hugs Greying. Sounds to me like you need a day out all on your own, leaving DH and LG to moan at each other for a few hours. Can you pick a day and go? Don't worry about feeding then or plan…6 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
I did smile at the remote story - if the replacement hasn't been despatched you might be able to cancel it which will save the hassle of "returns"6 -
Re: From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future
Good Morning MFW'rs Another day at the coal-face. LG accidentally (but it was wholly avoidable 🙄) knocked the hard-drive recorder remote into a glass of water yesterday afternoon 🙄Although I h…6 -
Re: Watty's Awakening
Stinky loves having trades here, but it's not-Fatty who really likes to get involved and supervise…10 -
Re: Steadying the ship - a perilous voyage across the financial middle
Whereas now, we pensioners get the Triple lock applied to state pensions (wages higher than both CPI in September and 2.5% this year) and our occupational pensions increase in May by CPI the previous…8 -
Re: Steadying the ship - a perilous voyage across the financial middle
Yes - ours works in a similar way - but you explained it much more succinctly! - lol - the caveat for ours is that we are not permitted to unionize (yes that is a real thing) - we are however able to…7 -
Re: Make £2026 in 2026
my total for March is £484. This is a combination of interest, premium bond winnings, cash back, Prolific and freebies. Freebies this month included entrance fee to a local attraction via the Nationa…5 -
Re: And now we go again...
we did a day trip to the IoW a few years ago and travelled there by hovercraft which fulfilled an ambition for me and was great fun. We then travelled by train and bus to Ventnor for lobster and chip…5
