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Re: Getting FIREd up 😀
And half the time you go back to your original supplier and they'll match anything you find anyway. Feels like such an unnecessary tennis game.5 -
Re: Getting FIREd up 😀
If I am caning them, I will sometimes treat it as a warning, i.e. "you're getting tired, time to finish up". Sometimes, however, the warnings are just inexplicable/arrive the next day …5 -
Re: Living the Good Life - mortgage free and living in line with our values
An unopened bottle of maple syrup?!? 😱 How is that even possible? We almost had a maple syrup crisis the other day when there was only one spoon left - I've ordered some from back home and a ti…5 -
Re: Living the Good Life - mortgage free and living in line with our values
Sounds like you had an excellent time, and I hope that refund goes through! Work can pesk off being annoyed by you having an extra day off - in sure it won't make any difference at all to them i…5 -
Re: Living the Good Life - mortgage free and living in line with our values
Wow TG, thank you so much for all of this - so much useful information in there! I really appreciate it! I haven't looked too much online yet, but the library doesn't seem to have a great c…5 -
Re: Living the Good Life - mortgage free and living in line with our values
Sounds like a lovely plan, I have not done Legoland since I was a kid but from Billund you have a lovely base to explore that part of the Country. The West coast beach is lovely and 200km of white sa…5 -
Re: Living the Good Life - mortgage free and living in line with our values
That all sounds most frustrating in organisation terms but financially sounds excellent! Glad it gives you a bit of a cushion to get stuff done. Have a lovely trip!5 -
Re: Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"
Just shy of a Maiden. 5.98 Os. A steady as she goes day, as the irradiance didn't get above the 500s, owing to the thin high cloud.7 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
When sewing machine delivery arrived - chap said sorry he was late - I hadn't been given a time. He was a lovely man - brought the machine which it was bolted onto a pallet into my drive. Very w…18 -
Re: 2026 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN Mrs SD - our Year of Redistribution
DH was up walking neighbours dog before I got up. Then he was out washing car before I finished breakfast. He is so bored without bowls that we are getting a lot done. I cut back camelia bush to stop…15
