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Re: Investing in Us: Holidays, Health, and the Road to £150k
Lunch sorted and DH asked if I wanted to pop to garden centre now to get hedging. We have a cash pot so used that, so not taken out of budget. Got four hedges and two on order. We've placed them…5 -
Re: Investing in Us: Holidays, Health, and the Road to £150k
advice I was given when I stopped drinking caffeine. Week one make the usual cup but make it three quarters caffeine and I quarter decaf. Week 2 make it half and half. Week 3 make it one quarter caff…5 -
Re: Investing in Us: Holidays, Health, and the Road to £150k
DD has emptied all bins and stripped her bed 👏. I have worked my way through lots of jobs and I think I might need to call it a day soon. Headaches have turned into heart palpitations, nausea and di…5 -
Re: Investing in Us: Holidays, Health, and the Road to £150k
Morning all (quick check on time as I seem to have lost my morning and wondered if I'd slipped into afternoon already 😆)! @daisy_1571 ever my angel on my shoulder, my guiding conscience 😆 😇 h…5 -
Re: Renewed focus: the (less-than?) five-year plan to move
Afternoon all, Mr MV made it home via Paris about 5pm yesterday and boy was I glad to see him! He also brought me pastries - a cardamom bun from Stockholm and an award-winning croissant from Paris (w…6 -
Re: Steadily climbing the mountain, enjoying the view along the way
The new format is quite off putting isn’t it. I keep hoping I will adapt but it’s not got any easier so far … I am definitely visiting less, as there is just too much metal ‘friction’ and effort in i…13 -
Re: Renewed focus: the (less-than?) five-year plan to move
Morning all, Had to woman up and act as mouse chauffeur on my own this morning - after realising that BIL would already have left for work (and it's hardly the thing you want to start your day w…6 -
Re: Renewed focus: the (less-than?) five-year plan to move
Picked up cream for cat - it had better bl00dy work (although having realised you need gloves on to administer it, suspect cat isn't going to be chill about it - gloves mean chemo to him) - it w…5 -
Re: Renewed focus: the (less-than?) five-year plan to move
Saving September not going great… we have mice 😱😭😬 Mr MV walked out into the kitchen last night and saw something run across the worktop to behind the microwave. So after some strategic placing of…5 -
Re: Old Style Daily Friday 18 September 2026
Morning all Yesterday was a good day until about 3pm. I’d got loads done, some slab lifting and re-laying, been a nice walk with Bdog, and just finished sanding some wood. Then managed to miss a step…10
