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  • duchy
    duchy Posts: 19,511 Forumite
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    Yay for DS
    And for you for the MBing. I've not done any for a couple of months (emptied Betfair when I went on holiday in July) but really must get back into it again-really not sure why it's so hard to get back into it again -having some kind of mental block I think
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  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,421 Forumite
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    Tigz, we'll arrange a date for you to come over and I can show you and talk you through it if you like?? Its not as bad as you'd think and the returns are fabulous!! :D:D
    Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1680
  • tigzem
    tigzem Posts: 2,361 Forumite
    Tigz, we'll arrange a date for you to come over and I can show you and talk you through it if you like?? Its not as bad as you'd think and the returns are fabulous!! :D:D

    That will be great.... I can come down one Sat, the kids can play trains whilst you show me and then we'll go for a walk along the beach, sounds fab! :D:D:D:D

    xx
    "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,421 Forumite
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    Time for my nightly update .... ds had another great day at school today :j :j I'm soooo happy :D:D We went to mums after school and had dinner and went to the park then ds did another of his shows for us all ;):D

    Today I ended up spending 3.70 on lunch as I didn't have time for making packed lunch :o:o Tonight I spent 2.00 on bread and milk too.

    Tonight I've done some washing, had a bath, got ds uniform ready for tomorrow and done my nails :D Off now to mooch around on the boards and then another early night as I'm shattered in the mornings and I have a meeting after work tomorrow too :rolleyes:
    Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1680
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,610 Forumite
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    Good for DS, does he have a different teacher this year? or maybe he's just a bit more mature and ready for school? Much less stress for both of you though!
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,421 Forumite
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    He's been worse than normal recenntly, but there is a school disco on friday that he wants to go to so I think that might have something to do with it :rolleyes: ;) ... perhaps I'll have to find a disco every week for him if it does the trick :D
    Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1680
  • superpup
    superpup Posts: 571 Forumite
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    Evening all :D:D Today was a nsd :T :T and ds had a really good day at school :j :j He got 4 stickers and his teacher wrote a whole page in his book (normally just a line) about how good he's been today :D:D I'm the happiest mummy in town tonight ;) I let him choose what we did after school tonight as a reward and he chose going to the park and then playing trains :rolleyes: :D He could've told me he wanted to fly to the moon and I would've tried it, I was soooo pleased with him :D

    Lurker alert. I always read your diary as you are one of my heros... :cool:

    Had to say the post above brought a tear to my eye. I wish you were my mum (impossible I know as I'm older than you but you know what I mean :D )
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,610 Forumite
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    oooo, maybe there's a girl involved! whatever works though...
    Kids eh, DS has been winding me up all night then came through and helped me in the kitchen unprompted - I'm trying to think that it's because he's lovely and not that he's after something...
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • benbenandme
    benbenandme Posts: 12,421 Forumite
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    Aw thankyou Superpup, and welcome to this posting lark :D:D Tonight when the teacher said he'd been great she said it in a really loud voice so loads of other mums heard too :D:D:D

    SS, I wish it was because of a girl, instead he wants to impress everyone with his "strictly come dancing stylee dancing" :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:
    Mortgage Total: £50,550/ £75,000
    Mortgage Overpayments Pot £1680
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,610 Forumite
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    SS, I wish it was because of a girl, instead he wants to impress everyone with his "strictly come dancing stylee dancing" :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: awww how cute is that! something to remind him of when he's fifteen...:D
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £33,821

    Boiler fund £925/3000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
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