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no bob, just a little bit - I will have lost soooo much weight by then I'll only be able to eat a wee sliver! ah well, life begins and all that...
Yes Jinky, THE biggy!Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £33,821
Make £50 a month Jan £0
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)0 -
ok Jinky can relax then as plenty of cake to go around..i am checking out my 10" tin. I think that should be big enough as roughly 60-80 slices if cut properly..or if too many DFW turn up then we cut and run!Blackadder: Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words 'I have a cunning plan' marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
Still lurking around with a hope of some salvation:cool:0 -
I fully intend to have lost weight by then too.....then promptly put it back on with BOBs cake:Dskint_spice wrote: »no bob, just a little bit - I will have lost soooo much weight by then I'll only be able to eat a wee sliver! ah well, life begins and all that...
Yes Jinky, THE biggy!
You sure dont look old enough:T:heartpulsOnce a Flylady, always a Flylady:heartpuls0 -
If we're having cake someone needs to remember a knife... spoon's aren't the best....Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.0
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Ames, if you just ask in a pub or restaurant they do it all for you - saves getting arrested!
Jinks, thanks! but I am and I do!Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £33,821
Make £50 a month Jan £0
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)0 -
Oh I am soooooo there!! Count me in please.xxDFW #414, MoneySaver, Income Booster
It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done.
£2,022 in 2022 #39 - Current total £2.900 -
skint_spice wrote: »Ames, if you just ask in a pub or restaurant they do it all for you - saves getting arrested!
Jinks, thanks! but I am and I do!
If only we'd known that in Leeds.Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.0 -
Mortgage OP 2026 £0/2000Mortgage OP 2025 £7700/7000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £33,821
Make £50 a month Jan £0
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)0 -
Yep gem, I am there. Its £30 on train from bristol and not that long either. Dont know if your train will go through bristol? Are you stopping over?0
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no we didn't. We cut the cake with a spoon.Unless I say otherwise 'you' means the general you not you specifically.0
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