The diary of Martin Mac...

(Land_of)_Maz

I'm glad to hear you are pdf-ing the document now and not driving up and down the road for proof reading sessions now....

i wonder who had that idea... :whistle:

Martin_Mac

Was it you Maz?? . To be fair, the programme editor finds it easier now too as he can email me the programme page-by-page and I find it easier because I save myself around £300 a year in fuel.

Today's spend was on one thing. The weekly shop. I'd like to eventually get this down to an average of £30 per week. This morning's shopping at Asda was £25.56 but I changed my coppers and 5p's so got £6.11 knocked off making a new total of £19.45.

I managed to get myself another paper round today. I've been doing two rounds now for two months but another one came up for grabs so I'll start that one on Wednesday. The pay isn't brilliant but it's cash, it's paid fortnightly and it works out at around £620 a year. Aiming to be DFW isn't always about cutting your outgoings, it's also about increasing your incomings too and that's something I'll be looking to do.

mickey_mouse

well done Martin on getting the extra paper round - wahoo more money coming in.

I like your stories. It is great you support a smaller team (she says supporting Man Utd:rotfl: ) My hubby supports Plymouth and I love to follow how his team is doing. I will also follow Yeovil now - just for you - well my inlaws are in Somerset (Chard) so it will be like supporting their local team:D . Do you do any of the fantasy football leagues? We do the Telegraph one which is free (v Mseing:D )
have a great time at the footie:D (come on Man Utd )

Martin_Mac

mickey_mouse wrote: »

well done Martin on getting the extra paper round - wahoo more money coming in.

I like your stories. It is great you support a smaller team (she says supporting Man Utd:rotfl: ) My hubby supports Plymouth and I love to follow how his team is doing. I will also follow Yeovil now - just for you - well my inlaws are in Somerset (Chard) so it will be like supporting their local team:D . Do you do any of the fantasy football leagues? We do the Telegraph one which is free (v Mseing:D )
have a great time at the footie:D (come on Man Utd )

Good morning Mickey...:D

Thanks for following Yeovil, we need all the fans we can get ( and a few new players too :mad: )....

As regards the Fantasy Leagues, you're talking to someone who's obsessed with them. Both myself and the boys have got a team each in the Premiership, Championship, League One and League Two leagues. Ryan, my youngest is 8th in the Yeovil Super League out of 72 while I'm 376th in the country on the League Two one. All of them are with the Telegraph and I also organised a fantasy league on Virgin Media.com for the parents at the under-eights club I help with.

How are you doing?

Martin_Mac

Bad today, Yeovil were poor and lost 2-1.

Spend-wise, I spent £20.00 on petrol, a pound on a lottery ticket, £2.00 on car parking, £1.50 on Bovril and £2.25 on sweets ( sorry, I take defeat badly...:mad: )...

mickey_mouse

awwwwwwwwwww poor Martin - I looked up Yeovil's result earlier and saw they lost . I don't think this is the time to mention Man U winning:rotfl: .

:rotfl: at all the fantasy leagues you are in. Hubby and I are in one leage with just the 2 of us and he is beating me (prob cos he doesn't spend so many points on transfers as I do ) and in the random league I think I am in 16th place.

Martin_Mac

Restraints came off a little yesterday. Spent £2.50 on a pint after the football match ( I was the ref after all ) then went to the quiz last night and spent £5.20 on a drink each for the coach and myself. Boys won their third game in a row yesterday...:T . Got some tea on the way home which cost £3.04 but blew my diet...:mad:

UNDER-EIGHTS TEAM STORY

I helped in the start-up of a football team in March 2006. It was for children in Year One at school and offered them a chance to play football for fun in a team environment. We trained them pretty much every week for eighteen months until last September when they played their fist ever match winning 6-5. Last season was a learning curve for them but they did brilliantly winning fourteen, drawing three and losing nine. This season is more serious as their results will be taken into account for next season when they play in a competitive league for the first time.

There are two games in each match, both twenty minutes each way. I referee, assist with the coaching, run the website and fund-raise for it too. My identical twins both play, on either wing, which can cause confusion to the opposition...:D

mickey_mouse

Well done on the boys winning their match - good tactics to put them on the wings to confuddle the opposition:D

Do you get paid for reffing or is that for the older teams?

Off to work soooooon but at least it is dry here. Have a gooooooood day.

Martin_Mac

mickey_mouse wrote: »

Do you get paid for reffing or is that for the older teams?

Off to work soooooon but at least it is dry here. Have a gooooooood day.

Have a good day yourself.:D

I don't get paid for reffing but the coach normally lets me off paying subs which are £2.00 per player so it's DFW of sorts really....;)

Martin_Mac

Pretty good day today really.:D

Did my normal morning and evening runs and got my paperwork almost all done. I've got nearly 1,000 catalogues to deliver next week and I managed to get the first 160 of them in order tonight; did almost all my recycling this morning; paid my Virgin bill ( Virgin media that is, not, er, well you know...:p ), posted two football programmes and generally got more organised...:T

Today's spend. Virgin bill £66.02, Electric £10.00, Postage £1.56 and petrol £15.00 ( 15 Clubcard points )...