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Burlesque Babe's Re-building life but back in debt diary

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  • pepe2008
    pepe2008 Posts: 5,158 Forumite
    Gardening........stick everything in pots, pave the ground, re-arrange occassionally:D
    :D:D stay wonky :D:D

    ....one-way ticket to Portugal booked !
  • Burlesque_Babe
    Burlesque_Babe Posts: 17,547 Forumite
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    sounds like my kind of gardening pepe - especially the 'pave the ground' bit!!

    Lenny - I would treat you to as many pints as you could handle in return for a bit of weeding!!!!
    :D"Stay Wonky":D

    :j:jBecome Mrs Pepe 9 October 2012 :j:j
  • pepe2008
    pepe2008 Posts: 5,158 Forumite
    Still lovely and warm, have found a bottle of pink Cava in the fridge. We are now going to look at the garden from a horizontal position to see if anything is growing at the moment.
    May just watch the ants though. Its good to have purpose in life:D
    :D:D stay wonky :D:D

    ....one-way ticket to Portugal booked !
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    sounds like my kind of gardening pepe - especially the 'pave the ground' bit!!

    Concrete: It's the new grass.
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
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    OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • System
    System Posts: 178,390 Community Admin
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    sounds like my kind of gardening pepe - especially the 'pave the ground' bit!!

    Lenny - I would treat you to as many pints as you could handle in return for a bit of weeding!!!!
    im an expert at weeding ;)
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  • Burlesque_Babe
    Burlesque_Babe Posts: 17,547 Forumite
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    I got my incremental pay rise this month :j:T

    A whole 30p per hour more :rolleyes: - before tax :eek:

    OK, I have £680 salary this month to play with. Well, not so much play, rather wring my hands with despair, but it will be fine.

    I really need to buy some contact lenses, I only have 2 or 3 old prescription ones left. I think I'll use my new CC for some, that will be around £30 which I can then pay off next month and it will trigger the free flights voucher.

    One of my shares is showing an £80-£100 profit today. I am tempted to pull the profit again, I think I'll wait until tomorrow to see if it goes up a bit more. I know very little about shares so not sure if it's the right thing to do, but I think if they are going to dip, they do it in the afternoon so I'll wait until tomorrow and see.
    :D"Stay Wonky":D

    :j:jBecome Mrs Pepe 9 October 2012 :j:j
  • (Land_of)_Maz
    (Land_of)_Maz Posts: 11,738 Forumite
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    sounds like my kind of gardening pepe - especially the 'pave the ground' bit!!

    Lenny - I would treat you to as many pints as you could handle in return for a bit of weeding!!!!

    Just need the 3 pints then!
    pepe2008 wrote: »
    Still lovely and warm, have found a bottle of pink Cava in the fridge. We are now going to look at the garden from a horizontal position to see if anything is growing at the moment.
    May just watch the ants though. Its good to have purpose in life:D

    is that a euphimism for something else??
    I'm just a seething mass of contradictions....
    (it's part of my charm!)
  • jinky67
    jinky67 Posts: 47,812 Forumite

    I really need to buy some contact lenses, I only have 2 or 3 old prescription ones left. I think I'll use my new CC for some, that will be around £30 which I can then pay off next month and it will trigger the free flights voucher.

    make sure you check out the forums for the cheapest deal though. I know probably a lot of your cost is because of your prescription though:p
    :heartpulsOnce a Flylady, always a Flylady:heartpuls
  • Burlesque_Babe
    Burlesque_Babe Posts: 17,547 Forumite
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    edited 22 April 2009 at 1:39PM
    tbh jinks, lenses are the same price whatever the strength, I buy the fortnightly ones and usually pay around £28 for 6 pairs and wear them for 3 weeks or so rather than the fortnight. The only problem I have is because they are a high prescription they sometimes aren't readily available and I've had them arrive from all over the world - Canada, Sweden, the USA! I'll definitely do a quick scan of the boards. I think I used Lensway last time.
    :D"Stay Wonky":D

    :j:jBecome Mrs Pepe 9 October 2012 :j:j
  • jinky67
    jinky67 Posts: 47,812 Forumite
    can you not check out Dailies.....I am sure the last time I checked it out mine would be £20 or so
    :heartpulsOnce a Flylady, always a Flylady:heartpuls
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