The ultimate incentive worked! Now onto phase two

Dinah93

Gargh! Dad ate my Graze cherrys! They only arrived today! And mum is out in my car because hers has no petrol!

Lara44

Mmmm Birdie - send us some virtual cupcakes!!! They sound lush.

Sounds as if it went much better with your Mum, although it is a pain not to be invited. But then sometimes it's good to get to do your own thing and not to have to tag along anyway.

Hey Tete and Dinah your course sounds great, you'll have to post us some pictures of some things that you make. Well done to your Bro Dinah. What is he going to study?

Dinah93

Sports Nutrition at Northumbria.

tinkerbel

hiiiii!
just a quickie post cos im off to work in a min but check this out - I just got a £150 tax refund from when a savings account of mine got taxed! I had to fill in a loooong form (took me oh and mum an hour to do all together) but I got it back today! just checked my online banking and was like "why is is so high?" such a good feeling lol! I have paid about £350 of income tax which i shouldnt be paying cos i dont earn enough, but come next april maybe I can claim that back !!
Also my little bro got his grades for uni btw and is off to study Medicine
I did an extra day at work this week (well - I haven't done it yet!) but it was to counteract a really spendy weekend lol also gonna need to put pretty much all the tax I got back to pay off my CC - been using it for this months high petrol spends!!
I'll be back in later to talk all things sewing and courses guys, yours sounds brill and i think the extra one Im doing starts on teh same day lol gotta enrol in 3 weeks but mine seems looooads more expensive - about £500

right loves ya xxxx

Cinny91

Morning Tink! That's fab about the £150 refund, I'll keep my fingers crossed for claiming back the £350 in April. Shame about having to use the £150 to pay off your CC but at least you don't need to worry about where to get the money from for it, stupid petrol charges!

Birdie - those cupcakes sound delish! I really want to try the recipe too - did they cost much to make? (that's the main thing that's putting me off!)

Things are still in bits at work, it's leading to arguements at home and I even went as far as a stress induced nose bleed last night (I know, I'm hardcore!) Looks like we're going to be reducing hours again, my Dad is starting his Winston Churchill esq speeches over the dinner table so I know he's getting worked up again. Such a pain this family business lark! I'm making it a rule over dinner tonight - No Work Talk!!
I have some course news too! I'm looking at doing a Sage Instant Payroll course, it's only £195 and will be saving the company 3k a year. Yay!

Managed to move £53 into savings this week :T Gave my Uncle £10 in a card to put towards some stuff he wants to get which leaves me with £40 for the week and £100 in the bank for Direct Debits. Spending the afternoon with my Grandad yesterday really kicked my saving mentality back into frame. I think when I'm wavering I just need to spend some time with my G-pops!

Dinah93

Great news on the £150 Tink.

Shame the company still is looking a bit unsteady Cinny, but the course sounds excellent.

NIM is calling up about a sparkie course today, it's on at Darlington college on an evening, but we're not sure if its what he needs to learn, or is utterly irrelevant! If its relevant though it would be really handy for him to know. Failing that there is a plastering or decorating one at Redcar, but it's further away and he'd prefer plumbing or electrics.

I could see myself getting really hooked on evening courses (so could NIM tbf!), there is some good looking baking and cooking ones on in the area, as well as lots of glasswork, jewellery and blacksmithing ones, and a councelling one I would love to do starting in Feb. Just a shame my nearest provider (Stockton) is beyond useless and don't seem to have anything on offer in the evening unless you want to make rocking horses.

Birdie85

Good Morning!
Well done on the refund Tink! And well done on the savings Cinny! Not so good about the nosebleed though! But good about the Sage course!
We bought some other bits at the same time as getting stuff for the cupcakes and I had to buy sugar and bun cases so I don't really know how much it all cost... luckily Oreos were 1/3 off in Sainsbury's so it was less than it should have been! I only made half the recipe and got about 30 fairy cake sized buns out of it, I would have run out of kitchen room if I'd made the full recipe amount!

Tete_en_l'Air

Morning girlies (and Pollie and NIM if you're around!) *squints through half-open eyes*

Tink that's fantastic news about the refund, well worth an hours form-filling, even if it does go on petrol. What's the course you're doing?

Birdie, I really wanna try those cupcakes too they sound and look fab. Had a bake-a-thon myself last night, made some vanilla cupcakes with purple icing (no longer a piping virgin!!) and some hazelnut chocolate cupcakes with Nutella in the middle and my Graze hazelnuts from last week on the top :money:(I think it's worthy of a twirly Martin, hazelnuts are expensive!). I was like a machine though, every time I put one batch in the oven I was busy washing up or preparing the next batch Got loads to take down to the girlies in York tomorrow and some to keep OH happy :rolleyes:

Dinah how annoying your dad eating your cherries and your mum driving your car, talk about taking liberties!

Cinny, that sounds horrible about the stressy home life but I did smile at you likening your dad to Winston! Definitely no work talk tonight, it's the weekend after all! Sage course sounds good not only for the present but also for any future jobs you go for - you see ads all the time where they want you to be familiar with Sage.

I think that's all I wanted to say, sorry for the hijack. I'm off for a snooze under my desk!:o

ETA because I'm slow at typing - I agree about Stockton Dinah, everything's on during the day meaning that the only people who can go to them are the ones who are getting it all free anyway, grr!

Thanks for the cheap Oreos tip Birdie, I'm off to see if I can stock up at dinner time!

Birdie85

Dinah93 wrote: »

I could see myself getting really hooked on evening courses (so could NIM tbf!), there is some good looking baking and cooking ones on in the area, as well as lots of glasswork, jewellery and blacksmithing ones, and a councelling one I would love to do starting in Feb. Just a shame my nearest provider (Stockton) is beyond useless and don't seem to have anything on offer in the evening unless you want to make rocking horses.

Count yourself lucky, I'm desperate to do fun arty courses and the only thing in my area is garden design (I've got no garden!) and watercolours for pleasure in the mid afternoon! If I travel to Pateley Bridge which is about 30 mins away I can do a jewellery course... it starts in January so I think I'll see if I still want to do it then and if i can be bothered with the trip! The closest thing to a sewing course is a one day Sewing for Men course to teach guys to attach buttons and mend tears!

Dinah93

Its a shame really, as the Stockton courses are held in Billingham, so would be a perfect location for me or NIM to go to on the way home from work.

I think mum put £10 in the car, and dad apologised for the cherries, I think I was just over tired and stressy last night.