The ultimate incentive worked! Now onto phase two

Birdie85

I don't know what strain it is Cinny! I must admit to mentally switching off when they talk about it! If I got it I'd probably just think I had a regular cold anyway so I don't believe I'd be panicking about it!
Hi Sam! It's never too late to join, we've had a few newbies show up recently! Well done debtbusting!

Dinah93

No one is ever too late to say hi here, join the club.

Bad mornings for computers, somehow I've managed to make all my word documents think that they are spreadsheets, it's making my job very challenging!

Happy Birthday Tinkerbel! Enjoy the national trust day out.

Hope the engagement tour goes well and its nice seeing all the family Lara.

Know what you mean about TPA's sig, she puts me to shame, it's absolutely phenomenal!

Got my job by being in the right place at the right time actually, my dad works for the council as the museums curator, and they'd been trying to get someone for the job for years. My dad knew that I had the skills for the side of the job they were struggling to fill so suggested me to his boss. Problem was that everyone and their dog can use a camera, and there is no shortage of people who want to be a photographer, but there is a huge shortage of people who can actually do the technical side of things ie using a darkroom to develop negatives. So what they did in the end was ask me if I would work part time, about 2-3 days a fortnight on a casual basis doing the darkroom work, and they gave someone else a 4 day a week job to do the documentation side of the role. Was a fantastic job, as as well as taking pics of events, I got to develop the really rare old glass plate negatives, and got paid for fiddling about with chemicals all day long!

It's a legal requirement for companies to have appropriate disaster plans in place Birdie, as a council we have simulation training days where we stage various disasters (chemical leaks, plagues, huge road accidents, that kind of thing). As a borough we're a bit stuffed if a pandemic does hit as we're short of trained grave diggers, so we'd have to burn the bodies off in the big chemical works!!!!

Dinah93

Oh I forgot to tell you, last night about 9pm I got a call from NIM:
"erm, honey, Tesco have said my bank is declining my card"
"oh, oops that'll be me, I paid £7 off the virgin card earlier so you're £2 short, one sec and I'll move it over from savings, okay, done"
...NIM comes home later, still hasn't paid for the petrol as they still won't take his card. Very odd I think, so I go with him back to tesco and pay on my card. This morning I realise it wasn't my £2 that meant he couldn't pay, he'd forgotten he'd gotten £10 of phone credit and spent £7.20 on a prescription!

Money tight again this week, basically cos we are trying to get 4 1/2 weeks rent from 3 weeks of NIMs wages. We're going to finish putting the rent into the rent account today from my account, and then he'll have to send it back to my account next week so I don't end up in the overdraft.

Things will be a lot easier once we go onto monthly pay for both, but at the moment his weekly pay is driving me batty because we always seem to be short! God knows how we're going to afford the train tickets over to his home once we're actually in Ireland next week!

Birdie85

Dinah93 wrote: »

It's a legal requirement for companies to have appropriate disaster plans in place Birdie, as a council we have simulation training days where we stage various disasters (chemical leaks, plagues, huge road accidents, that kind of thing). As a borough we're a bit stuffed if a pandemic does hit as we're short of trained grave diggers, so we'd have to burn the bodies off in the big chemical works!!!!

Blimey! At least our Disaster Recovery Plans just say something like 'Make existing staff work harder and release less work every day'! LOL!

Tete_en_l'Air

I actually haven't seen any kind of Disaster Plans here which is a bit worrying as it's a university , never mind though, like Cinny says it's out of control, there are probably no more people dying of swine flu every day than dying of normal flu. Still felt a bit uncomfortable when a man allowed the toddler in his arms to cough all over me in the supermarket queue the other day though!

Cinny91 wrote: »

Ordered the last of my sisters birthday presents, just a few bits from Lady Luck rules OK, but I couldn't stop myself and ended up getting a lucky dip bag. Oh well, what's a girl to do?!

I was the same with my friend's birthday "One for Holly, one for me..." :o But some of it was bought on Dooyoo Amazon vouchers :T

Dinah yet again your money management bamboozles me!

Hi Sam!!

Happytogetdebtfree

hi guys just having break so making use of my I phone hehe so seems like everyone is on swine flu alert we need mask fittings because of the area we work in. How's everyone debt busting day? X

samedwards27

Hi everyone! Its nice to be made to feel so welcome!!! :j

I know what you mean about the Swine Flu, I work for the NHS so you can imagine the amount of 'updates' we are getting through, I must have had at least 1 a day since it all started, and im not even a nurse or anything!

Anyone up to anything exciting this weekend? I am afraid for me its packing :rolleyes: me and OH are moving the end of May, and I hate to say it, but typical male...im doing most of the sorting! Though to be fair, he cant win poor thing, if he does some i usually moan that its wrong!

Dinah93

NIMs got an "exciting" day lined up tomorrow - 12 MS! Comes to £92 for about a £15 petrol spend though. He did have 15 but I've moved a few so now he has 7 or so on Monday, and 2 on Wednesday. Really irritated that a bank in the town where I work came up for him but not for me! However, I formed a cunning plan that if he comes to do it, he can take me to Gisborough Hall for dinner before we go to the theatre (love gisborough hall, food is delicious! Saw a couple getting married there in the snow when we went for our staff do 3 years ago, very romantic)

Cinny91

It'll be worth all the hard work once it's all done and you're ready to go Samedwards!

Going to the cinema with OH tomorrow, and I think he's working Sunday so it'll be spent watching movies,baking and bike rides.

Set myself a save to then buy goal again. I've got until the end of May to save £600 (not much, only £200) then I can buy myself the Kenwood mixer I've had my eye on for years!

Poor NIM! You'll have to make him a packed lunch Dinah to keep his energy levels up! What is it you're going to the theatre for?

Right, I'm off. Weekend time! Have a nice time everyone.

Dinah93

Oooh we have lots of free arts spark theatre tickets lined up - not even sure which performance we're going to until we get there half the time!

Packed lunch is a good idea Cinny.

£600 for a mixer?!?!?! Have I misunderstood? Surely they can't charge that much for a glorified whisk??? I feel a bit faint!