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  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 28,986 Forumite
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    :beer:
    Lol - of course I care! I feel like I know a lot of people on this thread. Hope you get to go away tomorrow.Do you think you will your pay before Xmas?
    Thanks! They have told me they processed my pay too late - so I will be paid a week late again... I think I am going to push for weekly pay as this is beyond a joke!

    Sorry to hear about your nightmare weekend - what a palava - and presumably extra cost too - glad you are managing to breathe and relax :rotfl:

    CAFCgirl - I don't think I was ever a 6/8 - unless it was when I was about eight or something. I was slim but never mega slim....! Not slim now sadly :rolleyes:
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.1/£127.5K target 24.4% 15/8/25
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • CAFCGirl
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    :beer:
    Thanks! They have told me they processed my pay too late - so I will be paid a week late again... I think I am going to push for weekly pay as this is beyond a joke!

    Sorry to hear about your nightmare weekend - what a palava - and presumably extra cost too - glad you are managing to breathe and relax :rotfl:

    CAFCgirl - I don't think I was ever a 6/8 - unless it was when I was about eight or something. I was slim but never mega slim....! Not slim now sadly :rolleyes:

    me neither now.... fat baby :rolleyes:
    Wealth is not measured by currency
  • Still stranded. Am (hopefully) on a flight out of Brussels Charleroi tonight to Dublin. Have had to get my parents to pack my bags to bring back to Dublin.

    Breathing no longer working - very stressed. Eurostar don't care less and have given us no extra options to get home. My parents are now stranded in the UK and their flight has been delayed for 6 hours. :mad::mad::mad:
    Total (Aug 19):€58,567 Now:€26,947
    DFD:Nov 22/June 22
    Mortgage: €199,712
    MFD: March 2042/July 2034
  • CAFCGirl
    CAFCGirl Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    oh my god, thats awful.....

    apparently the trains dont work in certain temps, and they get stuck in tunnel. thats what DH's fire service lot have told him......

    no words of comfort im afraid hun but hope you can catch the flight and the family travel safely xx
    Wealth is not measured by currency
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 28,986 Forumite
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    cmd that is so disappoint for you - hope you get to Ireland okay for xmas
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £174.8K Equity 32.77%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.3K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.1/£127.5K target 24.4% 15/8/25
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • CAFCGirl
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    me thinks eurostar may receive a few strongly worded letters and have to shell out a fair old amount in compo!
    Wealth is not measured by currency
  • tirlittan
    tirlittan Posts: 3,397 Forumite
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    Hiya ladies!

    Been absent due to entertaining my dad this week. He had trouble getting here and going back. His flight was due to leave 6am today so we had to get up at 3. Well, we were supposed to, but been really tired and suffering from cold so put alarm on for 3pm rather than 3am...:o Thankfully my dad woke up at half past and we got to the airport in plenty of time. Don't know why didn't bother mentioning at the check-in that the flights were delayed,lots of problems at Amsterdam airport. Anyway, so they tried to get my dad on a flight from Cardiff to Birmingham to Paris to Helsinki, but thankfully second leg was fully booked and he didn't have to do that. It was -20C at Paris this morning so he might of been stranded there. Instead, he managed to get the airline to pay his taxi to Heathrow to take a straight flight to Helsinki at 3pm today. So it'll be along day for him, but at least if the plane leaves (looking good, other flights have been made today, even if they've left bit later than scheduled) he'll get straight home with no extra landing. But what a nightmare...

    Hope all are well. If I would've had to come to work straight after taking my dad, I would've called in sick as my throat was burning. After 4 hours extra sleep, felt better and got to work at 10. Had cleared it with my line manager earlier, said I might need some extra sleep after taking my dad. :rolleyes: Just today and tomorrow though and then off for 5 days.

    Still staying at my BFs for Xmas even though his oven is kaput so no roast dinner... :(
    DEBT FREE OCTOBER 2012!
    Proud to have dealt with my debts!
  • CAFCGirl
    CAFCGirl Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    ooooooooooooh no!!!

    no roast dinner for xmas...
    ive been chatting to my sister about what theyre cooking and it's all so yummy xx
    I cant wait to cook a christmas dinner in our new house next year (when we get one) with baby L (when he gets here!)
    Wealth is not measured by currency
  • Hi all,

    I managed to get home to Ireland. My parents did too. I feel like I am getting the flu though and feel rubbish
    Total (Aug 19):€58,567 Now:€26,947
    DFD:Nov 22/June 22
    Mortgage: €199,712
    MFD: March 2042/July 2034
  • CAFCGirl
    CAFCGirl Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    rest up hun, its probs all that stress on your body!

    Glad everyone got home safe xx
    Wealth is not measured by currency
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