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  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    Oh, are any of you fans of Monty Python? Trying to build up a good piece of research to go into my portfolio and wondered if anyone knew any good links?
    ** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **
    ** Fat Bum Shrinking: -7/56lbs **
    **SPC 2012 #1498 -£152 and 1499 ***
    I do it all because I'm scared.
  • bank_of_slate
    bank_of_slate Posts: 12,922 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    elfen wrote: »
    Oh, are any of you fans of Monty Python? Trying to build up a good piece of research to go into my portfolio and wondered if anyone knew any good links?

    On the comedy central channel there's a Monty Python marathon this weekend I think because it's the 30th anniversary!
    ...Linda xx
    It's easy to give in to that negative voice that chants "cant do it" BUT we lift each other up.
    We dont count all the runners ahead of us & feel intimidated.
    Instead we look back proudly at our journey, our personal struggle & determination & remember that there are those that never even attempt to reach the starting line.
  • elfen
    elfen Posts: 10,213 Forumite
    I know I have that channel, and now I know I will be watching it! Yay, I planned this perfectly! Our project is very Pythonesque in it's a sketch and it's quite long (2 minutes) and in that quite a few madcap things happen (and I'm one of the "actors" so I better practise my silly walk)
    ** Total debt: £6950.82 ± May NSDs 1/10 **
    ** Fat Bum Shrinking: -7/56lbs **
    **SPC 2012 #1498 -£152 and 1499 ***
    I do it all because I'm scared.
  • sammy115
    sammy115 Posts: 15,267 Forumite
    :hello: hello and :hello bye......wooooooosssssshhhhh

    Off home now...brb
    Quality is doing something right when no one is looking - Henry Ford
  • sallyx
    sallyx Posts: 15,815 Forumite
    Sammy is a mad thing again today!

    Been and taken DD swimming, so thats out the way for the week and this evening I am going to do a bit of crafty stuff and might even get the majority of the christmas shopping done so I know where I am finanically :)
    I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change And breakaway. I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change and breakaway ....
    Finally Debt Free...
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,517 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    becky_rtw wrote: »
    *whispers* I'm a month and a half away from the roll of honour...so close I can almost taste it!


    Becky~You can go off people you know:p:p:rotfl::rotfl:
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    I'm firmly in the 'no PJs' camp I'm afraid, for similar reasons to Becky - they just make me look shapeless and dumpy (I'm not exactly lithe to begin with lol).

    I wear similar to the Fig Leaves chemise, although I don't go for anything quite so translucent, as it would be a bit much with 2 kids around, lol.

    I have a couple of really pretty Debenhams ones though, and a couple of plainer ones.

    I love having a bath, doing all the usual grooming/pampering things, then wearing something like that to sit with a glass of wine, browsing the net. There's something nice about having made an effort just for yourself, just because you wanted to.

    Not much choice mind you - no-one else to make an effort for.

    Mr Sunday had the cheek to call my prettiest neglige a nightie once! Unforgiveable!!! :rotfl:
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
    9780007258925
  • Gemmzie
    Gemmzie Posts: 14,876 Forumite
    (Land_of)_Maz wrote: »
    Good luck for the new job....

    So, he's OH now is he?? seems serious! i like it!!!!

    Yeah we've been official for about three weeks now, went to a dinner and dance the other weekend and was introduced to his friends as his girlfriend. :D:o
    Getting seriously close to the L word :eek::happyhear
    No longer using this account for new posts from 2013
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,517 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Great news on CRB's at last Jaqs :)
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,517 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Oh blimey the l word Gemmzie.
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.     ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
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