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5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2
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Thank you DD, it's okay
. Bad losers should never tease if they can't take it in return. If they spit the dummy I ignore them.
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PK & CCP (((hugs))) hope your day is not as bad as you are expecting x
Chicken, sorry to hear about your chook x
DD - such sad news about Dr Oliver Smith
Vicky A how awful about the break-inSadly these days schools are a target. I live opposite an infant school & a junior school. Both have had several break-ins and the junior school had the lead pinched off its roof
Pleasures for yesterday:
1. good sleep
2. warm breezy day. Lots of washing done and dried on the line
3. heating still off
4. DS helped me put a coat of paint on the hallway. Only 2 more to go
5. nice chat with DParents on phone. DF gave DS some good advice re his new job. Hes come to a bit of a dilemma to do with the fact that he has also now been invited to interview for PCSO, but I think hes close to making a decision
May have to go back to Doc later today. Am currently looking quite g h o u l ish (!!!) as my eyes have turned RED (and its not even halloween!) Think its a side effect of the anti-b I am taking for my swollen/painful leg
Have a good day everyone x0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗
Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).
Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1
Living off savings diary
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Good morning all !
thankyou all re the hen
CCP - good luck today x
PK - I hope that you are ok?
VickyA - gosh bliddy burglars:mad:
5 for yesterday
1. A teeny courgette seed has sprouted in the greenhouse !
2. Spent the day doing the asssignment Mcculloch.....;)
3. It was hot here !
4. Made OH a cottage pie for tea - had fried rice simple but used up stuff in the fridge .OH got some rtc curries for Monday (79p each !)
5. Stole the terrier in the evening all three of us cuddled up on the sofa (covered in dog blanket , I'm not that skanky )- she was not impressed to find me earlier in the day covered in paper and books as she didn't get much attention .
Have a good day all:AToo fat to be Felicity Kendal , but aim for a bit more of the good life :A0 -
Looks as if I'm back to all thanks/apparently posted posts etc, being wiped - please take them as read.
Last night after 100mins of trying to get the darned thing to start properly, gave up.
I'll try again, while conditioner attempts miracle hour on hair.
Hoping all is well in the mhags family.
bop-I echoed sparrer in prev lost post re: tabloid oickness of social networks. Surprised you have anything to do with it. Scrabble, however, is another matter entirely. Best birthday wishes to Lady bop.
1.Resumed Spits on Thursday and much relieved to have done so. Finds noted here flew out. So, moderate banking a relief, with MOT, insurance, gas bill still to do, but car tax done. 3-£fig balance to come this week on carved framed mirror for which good deposit was taken - really helps my confidence. Further, was taken aback by genuine welcomes and concern over absence.
2. I'm no golfer, but the Masters was exciting to listen to.
3. Booked day rtn to France to avoid being in this country on Wednesday, a personal, principled stance. I'll stop by Dover's wonderful miner's statue as I leave and on return - bookending - then straight to Spitalfields, hopefully without police intervention this time. I remember fully our campaigning for Glenda Jackson's first election, waiting into the early hours until she arrived for the count and declaration, and am glad that youtube has allowed me to hear her speaking soundly, judiciously, accurately, post-thatcher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=n052Q1lxmNg
4. Warmth and light have returned, although booters suffered yesterday in strong gusts. Sounds of breakage, flying clothing, tipped over rails, happened not just once.
5. More good chat with M, Spits patron, at Trumpington, He[and 2 other strangers walking around]'Wow!'d at my pukeko gummies, asked for particulars. M's ordering a pair for wife.
6. Hoped I'd left wallet back here - an eek! moment - but had pouch of change in glovebox, which I keep for long-hauler visits. Bought a didgeridoo and 2 parisian-style folding tables+4 chairs, red-painted metal with little central diamond punch-out pattern, for £6. On verra.
7. Waitrose free cappuccino and rtc 5p pains aux raisins, sweet corn fritters, lamb samosas, all perfect for freezer and/or Wednesday.
8. A propos of nothing, suddenly found self thinking of CUBG and that Trumpington P&R bus passed it. Terminus is all but adjacent to w8rs, so... Bus was waiting, off we set. I spent a wonderful afternoon in the Gardens[have Membership]until chucking-out time and last bus back, which nice driver had advised. 3 end-of-day cheapo herbs - sweet woodruff, horseradish, borage,[paid on plastic so not really ns, but...a lovely, lovely few hours. Followed scented bushes and flowers and, as usual, offered several times to take pics of groups, so photographer didn't have to miss out.
9. Pukeko gummies were perfect for walking in water over lake-y bits and submerged stepping stones:-)
10.Time to rinse hair now. A new week with new weather, although blowy still. Time to re-read Ode to The West Wind after all:-) even though it's autumnal, we can all be lifted with the last words:
'.......O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
[and the 'pumice isle' always has me back in aotearoa, picking up same from some empty beach, most recently this time last year on a sweeping white sanded Northland infinity, in company of D, old school friend]CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
01274 760721, freephone0800 328 0006'People don't want much. They want: "Someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for."
Norman Kirk, NZLP- Prime Minister, 1972
***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET
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Ampersand - nice to see you "up and about". I, too, would love to be out of the country on Weds - alas it is not possible.
Glenda Jackson :T Check out David Winnick also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wAaAAjOOq0I wanna be in the room where it happens0 -
Morning
Pleasures for the weekend,
Saturday
1. Lazy Saturday morning but did get a loaf in the BM and some washing on the line
2. Trip to London with OH so we could sort out some birthday presents
3. OH bought me lunch, didn't really have any choice and we had a few beers in a micro-brewery.
4. Walk along the South Bank, nice to get the fresh air along the river but was a bit wet.
5. As got back at a reasonable time decided to head straight back out and get the food shopping done, £5 under budget which has been set aside.
Sunday
1. I was awake at 6 so got up and made OH a cup of coffee before he went to golf. I took a cup of tea back to bed and read for a bit in the peace and quiet.
2. Roasted a chicken and stripped down ready for sandwiches in the week and while the oven was on made a batch of breakfast muffins.
3. Bed stripped and bedding washed and all dry on the line. Lovely feeling of sleeping in clean bedding
4. DD back from my parents, I met her at Kings Cross to help with her bags as knew she would come back with more that she went with. She was very pleased to see me.
5. Invited out to dinner last night with in-laws to celebrate FIL birthday. Very nice dinner and good company.
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Thankyou for the David Winnick linky, vjm - a truly decent man.
It also allowed me to see a rather different left-field response from the sound Gisela Stewart, whose result was the first one we saw, that sea-change year. Have also now heard Michael Meacher,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYhUQhctTvY
and Frank Field - people I heard, read, admired and respected then and now. FF's recall of Bishop David Shepherd's character is beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BZgazMV68
Thankyou again vjm - I'll be wearing my NZLP pin and red.
This is the Kent Miner's statue:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kent+miner%27s+statue&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=seJrUf2lH4fGPIHzgKAK&sqi=2&ved=0CGoQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=647CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
01274 760721, freephone0800 328 0006'People don't want much. They want: "Someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for."
Norman Kirk, NZLP- Prime Minister, 1972
***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET
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1. springs here
2. grass is growing
3. daffodils out in the garden
4. DS made the lunch
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Thank you DD, it's okay
. Bad losers should never tease if they can't take it in return. If they spit the dummy I ignore them.
BoP appears curtesy of Ms Slack. Any comment that is purely sexist will be deleted.
Typical, I is at home all weekend and & comes in with loads of tearfull youtub videos and I am on the phone. Will snot be the same at the weekend. Mind you in 1997 Ms Jackson appeared at Ayr College during some ballot. I asked her Morecombe and Wise appearance.
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Evening all.
1) The hospital appointment this morning was rather unpleasant, as I expected, but the site of the operation isn't quite as painful as it was last time, which I guess is a pleasure of sorts. Another pleasure of sorts was listening to the consultant trying to explain what needed doing and why - and why it wasn't done properly first time round - without criticising the person who did the original operation, who was apparently the consultant's boss.
2) The van which was parked in my parking space over the weekend finally moved so I could put my car back where it belonged before going to the hospital - a relief as I can't drive now, and probably won't be able to for several days.
3) Agreed with my line manager that I won't even try going to work tomorrow.
4) Checked my work email and found that we got a refund for the over-ripe fruit I rescued on Friday, so it's not just free for me but for the department as well. :money:
5) Sunshine nearly all day, which is nice to look at even if I'm in no state to go out in it.Back after a very long break!0
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