greent's mfw journey

CathT

What a thoughtful DH you have. Your trip sounded great despite the dodgy food, glad you binned it!

gallygirl

Do you think that maybe you had a slight touch of the novovirus that athletes at the Tower Hotel had? Hope you've made a full recovery.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

What a lovely surprise

Hope you're back to normal now.

Love MB toiletries.

Brought back some memories. My first job in London was in Holborn:)

Tilly xxx

Karmacat

gallygirl wrote: »

Do you think that maybe you had a slight touch of the novovirus that athletes at the Tower Hotel had?

I wondered about that ... hope you're doing better, greent.

greent

Thanks all - yes - it was lovely

I'm inclined to believe it was 'contaminated' food, rather than norovirus - OH and I ate the same food all weekend (he was fine) and I react quite quickly when I eat such an item and felt totally fine until the lunch.

Anyway, moving on from that. This week has been drizzly and damp. Not much done - and rent was late for BTL again (arrived after I chased - but £20 short....) BUT I have paid another £405 OP to BTL :T - slowly slowly baby steps :D

2 fleabay items sold - netting me a whole £10! Ah well - better than nothing, I guess! Still have a whole heap to list. Have 3 watchers on a £50 item too, so am hoping 1 turns into a bid..... Also have a growing pile for Ziffit and a couple of old pieces of tech for Music Magpie. Now just to motivate myself to deal with it all

Feels like Saturday today - OH is home (as usual on a Fri) but abandoned work at midday - full of a heavy cold, so is curled up on a sofa with a fluffy blanket. I need to get his expenses up straight - but need his brain working (ie: not full of a cold) to help!

Best be off and feed the brood now, I guess
x

smallholdingsister

Annoying about the buy to let. Do you have a strategy?

brizzledfw

Sounds a great trip, the Boro is usually great so very sorry you had a dodgy meal. (And agree you can't beat a piece of GWR fruit cake )

My house has had a succession of people feeling ill over the last fortnight...brings everyone down..its so wintry I lit the stove last night which did cheer us up. Hope OH feels better soon.

greent

Full rent is now in from the BTL - it's just annoying that I'm having to chase it most months. They are 11 months into a 2 year lease. Part of the issue is they get paid weekly and don't seem to be able to budget fabulously for large monthly bills (I always get any shortfalls/ late payments on the Fri - which is payday). Rent is due 10th monthly (their choice - we originally went for 1st monthly but they asked for the date to be changed as other payments were due month end/ first of month)

I think we're just going to wait and see. If they want to have more time after the original 2 years then I may a- put the rent up slightly (a clause allows for annual increases, but I'm not going to increase it this year) and b - see if I can get a small late payment fee of some sort established if they want a formal length of time agreed (as opposed to running on on a month-to-month basis) just to cover my time spent monitoring and chasing.

After dithering over selling/ keeping on and off for a few years we are inclined to keep it and pay off mortgage - meaning we'll have an asset (currently selling for around 105k) bringing in a gross annual income (currently of 6.4k) It is *relatively* easy money and they sell quite quickly, should we ever need to realise the capital.

Brizzle - agree, BM is fab for food - I should probably have played safe and had food from one of the many other stalls with no shellfish on. I was very impressed by the fab labelling re vegan/ vegetarian/ allergens on the vast majority - there was a good choice of vegan/ gf/ dairy free foods around.

Oh still full of man flu (it's been upgraded - sigh...) I have a scratchy throat, decreased breath capacity, a persistant slight headache and slight sniffles - and am tired and snappy (although some would say nothing new there! ) but nothing which renders me incapable We are meant to be attending a 1yo's party today, though - and as well as small people there will be a 6.5month pregnant person there and I'm not convinced it's a good idea to be in contact with them. OH disagrees and wants to go for a couple of hours.....

Weather here was lovely yesterday. It is noticeably cooler on an evening - but bedroom windows are still open all night.

shangaijimmy

I'll stick up for Mr GT...

Us men folk feel bugs much worse given out less robust immune systems than female counterparts... Female hormones allow for stronger immune systems which are needed for the whole pregnancy/child rearing type stuff.

So in defence you can't compete with 6 thousand years of evolution

smallholdingsister

Ha ha ha!

Get well soon Mr GT.

Mr Small (see what I did there?) suffers terribly with dire viruses which he always miraculously recovers from in time for work. Guess I should admire his work ethic?