Pay off mortgage and start having fun!

AlexLK

1 1/2 hour commute cannot be any fun, NG.

smallholdingsister

That must have been terrifying...car on fire?

newgirly

Car booked in for the 10th so hopefully no more nightmares

The commute is worse in the mornings , but its not that bad - I take my little brother and it gives us a good long time to moan about our parents on the way :rotfl:

Decided to go to the pumpkin farm today after hearing about pumpkin shortage scare stories - it was shut due to flooding so no pumpkins this year financially its done me a favour as we went to mr t and got 4 ( supposedly!) large ones for £6 ,along with my white one and red devil one we have 6 to carve :j.
Hmmm will 6 be enough?

newgirly

Love the pumpkins bluefire! the bottom left one would look great carved in our white one .

AlexLK

Bluefire: They're brilliant.

CathT

You have inspired me to get some templates for ours Bluefire, they're great! We normally go freehand but the children would love these.

We are going next week Newgirly, first time and I can't wait!

newgirly

Hope you have a great time cath

Love the spider pumpkin, will have a try myself I think.

I have added up the grocery spending wrong :. the petrol was from mr t As well as the shop, hooray I've spent less than I thought! £344.39 not £380 + so far, not as badly over budget as I thought.

Rang the chelsea today and have an appointment for next week to review the last application to go repayment and extend the term again, worth a try as they said they would review when we make massive ops - which we have done the last few months. It may be too early to try but , its only 10 mins and I can spare that.:D

Going to see spectre tomorrow with ds2 and dd after work, meerkat movies of course,. £11.29 for three of us. £1Land for snacks and drinks naturally :money:

The oven is broken and blowing out cold air so hopefully its just the heating element. I do have a top oven but its a bit rubbish. Its a bit old as it used to be my parents , not sure how long they are supposed to last really , its probably 12 years old or so.

AlexLK

Bluefire: I'm very impressed.

NG: Sorry to hear about the oven and good luck with the mortgage.

newgirly

What a day, manic busy day at work and then met ds2 and dd to watch spectre and the lovely Daniel Craig. :happyhear Won't spoil it but very enjoyable ( except for the woman a few seats along who rustled her way through a years worth of sweets so much that me and dd got a very bad case of the giggles. ( better than the alternative of me saying what I wanted to say to her!)

Afterwards in a wave of daniel craig euphoria I decided to take everyone out to the h*rvester for dinner with a 20% off voucher, except ds2 lost the voucher on the way. Then ds1's dinner was wrong and mine was wrong not once but twice. :eek: By this time everyone else had finished, so I complained and got 2x free meals and 20% off the rest, total spend £27. It's the first time for may years I have complained but It was really bad , I had to have a cheese sarnie at home

Hopefully tomorrow will be better , although I do start the day with a lady doctor 3 yearly routine appointment which is not my favourite pastime :rotfl:

greent

Decent result (money wise) in the end for the meal
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