Coffee and chocolate

MatyMoo

Tissues needed for both programmes Miggy

And get that order placed

miggy

Order done and dusted.

Tissues on hand definitely!

miggy

Came across this: 'Toads' by Philip Larkin. I'm sure I've heard some of these sentiments somewhere on these boards, though whether no one actually starves is a matter for debate.

Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life?
Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off?

Six days of the week it soils
With its sickening poison -
Just for paying a few bills.
That's out of proportion.

Lots of folk live on their wits:
Lecturers, lispers,
Losels, loblolly-men, louts-
They don't end as paupers;

Lots of folk live up lanes
With fires in a bucket,
Eat windfalls and tinned sardines-
they seem to like it.

Their nippers have got bare feet,
Their unspeakable wives
Are skinny as whippets -and yet
No one actually starves.

Ah, were I courageous enough
To shout Stuff your pension!
But I know, all too well, that's the stuff
That dreams are made on:

For something sufficiently toad-like
Squats in me, too;
Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,
And cold as snow,

And will never allow me to blarney
My way of getting
The fame and the girl and the money
All at one sitting.

I don't say, one bodies the other
One's spiritual truth;
But I do say it's hard to lose either,
When you have both.

miggy

How ironic: after I posted this I was asked if I could cover at work tomorrow! The windfalls and tinned sardines looked very appealing but after a while humming and ha-ing I've accepted a few hours.

Off to spend some more on Black Friday - spotted something I know DH would enjoy, and which I've been wishing I could get for him for the last two years, at about a third of the prices I've seen before. Good job I have some extra income to make tomorrow.

Lemon_Tree

i don't know if you're interested and if you have excel but i have a spreadsheet (shared by Essex Hebridian) which shows you how much difference a repayment would make , you put in your usual payment and your interest rate and then how much you're overpaying by and it works out when you're mortgage free. Let me know if you're interested.

miggy

Thanks LT, though I don't know if my (extraordinarily rusty and underdeveloped) Excel skills would be up to it? If it isn't too complicated then yes please!

miggy

Seven hours at work so I shouldn't be weary but there you go. I mean, seven hours is less than a full day. I have been on my feet much if the time I suppose.

I've found some very good bargains over the last few days: a punnet of mushrooms for 20p and a pot of parsley for 10p to which we added the juices of a lemon (the expensive bit) and some onion and veg stock cubes which we already had - soup for two last night, lunch for me today and two portions in the freezer. With it we had very posh bread rolls from DD's work for 10p!

Today there was a bunch of flowers for 10p, ham for 25p, a granary loaf for 60p and organic leeks for 59p. We tried using a newspaper voucher for free eggs but of course they had all gone.

I ended up not buying the gift I was hunting down last night because when I got to the checkout, the P&P was nearly £13! Presumably it was packaged in platinum lined with silk because I couldn't see any other reason a little gadget should cost so much to post... anyway they've lost themselves a sale and I've now got time to look more thoroughly.

Bad_Weather

P&P is where they catch you!

The low price is to lure you in and the P&P is to make up the difference! Cheeky bums! x

miggy

They didn't get me... this time.

I just managed, by dint of mental maths, a money-off voucher and buying in bulk, to get a £26 shop for £19.98.

That's about it, really. Tired and have a busy evening so away I go again.

miggy

Nothing MS to report today. DD has her allowance and my piano lesson is paid for. I've also given DD a fiver for something she needs from school - I can't remember what. Art book or school trip or what?

DS1 is making tea tonight and I haven't offered to buy ingredients. Mind you his brother won't eat what's on offer and his Dad might just have a polite taste so I will be getting chicken nuggets or similar to fill the gaps.

Tonight I'm working so I need to sort out ingredients for a slow cooker meal that I can prepare tonight and leave in the fridge ready to start in the morning. DS's school is on strike so I expect he'll stay in bed and as I'll be asleep too the SC can bubble in peace.

I give myself 'light duties' when I'm due to work overnight so I haven't planned a visit to Mum or a shopping trip or anything resembling tiring housework, but there's huge heap of ironing which needs at least to be dented, and the washer's on for the second time today. I did manage to ruin a useful sort of tee shirt with bleach which isn't very MS but it will do for under winter layers and I'll try to remember it if I have a batch of dying to do.

For now, I'm playing on the computer and sorting through some magazines Mum gave me. There is just soooo much paper - argh! Magazines that aren't missing significant chunks can go to a waiting room somewhere, I am sloooowly inching through the things I promise to order for her (why does buying online seem to take so LONG?) and as for the assortment of loose bits of paper...

Truth is, I get bogged down and I'm not someone who can throw out without checking. Off into the fray once more!