Ladies & Gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts ...

benbenandme

Aww Louise, I hope ds still wants me to read it to him when he's that age too

Pooky

One of the best parts of Christmas is the snuggling in our bed on Christmas eve to read the night before christmas book.....DD1 wrote her own version when she was about 6 and we have to read that one too.

My DD's are 15 and 12 now and the magic is still going....just in different ways.....actually I think they're humouring me more than anything but hey, I'm happy with that We have an unspoken rule that we all believe in Father Christmas....no matter what age we are.....if you don't believe, you don't recieve!

benbenandme

Just had an email from quidco to say I've got a payment of £31 :j That'll top up the holiday fund nicely

benbenandme

Quick update ...

£50 / £100 - holiday fund
[STRIKE] £3 - mortgage pot[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE] £65 Take That[/STRIKE]
The Plumber (£20 in the pot)

Not looking quite so bad now, just need to stay on track with the budgeting and things aren't doing so badly

Now come on Aidan, what the hell are you doing in the bottom two?? :cool:

taka

benbenandme wrote: »

Ooh, just seen on the xmas board that the Coke lorry is touring, may add that to the advent list, the nearest one to us is over Tigz's way on 15th Dec in the evening ... Holidays are coming ....

I spotted it in our city centre today... I got a couple of free mini cans of diet coke and listened to the singers for a few minutes. They were all huddled together as it was freezing! There wasn't much to see (but then again I passed it late in the day)

benbenandme

Thank you Taka, would you say its not worth bothering with then? Its about a 40 minute drive from here so may not bother then if its not up to much?

taka

There may have been more going on earlier in the day but at ~5-30pm there was just a big red "holidays are coming" type lorry with lights, ~5 folks giving out free 150ml cans and 3 very cold looking singers singing! I imagine Santa must have been around or something earlier but there was not much to see when I passed it. I just wandered past on my way home to see if they were giving out free coke!

Sea78

benbenandme wrote: »

Quick update ...



Not looking quite so bad now, just need to stay on track with the budgeting and things aren't doing so badly

Now come on Aidan, what the hell are you doing in the bottom two?? :cool:

grr- didn't let me quote your figures box

But well done!!! Your budgeting is going well - wil take some of that inspiration thank you

xx

benbenandme

Thankyou Taka, will leave it on the list for now as its a nice easy advent activity and a bit different to the others

Sea, glad to be an inspiration, I don't feel it!

So, I got up extra early this morning and did shred, was a real effort to drag myself out of bed but it was much easire than yesterday and I fell fab now so am pleased I did it

Packed lunches are ready (all healthy stuff today :T), the flat is still tidy, bring on the new week

hypno06

Hurrah for getting back in control of those things that you CAN control.

Here's to a very productive week xx