Mortgage Free - so good they'll do it twice! Wynnvegas aiming for the big house

mummyofonechild

Too much detail Froggy :eek:

wynnvegas

Froggy-G wrote: »

Billy

Do you mean I should not pack my Mankini for next week then?

Froggy :cool:

Knauen tag Froggy,

Over in the west coast, mankinis are still quite in so you'll do fine. Just remember to accessorise it with a colour co-ordinated golf brolly and you'll fit right in...

Cheers,

Billy

Ayeshalush

wynnvegas wrote: »

Knauen tag Froggy,

Over in the west coast, mankinis are still quite in so you'll do fine. Just remember to accessorise it with a colour co-ordinated golf brolly and you'll fit right in...

Cheers,

Billy

...and just what are you trying to say about us on the west coast?!!!!:cool:

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Froggy-G

Ayeshalush wrote: »

...and just what are you trying to say about us on the west coast?!!!!:cool:

:D

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I might pop over & see you!! :rotfl:

norabatty_2

wynnvegas wrote: »

Morning Folks,

Off to the framers to investigate jigsaw framing and the building of bespoke presentation cases for my wall of death - although I'll need to find a nicer term for it!

:rotfl: I read that comment 5 minutes ago and I'm still chuckling away to myself. Yeah, you might need to recoin that phrase, then you really would freak out the overnight guests!!

wynnvegas

Hi Ayeshalush,

I'd love to say nothing derogatory but there's a fierce rivalry to keep up between east and west! Now that I'm in the middle of both, I give the snobby east as much abuse as the neddy west. Not that I'm generalising or anything...

Cheers,

Billy

wynnvegas

Hi Nora,

Welcome to my regular ramblings! We've renamed them remembrance units which should hopefully be more palatable. Need to pick up a couple of pictures of my Granny and Papa to go with their pieces but we'll get that process moving shortly and wrapped up shortly after we get back from Vegas.

Cheers,

Billy

wynnvegas

Morning Folks,

A particularly dull weekend was spent with Moyra marking for the majority (80/172 papers as of last night) and me fighting the ever present rain to get the garden done (still loads to do on that front - I need to ivestigate whether I can just saw off the top of my trees out the front or whether it really does need a professional to do it at £400-500 for half an hour of work) and the cars washed.

Made a bit of a dent with the ever-depressing debt pile. Our credit card is down to just over £1,000 and the acquired debt is down to £5,500. We'll only be able to stick the minimum amount in next month as the June salaries will provide the Vegas spending money. We're going to stick to our original spending budget of £3,000 and we'll have a bigger splash at it next year. October is still manageable at a push for debt freedom but we're not going to go too hard at it as we don't start picking up interest on these until January so paying everything off in November will have to do if it comes to it.

Seeing the architect on Thursday to go over our plans and to get a much firmer handle on costs. Moving on from our initial plans, it would appear that if we were smarter about space, we could build the pub over the pool / gym, better utilise the space on the left hand side of the house, get a smaller piece of land and save ourselves somewhere in the region of £50,000 on the build cost. As we're only after the three bedrooms anyway, it makes sense to do it that way so a redesign (and 3D model which is still going to be great fun) is in the offing!

Cheers,

Billy

wynnvegas

Morning All,

A properly productive day yesterday and hopefully another one to come today.

Whilst at work, I managed to kick off what will hopefully be the final redundancy process for quite some time, arrange three pretty important meetings today (one, an all-in strategy session and two fairly straight to the point discussions with people who don't seem to fancy doing their jobs properly). If I can only get a couple of the managers fired up to get objectives set for their teams, we'll be properly on the right road. Had to sit with a couple of lawyers which, bizarrely, both proved fruitful experiences. The first saved me nearly £9k on a case we might have had to deal with and the second fired me from my upcoming tribunal representation (my first as the rep for the claimant) which is fair enough as he has a really good reputation with the Edinburgh tribunal which will only add weight (and eventually money) to the claim. I'll play the second chair now (see also all the prep work, a seat in the gallery and none of the eventual glory!).

After work, managed to hit Farmfoods, Aldi, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons and Asda in my search for Moyra's pea pods. This, getting as it is into Wmbledon season, her major sporting highlight of the year, is her time for peas, coke, tennis and not an awful lot else. Her marking schedule is on course (119/172) to finish right on time for SW19 to kick off. I got back, made dinner (not to the standard of Froggy G and his culinary masterclasses - only chicken carbonara) and, owing to a couple of days without torrential rain, decided it was time to attack the garden. We went tonplay badminton after dinner and, between 8:15 and 10:30, I managed to do all the weeding round the back, make an effort (slightly botched) at fixing the wobble slab at the front of the house that has been driving me mental for a few weeks, do the grass, wash the cars, have a bit of a lop at the bushes at the side of the neighbour's house and fit the two new ill-fitting tap handles that came from the bathroom place. I need to visit them today to get the slightly bigger tap handles fixed as that will annoy me now until they're right again. The trouble is, with all that effort exerted, I can hardly move today!

Anyhow, I'm off to the office armed with muffins, doughnuts, almond slices and coconut and cherry cake for today's big monthly meeting. If I haven't bottomed out the strategy for the year in totality, frightened the life out of a couple of people, completely prepped the new lawyer for next month and set everyone a decent list of objectives for the month ahead, I'll have failed miserably. If I can get to the pool at some point today, that would complete the list!

Hope everyone is grand and dandy. Have a great day...

Cheers,

Billy

Froggy-G

Well done on the productive day yesterday, nice to feel you have achieved loads..;)

The offer of muffins, doughnuts, almond slices and coconut and cherry cake is very appealing.. If my boss was to bring that at our meetings, I would agree with anything he says ...

Well done to Moyra on the marking! Impressive work!

Have fun today!

Froggy :cool: