Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

MrsMoo2U

Sounds like a lovely way to start the day Pippi. I am only just up. Fed Coco and Moo and now sitting watching the birds on the feeder whilst sipping tea. Too dizzy to take Moo out just yet so will wait for OH to get up and we can all go out together. Meanwhile I am perusing the boards

Cinammon and Sultana Muffin anyone?

Pippilongstocking

jo1972 wrote: »

Hiya Pips :wave:

Hello there hope life with you is OK? (()) Nice to see you

Blizzard here - we've got snow again it would seem

Thank you chaps - I'm very grateful you're around - went to a xmas do thing last night for a recycling group I am helping with - nice to meet a few nice folk there and a fellow gardener. Might be able to help her out on a local project or at least give a bit of a hand when I can.
It was a plate thing where you take along something - so I manage a nice plate of smoked salmon with bread and butter (salmon reduced to 1.15 ) and did a quick turkey and HM sausage couscous, bottle fizzy water 17p and some lemon cordial - so all in all a cheap night


We were thinking of a walk today before OH goes off but the snow is sideways at the mo - we'll see...................

Pancakes made, HM sausage thingmy's made (turkey and sage today) I am enjoying making sausages and ds loves them. Very quick and no rubbish in them just 99% meat 1% sage

I'm fancying a boiled egg - and we've a few of those - girls still very happy - and I took a photo of the new ones - didn't get them all together - they keep moving around :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

cherisong wrote: »

Sounds like a lovely way to start the day Pippi. I am only just up. Fed Coco and Moo and now sitting watching the birds on the feeder whilst sipping tea. Too dizzy to take Moo out just yet so will wait for OH to get up and we can all go out together. Meanwhile I am perusing the boards

Cinammon and Sultana Muffin anyone?

I'll avoid the muffin - but I'll put the coffee on again - keep yourself safe - nice to hear OH's with you!

I'm off for a gallup too or maybe today I'll just ski.............

Pippilongstocking

EssexHebridean wrote: »

Relaxed start here too - although I can hear sounds of movement that suggest that OH is up so the peace will be shattered shortly! The cat and I have been enjoying sitting in the quiet - me browsing the boards on here with a cuppa and her looking out of the window dreaming, I suspect, of birds!

In hyour signature btw, shouldn't penguin chops now be the "Last stripey debt standing" or are you counting the student loan? Only I seem to remember that Martin's advice is to ignore those until you actually hit the statutory level to start paying them off, and just keep deferring?

Oh - now hello there you - um well I think maybe I can change the penguin chopped one can't I - the student loan is bothering me - I know I should ignore it - its nagging now though

Any window decisions?

Cheery_Daff

You're going to have to stop worrying about that student loan Pippi - if not for your sake, for *my* sake, because if you're worrying about yours, I have to worry about mine, and if I start counting that as debt, that means I'm not debt free any more, which is a frightening prospect! :eek: Mine is about £11000 I think, and I don't pay if off until I start earning over £15000, which I do in January, so it's being taken out at £100 a month of my wages, and I'm STILL not counting it. (it'll take 8 years to pay off at that rate - but I'm not overpaying it, think I'm better off overpaying the mortgage!)

Sounds like a lovely start to the day (apart from the sideways snow - eek!) Gorgeous sunshine here :T Mr Daffs just made hot chocolate Pancakes for breakfast Just sent off 4 chapters to supervisors All well with the world xx

EssexHebridean

I'm dying to know whether LT and MrLT have decided about the windows too! I still need to make a hoover decision, a new storage heater decision and probably several others. Also discovered that what we thought was a tiny water leak from the underside of the toilet cistern is actually somewhat less tiny than we thought.....and has been merrily running away under the floor for some time. :mad: The dehumidifier is now running in there in a bit to dry out the floor tiles a bit, and we have a temporary fix on the leaking pipe. (OK, not so much a fix, it's a bit of cloth tied round the pipe and leading the water down into a bucket! :rotfl: )

EssexHebridean

OK - student loan people, read THIS and then follow what Martin tells you to do TO THE LETTER - no overpaying "because you want to" - OK?! Clear? Comprende?!

Karmacat

Lovely start to the day there, Pippi. EH, I like your thinking, I really do :j that leak is a bit scary tho! At my old house, I realised my cistern was leaking, then found that the wood underneath the toilet was actually rotted AND full of woodworm - if I hadn't discovered it soon, somebody sitting on it would have plummeted through the floor to the level beneath :eek::eek::eek: it was an awful prospect fortunately avoided

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

You're going to have to stop worrying about that student loan Pippi - if not for your sake, for *my* sake, because if you're worrying about yours, I have to worry about mine, and if I start counting that as debt, that means I'm not debt free any more, which is a frightening prospect! :eek: Mine is about £11000 I think, and I don't pay if off until I start earning over £15000, which I do in January, so it's being taken out at £100 a month of my wages, and I'm STILL not counting it. (it'll take 8 years to pay off at that rate - but I'm not overpaying it, think I'm better off overpaying the mortgage!)

Sounds like a lovely start to the day (apart from the sideways snow - eek!) Gorgeous sunshine here :T Mr Daffs just made hot chocolate Pancakes for breakfast Just sent off 4 chapters to supervisors All well with the world xx

I don't want you to worry - therefore I wont either - well done to chapters - I sent in my MM on friday - trying to finish an experiment write up for Friday this week and another one for the week after.

EssexHebridean wrote: »

I'm dying to know whether LT and MrLT have decided about the windows too! I still need to make a hoover decision, a new storage heater decision and probably several others. Also discovered that what we thought was a tiny water leak from the underside of the toilet cistern is actually somewhat less tiny than we thought.....and has been merrily running away under the floor for some time. :mad: The dehumidifier is now running in there in a bit to dry out the floor tiles a bit, and we have a temporary fix on the leaking pipe. (OK, not so much a fix, it's a bit of cloth tied round the pipe and leading the water down into a bucket! :rotfl: )

You're a real islander!!! Eek to the leak but loving the temp fix - you'll do grand when you finally decant to those hebridies (if you ever do!)

EssexHebridean wrote: »

OK - student loan people, read THIS and then follow what Martin tells you to do TO THE LETTER - no overpaying "because you want to" - OK?! Clear? Comprende?!

UM OK - NO NO NO and NO martin says - who am I to argue such logic - not long til I'm 65 anyway!!:rotfl:

Ps I changed my blog title- OH suggested it and I think it suits it better! If you do take a peak anytime, tell me what you think of the name change.

EssexHebridean

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Ps I changed my blog title- OH suggested it and I think it suits it better! If you do take a peak anytime, tell me what you think of the name change.

Spotted it last night and love it!!!