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

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  • greenval
    greenval Posts: 596 Forumite
    Hi Pippi
    So pleased about the '6o%' thing:T
    Good to hear the girls are still laying. My physio's hens have slowed up a lot but they are 'rescue ' battery hens so I guess anything is a bonus.
    Just seen a weather warning for Orkney about snow so hope you can get home soon and safely tucked up .
  • La_escocesa
    La_escocesa Posts: 3,119 Forumite
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    I have a huge cake for all of you and lashings of gingerbeer

    first credit got a letter yesterday from the financial ombindsman - today at 8.30 they called me and told me they were going to uphold their 60% offer. (until the end of December)

    Wooohooooo doesn't even come close :)

    thank u so much for giving me advise and urging me to take it further!!!

    Xxxx
    :T:T:T:T:T:T:T

    Yippeee!! Good for you!
  • Ellidee
    Ellidee Posts: 6,216 Forumite
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    :jWhoop Pippi ! :D

    That's my second 'whoop' today - Hypno has exchanged contracts on her new house! :D
    Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Hurray! You beat the banks! And its so nice to see photies of the chooks :) mind you, not so nice to hear of the gales carrying on inside the house :( is the wind a bit better today?

    Get that payment off sharpish! 60% discount is *really* too good to miss :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • hello thank you all - you knnow YOU lot did it not me - I was licking my wounds and feeling like an idiot!!

    Anyway I'm home :) KC nope - the winds are NOT better - got to work ok - half way through today they came and told me to go home.

    Never driven in anything like it before - like a humungous sand storm - but with black ice under snow which has (in places) drifted over the road - you go between not wanting to slide, not being able to see a thing into up and over snow drifts and kind of hope for the best - bit like trying to drive on a ski slope in a sand storm in the middle of a gale - very very wierd.

    Not keen to go out in it again tbh. barely got down the track here cos of the snow - kinda just went for it and gently rolled over the worst of the drifting whilst crossing fingers and repeating the words in a mantra all the way home

    oh duck, oh duck, oh duck, ooooohhhhhhh duck, over and over again

    Home now though - it appears out door is not properly shutting at the bottom here - we've drifted snow inside the door up the side of the wall where the wind has hit the door full on - lol

    no wonder the massive curtain over the door is moving about!!

    :)

    I'm off to be brave and phone the evil first credit folk and pay that bill off - wonder what the FO said to them

    'First credit, you're not going out to play, you're a very very naughty company'

    :)
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • Kittikins
    Kittikins Posts: 5,335 Forumite
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    WoWoWoWoWoWoW!!! Well done Pippi and raspberries to the stupid company who thought they could get away with being barstewards ;)

    So, only Penguin Chops to go then? You'll nail that one.

    Boo hiss to ferries being cancelled, my work have just put out a severe weather warning, and most of us are very darrrrn sarf where at the mo it's just grey and a bit rainy.....
  • How frustrating, Pip! Defos worth a complaint letter. Or you could even call the FO helpline to see if they have a standard response to these sort of things - I've seen similar complaints about pensions and the pensions ombudsman does... http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/contact/index.html#1

    Candles and camomile tea is definitely the way forward for tonight. Oh, and about the tidying up in a crisis - you are very welcome here any time you are cross :D

    I owe you a rather big bunch of flowers

    Flowers_035.jpg
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Oh how lovely! Are we ever going to see flowers again? It feels like *ages*!

    Pippi - snow inside the door!!!!! This is not good. This is so not good it defies description. Call the landlord too, please?
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    edited 16 December 2010 at 5:52PM
    I have a picture - and Yup I'll call

    the weather here not very nice today!! and its trying to come through the door - I've a small snow drift inside the back door and its been closed and locked all day!!!!

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    Paid the card off woo hoo!!!!

    And cancelled their dd - my total monthly dd's now are £147.28
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • MrsMoo2U
    MrsMoo2U Posts: 4,005 Forumite
    Gosh Pippi, that sounds very scary and I can completely empathise because 'twas black ice under snowdrift that was my downfall. You stay put until it is safe again.
    Good luck with that phonecall. I always get extra pleasure by being super nice (and sarcastic) whilst smiling and being aloof. Well it makes me feel good and hopefully makes them feel like cr*p.
    Gorgeous flowers and a really nice cheerful way to open a post.
    Some days there aren't any trumpets, just lots of dragons. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow -- Mary Anne Radmacher
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