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  • Karmacat I'm still intrigued with the trading thingy! Is it stocks & shares?
    I haven't a clue with things like that!

    Horrible rainy day here :(
    hope you are having a relaxing Saturday X
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  • EssexHebridean
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    Grey and murky here Troy, but not actually raining *yet* I don't think!

    Waves at KC - another one here fascinated by your trading thing! :D
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  • Karmacat
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    Very windy day here! Troy, EH, its the FTSE100 - the UK shares index - and two sets of rates of exchange - between the pound and the US dollar, and between the euro and the US dollar. I don't want to be seen as encouraging people to spreadbet, because you really can lose an awful lot of money *very* quickly, but I need to talk about what I'm practising - I've been dipping my toes in (and making profits - very, very small profits, cos I get scared) for about 3 years now :o

    I've been out a looooong walk, and have mostly decluttered some broken glass - need to do the rest of it tomorrow - I'm pleased with that, it was quite dangerous to have it around. And I've even done some work on the dratted curtain :D

    Believe me, if I succeed and start making the kind of money thats theoretically available to me, you'll know :)
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  • rtandon27
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    :wave:Hi KC!

    You are sounding so energetic these days & very positive, so glad the lurgy is well on it's way out!

    Love that you call it decluttering - lol - much more 'je ne sais quoi' than 'chores' - lol.

    OH is so exhausted by the 'chores' we did this morning that he's having a snooze - is it a man thing? - I can't even fathom having a snooze knowing how much more there is left to to! - lol - perhaps if we introduce him to the word decluttering he might be energized instead?

    Well accomplishment of the day is that we finally 'decluttered' a year's worth of batteries and a brita filter to the appropriate recycle bins in town that somehow did not want to leave the store cupboard.:D (Small things and all!)

    Now off to sort laundry, tidy kitchen, frame and hang a poster and attend to banking/bills.:rotfl:

    XO
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  • Lula-Hula
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    Mmmmm to trading, it's so exciting, I used to follow stuff years ago but now out of the habit. I dont think spreadbetting is for me but I will need to learn a bit more about different sources of income for when I quit home-job :)

    Well done on getting out for long walk, it's been so windy here today I find it both energising & exhausting if that makes sense. Cat loves it when it's windy, dashes in & out of the cat flap & up & down the stairs for hours, easily pleased :D

    xx
  • taxi73
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    good luck with the trading all sounds very scary to me.
  • morning taxi :)
    how are you feeling, is the tiredness getting much less?

    I didn't sleep too well hence on here at a mad time!
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  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    been up since 2am as fell asleep about 9pm last night.
  • I've been doing that too, can't keep my eyes open at night then awake at 2am staring at the ceiling ;)
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  • rtandon27
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    Morning all! - so sorry to hear about all the sleep distress.

    :jHappy Sunday:j hope the day turns out well for all.

    xox
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