Gallygirl's "A journey of 121,226.67 pounds begins with a single penny" diary

gallygirl

chumpy45 wrote: »

I am looking forward to your continuing adventures in the sun :j (Will miss the money shuffle dance!)

Hmmmmm.......... :think::think::think::think:I do have to transfer money over to Spain every month.........

:dance::dance::dance:do the money shuffle, yeah, yeah :dance::dance::dance:

gallygirl

Resting indoors as a bit of a dicky tummy , so 2011 highlights:

• Hello CathT,
• Tried and failed to read Moby D-ick - "Gave up on Moby !!!!. Unless the next chapter went along the lines of 'Chapter 35. Moby !!!! appeared. Boat sunk. They're all dead. The end' I would be abandoning it. It didn't, so I have"
• I was a size 12
• Much excitement as found an M&S gift card in the house......... turned out it had 1p on it
• Bought THIS red hat - still have it but not much need for it out here :rotfl:. Keeping it for Justin .
• Accidentally bought a house . From putting in offer to completion took 18 days :eek:. All bets on retiring at 55 were off
• Happy memories of Tesco Double The Difference promo - at one stage they were paying me £1 to buy a bottle of wine :rotfl:
• Proud of DD for being v good with money, still the same :T
• "Spent £40 today on a pre-paid sevice card which gets me: MOT, service (pay parts only), air con re-gas, wheel alignment & balancing, summer check, winter check plus other car type stuff. Well known local garage so pleased with that, MOT alone would cost that " That turned out to be an absolute steal, was gutted when they didn't renew it.
• Lots of trips to Spain again
• New favourite word was profligate. As in 'I am not'
• Discovered that little beetles had hitched a ride back from Gambia in a mask :eek:. Finally managed to kill the blighters and mask now in Spain
• Agreed with Mr GG we WOULD retire when I was 55 (obviously we subsequently decided that was too far away )
• Baffled Mr GG with feminine logic to justify new sofas :rotfl:
• Dug up front garden to put stones down. Skip was pink
• Got a Halifax Clarity CC. What a godsend that has been :T
• "I was in Liverpool today & saw the Queen Mary 2 - :eek: - that's a BIG ship :eek:. Something else I would never have seen if not for work, so I've been v lucky really to have seen & experienced some great things :T"
• "Saddo Alert: Have just invented a VFL (Value For Leave) Score. VFL = Annual Leave/Days Away, in other words how much leave does a day on holiday cost me, so the lower the score the better. I can use it to take into account bank holidays, weekends, 1/2 day flexi etc and get value for my annual leave" - I used that for every holiday until I retired :rotfl:
• Car tax was £30 - shockingly high, it's €14 here
• Threepennygate
• Thought I'd finally bought the perfect hand luggage case. I hadn't - have since bought the perfect hand luggage case

That was the year that was

misscousinitt

Thanks for the highlights GG.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

MCI

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

It will be down to those dodgy dreams you're having :rotfl:

Take it easy xxxxx

Popgirl

Get well soon GG x

Karmacat

misscousinitt wrote: »

Thanks for the highlights GG.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

From me too :kisses3:

Pearla*Merle

Ah, I had some great Tesco moments in 2011 too, happy times

Feel better soon xx

edinburgher

Do you drive a Dacia Sandero GG?

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

Do you drive a Dacia Sandero GG?

Yes, that would be the posh name for my little blue car . We have the Stepway which has higher ground clearance as we have a few friends who live up tracks etc. Great value for money (but if you're thinking of one don't fork out for the sat nav, I'm not very impressed with it).

edinburgher

I was just impressed that it's a 5 door with more than double the boot space of our wee Suzuki Swift, but for less than £7k new!