GTD's DFW Diary - Getting Closer to 40...

Karmacat

Veerrryyy interesting .... I know that when friends of mine went to Warsaw 30 years ago or so, it was terribly exotic - hand-knotted carpets, the whole bit. St Wenceslas! And, on a much more sombre note, the Warsaw ghetto....

I've met a lot of Poles in the course of my work over the years, and I have a theory that, apart from its geographical position at a crossroads, whereas we're at the edge, Poland is very like England in character: hardworking, a bit mad, very independent, very proud, old school conservatism and creativity all mushed up together. It'll be fascinating!

GettingThingsDone

I'll let you know if and when it happens (March?)

So far I've been rubbish at my November £10/day challenge - but I'm not giving up!

pania

you'd better not bloomin leave us young man! we shall hunt you down witches coven stylee turn you into a toad and pin you to your diary roit!!!!!

GettingThingsDone

:eek::eek::eek:

No, I ain't going anywhere...

hypno06

pania wrote: »

you'd better not bloomin leave us young man! we shall hunt you down witches coven stylee turn you into a toad and pin you to your diary roit!!!!!

how

GettingThingsDone

Well, it has been a bit of a tight month and I've not posted very much (though I have been lurking )

Money Positives:
- Looks like I'll have some money left at the end of the month
- £10 apology from Barclaycard for accidentally charging me 1p interest
- Looks like £25 coming in from quidco; Although I'm not a gambler, this was an Extrabet deal which I could still win Not banking on it though.
- Managed to get my bank account details validated so that I can move £26 out of a savings account
- Found that a couple of my PS1 games are worth ~£20 each, so they can go on ebay

Money Negatives:
- Accidently picked up an account 'review' charge of £25 on A+L account; I need to get this refunded.
- Forgot to pay November council tax - doh!
- November £10/day challenge just didn't happen for me. I just had an imagination failure

My mum got made redundant this week, but is taking it well.

We've managed to get all of the nursery things ready I think thanks to lots of generous relatives - lots of thanks to everyone... Just waiting now...

gtd

hypno06

sorry about your Mum's job, but the rest of the post seems pretty good!

Getting excited about the baby?

GettingThingsDone

I'm still over-excited...

I think my mum'll be OK - she has the 'luck of the Irish' as she managed to sell her house at the peak and also bought a little rural house in Italy way back when they were still cheap. Debt free and mortgage free - but she did get her pension stolen a few years back, so that's why she wanted to keep earning.

Sounds like things are going well in the hypno household!

gtd

Karmacat

Hey gtd

A rural house in Italy ... I like the sound of that. And pitter pattering going on soon. But - how on earth did you forget to pay your council tax? You mean you don't have it set up on a DD? Aargh!

GettingThingsDone

Hey KC! Sounds like you're getting stuck into your spread-betting - good luck!

I hate DD's - usually end in bank charges somewhere along the line for me. Strangely haven't been chased by the council yet - and I need to pay December's too - tight month, tight month... will get better though

The Italy place is being 're-modelled' at the moment but I have no idea what it looks like as my mum's not very good at taking pictures. We hope to get over there sometime next year.