Cazmanian_minx's new MF diary

GDB2222

Glenmoriston Town House - looks very glam. :-)

Shame about the pony, but it's very helpful for your credit card. I am a townie, so I have no idea really about ponies. I imagine that they cost a few hundred Pounds to buy but much more to look after each year.

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Hello,

Great diary, thanks, I have enjoyed reading it. I would like a peek at your business website but suspect you are not allowed to advertise on here. Could you give me some cheeky code words so that I can google it please? I like the sound of your stuff!

Thanks, squirrel x

GDB2222

Click on CM's name, and then visit her home page.

cazmanian_minx

Thanks GDB Secret Saving Squirrel, if you look at my MSE About Me page:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.php?u=74221&tab=aboutme&simple=1

and click on Contact Info, there's a permitted link to my shop there

We had a great night out in Inverness, the gig was so loud that my trousers vibrated(!!) and the hotel was superb. Mr Minx was particularly enamoured of the piri piri prawns, so I think we'll be going back there in future!

GDB2222

Out of interest, did you make your own website or did someone do it for you?

cazmanian_minx

It's on the EKM PowerShop platform - £19.99+VAT a month - but I've added a few tweaks to one of their templates.

gallygirl

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

The gig was so loud that my trousers vibrated(!!)..........Mr Minx was particularly enamoured

Note to self....... you're not as good at speed reading as you think you are

cazmanian_minx

Happy Friday everyone!

No reductions on the financial £s, but I've been doing Phase 1 of the Harcombe Diet again and have lost 5lbs So that's 8lbs to go until my 'I'm OK with this' weight, 15lbs to go until my 'Looking pretty good' weight and 22lbs to go to my 'OMG, I haven't been this slim since university!!!!' weight I may not reach the latter, as it's probably unrealistic to want to weight the same aged 36 as I did at 19 due to the way the female body changes shape in mid-20s, but for now my size 10 clothes are fitting again and I'm spared the expense of buying new clothes for summer (see, there's an MSE point in there somewhere )

Mortgage payment goes out next week and should see us into the £122,xxxs

cazmanian_minx

Mortgage payment day and this month we've knocked £570.77 off the outstanding amount. The current projected finish date is still January 2028, which seems an awfully long way away, though I suppose with an interest-only mortgage I should be grateful that there's a projected finish date at all, let alone one that falls five months inside the mortgage end date!

Scores on the doors for the business are in and it wasn't quite such a disastrous year as I'd feared; down on last year, sure, but still up on the year before. Just waiting for a couple more supplier invoices and then I can get the books off to the accountant and find out what my next tax bill will be. Since the payments on account I've made for this year are based on last year's figures, HMRC probably owes me money for a change I don't know whether I get it back as a refund or whether I simply make very low payments on account next January and July though. The refund would be very useful right now!

Anyway, happy Easter all. It's starting to look very spring-like around here, with lots of these:

Newborn twin lambs by Caro Jones, on Flickr

and plenty of these:

Wild rabbit by Caro Jones, on Flickr

although Smokey wants to know which blithering idiot arranged his haircut just before the snow started

Smokey by Caro Jones, on Flickr

cazmanian_minx

Happy Friday everyone Debt scores on the doors have been updated and I'm now a third of the way through paying off the non-mortgage debt. It's sobering to think that the amount I've paid off so far would have bought me the very nice Highland pony I saw advertised the other day with enough left over for a new saddle. Live and learn.... It's going to get harder now that the interest free periods are over, but I've only got £1000 left to pay off the highest rate one and once that's gone I may be able to shuffle.