The Ultimate Hard and Fast debt clearing mission

Birdie85

starnac wrote: »

Sara is the welsh for Sarah Birdie.

Maybe so, but she is a definite Sara and we're in North Yorkshire so there's no excuse, especially when she tells them how to pronounce it and they still get it wrong!

£270 for 7 nights is a great price Dinah, how many of you are going?

Dinah93

7 hopefully, but we will need two cabins as the bigger one takes 5 people and the smaller one takes 2+2 children. We can't book it atm though as grandad isn't well after taking a fall in November, so we just need to see how things go with him for a while.

starnac

Birdie85 wrote: »

Maybe so, but she is a definite Sara and we're in North Yorkshire so there's no excuse, especially when she tells them how to pronounce it and they still get it wrong!

I totally agree Birdie. I didn't mean that as an excuse. Sorry if my post read that way.

archersluck

I love Noah and Seren, both great names. Tait is um interesting! I like Tate...for a boy. Maybe you've misheard and its Cait really!
But it could be a lot worse, how do you even pronounce that Neveah monstrosity!? They might as just name them 'Neveah-it's-heaven-backwards' I bet!

Most importantly though you've got a new niece wendz, that's so lovely that her and poppy will be close in age. I love my female cousins even if we're geographically spread out.

Seriously have the appetite of a 14 year old boy at the moment, totally starved and clock watching.

Sorry about the job Ruby, fingers crossed something amazing comes along soon.

poddle911

archersluck wrote: »

I love Noah and Seren, both great names. Tait is um interesting! I like Tate...for a boy.

Same! Noah and Seren are both gorgeous names; unusual but not pretentious/made up for the sake of it. And I think Tait might grow on me! Aw, how nice to have a cousin for Poppy!

A log cabin in Scotland sounds lovely, Dinah - just holing up somewhere cosy with your family for a week so...

Birdie, you're getting some ace bargains - well done! I'm just looking at hen night stuff now, but hopefully I can delegate planning and bargain hunting to bridesmaids

Sorry about the job, Ruby - it makes it worse that you've been waiting to hear for so long. Something even better will come along soon! (This is what I tell myself and I'm sure it's true )

So glad your job is safe, Birdie - if I didn't say so the other day - fingers crossed for GIANT share payout

wendz86

I was saying yesterday how they can go clubbing together when they are 18 haha. Apparently they have actually spelt it Tate , which is the boy spelling... OH said do you think we should tell them lol. Her middle name is Bella which is lovely even if it did get named after her horse....

Birdie - could you take a board game each or something ? Old school but fun!

Archers - I am starving too and we don't have much food in, trying not to keep Popping to sainsburys as adds up over the week.

Birdie85

Ahhh Star I just get really annoyed when people mess up names, people can pronounce my name but never spell it correctly which drives me mad!

I think they pronounce Neveah Nay-Vah? That what my Mum's colleague says, but she's probably as confused as the rest of us! :rotfl: It'll be shortened to Neve within a year I reckon!

Good idea to take board games Wendz! I'll have to see what everyone has, we've only got Monopoly and I'm not allowed to play as I cheat if I'm banker and sulk if I lose (which is when I'm not banker! )

Got another wicked bargain today! There's a thread on the Grabbit board about a Boots glitch, I went at lunch time and got 3 x £1.99 vitamin shot things, 3 x 79p multivitamins and a £3.25 shaving foam for £2.84! Somehow the shot things are free with a vitamin purchase but also still in the 3-4-2 so kind of double discounts itself and you end up in credit, hence the shaving foam thrown in or they'd have been giving me money! OH was terribly impressed! :money:

Oh and my shares are currently worth £7673! :j OH has fewer than I do but still about £7000 worth

starnac

my mum is the same birdie. she goes mad when people spell her name with an "i" instead of a "y". When I got married I took DH's unusual surname and people always mispronounce it and spell it wrong even when I spell it for them! :mad:

great bargains. shame I didn't know about the boots thing when i was in town this morning

and wow on the shares :T

Birdie85

My name issue is centered around a pesky 'y' too! My SIL had a really unusual surname that she always had to say 3 times and spell for people so was quite happy to switch to my brother's 4-letter surname which is really nice and simple and difficult to get wrong, but she was telling me last week that she'd been on the phone to someone about updating her details and had to spell it, she couldn't believe it!

Oooh just got notification that I passed the exam I took last week! Hurrah! :j

Dinah93

I'd mention the name spelling, she'll go through her whole life being put into the boy groups because it will be assumed she's a boy! One of my dad's friends was a traffic warden and called his new daughter Amber, my dad bit his tongue (for once) and as soon as this bloke returned to work he got such a ribbing and he hadn't realised - he actually ended up changing jobs!

That is a LOT of money in shares Birdie, do you have plans for them?

Very excited as NIM has said he'll clear the garden for me so I can sit out there this summer. This was all prompted by some bargainous fruit trees on groupon (£29.95 for 5 different dwarf fruit trees and two bushes all suitable for pot growing, and I had a £12 groupon voucher they sent me to lure me back which expired in 4 days, plus 5% Quidco cashback). I've been desperate to get a lovely garden rather than a wilderness for nearly a year now, so I'm very excited he's said he'll put some time into clearing it.

Been looking for classes I can attend to try to break up the sitting at home. I don't want to be out every day as I'll be exhausted, but a little social contact wouldn't go amiss. I'm now waiting for more people to sign up for a pilates class, have enquired about an NCT class, and NIM has suggested we do some kind of evening class together - but I'm having real trouble finding one.