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Dunno, but none of you lot were here when I arrived!0
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mystic_trev wrote: »Dunno, but none of you lot were here when I arrived!
That's true trev. I remember you from way back when. You won't remember me though... I was only a lurker at first.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Jennifer_Jane wrote: »PS and I also remember Graham Devon and Pinkfluff meeting up.
Ooooh, I don't remember that. The only meeting I remember being planned was the aborted one, that somehow involved Bruno and umbrellas.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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I think I found this by mistake, but have found this forum generally interesting although there is a lot of hot air from some people here (not pointing the finger at any one person here!)...Feb 2012 - onwards MF achieved
September 2016 - Back into clearing a mortgage - Was due to be paid off in 32 years in March 2047 -
April 2018 down to 28.00 months vs 30.04 months at normal payment.
Predicted mortgage clearing 03/2047 - now looking at 02/2045
Aims: 1) To pay off mortgage within 20 years - 20370 -
Once you get used to all the willy waving from the bears it's most enjoyable.0
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vivatifosi wrote: »Ooooh, I don't remember that. The only meeting I remember being planned was the aborted one, that somehow involved Bruno and umbrellas.
I'm sure he'll remind us all about it in due course. Yes, I'm positive he will.....0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »That's true trev. I remember you from way back when. You won't remember me though... I was only a lurker at first.
I used to enjoy it then, plenty of discussion and very little arguing! Strange how things change, I used to post a lot, now I'm a lurker!0 -
I think Cleaver came a bit later but two star posters no longer with us (in theory) were DD (a great believer in reincarnation
) and mewbie, plus oh Carol.
OK if you insist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZq4cLd348w&feature=related
Any excuse!
Edit: To keep this on-topic, three years before this faked live performance, my Dad bought a 5 bed Queen Anne town house for exactly £1k.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I remember before cleaver was here. It was all about mewbie in those days.
But the rest were alreasy a posse before I came. In fact, I remember now, I arrived when we were thinking of buying a place in zone 6.....when I was sure I'd be very little more than a bed bound person unable to write anything coherant ever. That place ...admitedly in zone six, was a one bed place on a tiny plot of land...and had a demolition order. It cost more than we paid for this place.
Over the time I've been here what we looked to buy and what we bought changed dramatically and for the type of property we plumped for I think we got a good deal and a very much more informed deal.
however, what we could borrow also halved. We've ended up with smaller mortgage, and a different sort of property.
I think I was here when we were a sub forun, not a forum of our own. Support from some of the regulars has helped me improve my health and change my outlook on life, has made our choices more informed and more longterm...I think.
My plans changed a lot too. I joined MSE in May 2008, wondering if I'd ever be able to afford to buy, so the HP crash thread appealed. By the autumn of that year I was seriously watching the housing market in my preferrred school catchment, and my parents were saying they'd help me to buy after the divorce, although I didn't know how much help they were envisaging. Then late-nearly-ex died in November 2009 and I suddenly had lots of extra money from the life insurance and became a proceedable buyer with a bigger budget than I'd expected.
I eventually bought 14 months later, having been hugely grateful for the support of my friends on here who followed every step of my progress from considering house 1 (owners decided not to sell) to house 2 (sellers put price up by £85k) to house 3 (terrible survey) to house 4 (couldn't get planning permission for extension) and back to house 2 (owners dropped price and replaced dodgy flat roof) which I bought.
Without this forum I would have been so clueless about the house buying process. Thanks all who helped me! :beer:lostinrates wrote: »This sounds like a good bye speech....Hope it isn't
Don't even think about abandoning us, lir. We want you to stay.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
OK if you insist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZq4cLd348w&feature=related
Any excuse!
Edit: To keep this on-topic, three years before this faked live performance, my Dad bought a 5 bed Queen Anne town house for exactly £1k.
Wrong one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF70DZZQM50'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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