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  • Hello all! Just having a light surf during my lunch hour (which is deemed appropriate!) and thought I would pop by and say hello!

    Just as most of the poorlies pop in and say they are feeling better, I can feel myself coming down with something horrid...! Going to fight it though, because I have too much work to do and 8 working days until I am on leave... and I am NOT going to be sick when I am on holiday!!

    Have also been looking very longingly at some Doc Marten shoes and boots... feel an unnatural longing to have a pair of those boots again... and they actually do some lovely "normal" looking shoes too! :) Might be saving up for some of them!! :D

    Right... back to the coal face. Hope I can manage the rest of today at work. Have already taken 2 paracetamol to get rid of the headache and backache I have at the moment; they seem to have worked getting rid of the pain. Now, if only I could get some energy from somewhere, I'd be sorted! :D

    Laters folks!! :D
    "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort"
    Herm Albright 1876-1944
  • greenbee
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    Rags and bare feet sound about right troglodyte!

    Onion soup and braised cabbage for lunch was very nice, and will probably be a bit of a shock to my system, but jelly and ice cream is still really the only thing that works for the throat and coughing.

    Two work calls to listen to this afternoon. I really, really need to get some writing done. Travel is looking silly... I have had to ask someone else to check the flights as I can't believe it costs nearly £1.5k to go to Finland, on to Sweden and back again at what are probably normal commuting times (or maybe that's why it is costing so much).
  • maryb
    maryb Posts: 4,714 Forumite
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    Are you sure you ticked the 'multi destination trip' box on the website? Otherwise it works it out as single trips rather than a return, which is a lot more expensive. MY DH had to go on a business trip and we looked at using his airmiles for me to fly out and join him, which would have meant flying out to one country and back from another and doing it so that they treated it as one 'return' trip made an unbelievable difference
    It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!
  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    edited 28 February 2012 at 3:32PM
    Wooohoooo - another Mind Map bites the dust - would have been sooner but I managed to splatter coffee over the first version.

    Just time for a cuppa and then the school run beckons

    MG

    ETA More onions to use up -!!!!aladiere for dinner I think Mmmmmmmm

    ETA :rotfl::rotfl: Ooh the filter caught me :rotfl::rotfl: I am having french onion tart for dinner - there I bet it wont filter out tart :D
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  • Memory_Girl
    Memory_Girl Posts: 4,957 Forumite
    troglodyte wrote: »
    Good for you!
    I'm currently struggling with the proposed 'Charles Dickens day' that DD's school have planned for Thurs. I'm damned if I'm going to spend £15 or so buying a 'Victorian' costume just to satisfy the whim of a teacher, so have found an old (and I mean really old - could perhaps be Victorian itself as it came from my great-aunt) lace-trimmed pillow-case which I am going to try and transform into a smock/tabard type thing this evening (planning to just cut up the sides then add ribbons to tie it together at the sides when on). After all the whole issue with Victorian children was that most were too poor to afford decent clothes at all, never mind dressing-up stuff. Maybe I should send DD to school barefoot? :rotfl::rotfl:


    Send her in a sheet - she can be the Ghost of Christmas Future :D

    MG
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    Grown Up Emergency Fund £6000 / £6000 :j
    Pension Provision £6688/£2376
  • greenbee
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    maryb wrote: »
    Are you sure you ticked the 'multi destination trip' box on the website? Otherwise it works it out as single trips rather than a return, which is a lot more expensive. MY DH had to go on a business trip and we looked at using his airmiles for me to fly out and join him, which would have meant flying out to one country and back from another and doing it so that they treated it as one 'return' trip made an unbelievable difference
    Yep - multi segment trip (three flights for me, four for OH) and so far looking wildly expensive. Different airline for each flight... but once we have the schedule sorted out the travel agents can then go and sort out the cost. Not that they probably care much. I suspect that they get paid commission based on how much we spend :cool:
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    It sounds crazy Greenbee but try for red-eye flights as these can sometimes be cheaper (I know it means flying at an unsavoury hour of the day or night).

    I second the sheet for Charles Dickens Day. A sheet is a better idea than cutting up a Victorian lace pillowcase.

    I have my new specs and I am not impressed - will see how I get on with them but so far I can see them going back! Managed to chomp some frogs today too - the application form was finished off and hand delivered, some stewing steak has been bunged in the slow cooker with some onions and (afraid to say tinned) carrots, herbs, pepper, stockcube and pearl barley ready for dinner later.

    Just had a call from the local college to invite me to attend the Employment course starting on Monday morning for 3 days a week for 4 weeks - this is courtesy of the jobcentre so I am hoping it will boost my confidence and help me get a job.
  • Firewalker
    Firewalker Posts: 2,682 Forumite
    Greenbee, going to Finland is expensive; very expensive. I fly cheaply to Lund but the only reason is that I fly to Copenhagen on Easy Jet and get the train. Flying to Stockholm is expensive as well.

    Good luck anyway and hope you feel better and up to this whole trip thing.

    Firewalker
  • greenbee
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    Horace wrote: »
    It sounds crazy Greenbee but try for red-eye flights as these can sometimes be cheaper (I know it means flying at an unsavoury hour of the day or night).
    Firewalker wrote: »
    Greenbee, going to Finland is expensive; very expensive. I fly cheaply to Lund but the only reason is that I fly to Copenhagen on Easy Jet and get the train. Flying to Stockholm is expensive as well.

    Good luck anyway and hope you feel better and up to this whole trip thing.

    Firewalker

    Work are paying. I'm flying on work time (well, put it this way, all my colleagues agree that we need to arrive in time to eat, unpack, and get some sleep before the next day... after all, our clients pay to see us, they should expect us to be coherent!).

    And staying in nice rooms in decent hotels (they already make a saving because OH and I share!).

    Its the multi-city trips that cost so much. Return fares are pretty reasonable, but when you're flying from one city to another, to another (looking foward to Lisbon/Frankfurt/Copenhagen/Oslo in May :cool:) not only is it exhausting, but also expensive.

    OK... flights selected, so I'll wait for the details. Hotel in Finland is booked. Just need to get the hotels in Sweden sorted :)

    And at some point, get the presentations done for the trip too... :o
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    Seeing your exhaustive trip reminds me on one of the professors I used to work for - he managed to book himself into 3 conferences across America, one in New Zealand, a meeting in Frankfurt and another in Milan all in the space of 3 weeks so he was whizzing about all over the place but I still managed to book some relaxation time into that schedule - admittedly he did do some red eye flights but he could sleep standing up so he would sleep for the whole flight.

    I haven't flown anywhere for ages - my passort expires in April:(
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