Its days are numbered ...

Radish72

How sweet that your OH left you the strawberries, pretty sure my BF would have eaten them

And :j for the tax rebate, getting nearer to those teenage years

gallygirl

Radish72 wrote: »

How sweet that your OH left you the strawberries, pretty sure my BF would have eaten them

:rotfl:Mine too :rotfl:. He always takes a cereal bar to golf on Sats and last weekend I only had my last ever fave flavour bar from SW. I gave ut to him and told him how honoured he was - AND HE TOOK IT AND ATE IT :eek::mad::o:rotfl:

DawnW

gallygirl wrote: »

:rotfl:Mine too :rotfl:. He always takes a cereal bar to golf on Sats and last weekend I only had my last ever fave flavour bar from SW. I gave ut to him and told him how honoured he was - AND HE TOOK IT AND ATE IT :eek::mad::o:rotfl:

Hmmm we have been married a VERY long time (big anniversary coming up) and this has involved a lot of training ....

It might also be linked to the fact that he found it absolutely necessary to buy an expensive new tool :rotfl:

DawnW

Marinated salmon for supper, with new potatoes and green beans from the freezer (not many left from last year now, which is just as well, as this year's ones are coming along )

Done spreadsheets, which largely consists of adding up new savings totals. Suffice to say that my mortgage balance is only a little more than the savings total; I have been putting more effort into the mortgage side of the equation recently, savings haven't grown much .

Will need to ring C&G for a new balance. Annoyingly, I can't look at my account lonline as it is an 'old' one (all of four and a half years) and / or I don't have a current account with LTSB. Confused? Yes, me too!

Did a survey for Pinecone, so £4 will be falling into my paypal account soon

On the expenses side, I will need to book my car in to have its cam belt changed :eek::eek: as it is approaching the advisory milage for this. Better than the engine falling to pieces or whatever it is that happens if it goes wrong I suppose :eek:

OH has gone to bed already, as he is going to his daft London job tomorrow, which is daft because it entails getting up at 1 am :eek:

I shall be joining him soon, as my daft London job involves getting up at 5am, which is nearly as bad :eek:

Ayeshalush

DawnW wrote: »

Will need to ring C&G for a new balance. Annoyingly, I can't look at my account lonline as it is an 'old' one (all of four and a half years) and / or I don't have a current account with LTSB. Confused? Yes, me too!



OH has gone to bed already, as he is going to his daft London job tomorrow, which is daft because it entails getting up at 1 am :eek:

I shall be joining him soon, as my daft London job involves getting up at 5am, which is nearly as bad :eek:

Your dinner sounds lovely. I haven't had salmon for ages and you've just given me a notion for it:D. Have added salmon to next weeks shopping list.

My situation is similar to yours. My mortgage is with The Woolwich, owned by Barclays, and I can't check my balance online either, although Barclays mortgage holders can? Seems very unfair to me.

5am:eek::eek:...and I thought my 6.30am was bad. I am not a morning person lol. Hope your snuggled up in bed now getting your beauty sleep.:D

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DawnW

Ugh it is raining and windy AGAIN :mad:

Had a bizarre situation today - a delegate at a meeting one of my junior colleagues had organised wanted to chat after the meeting. I had attended to observe, as it involved a sector with whom we need to further develop our engagement. We had to vacate the meeting room, so went to a cafe - in a not terribly salubrious area.

All ok, till it came to paying. Do they take cards? No they don't. Neither colleague not I could scrape up £3.50 in cash to pay for tea (as neither of us have had time for mundane things like making sure we have some money when we go out), delegate left, so colleague went in search of a cashpoint, while I apologised and waited .... and waited :eek: - it took ages, there weren't any cashpoints for miles. She ended up going to a local Tescos and having to buy something to get cashback. This was in a busy bit of London mind, not the back of beyond. So there is me, in this ethnic cafe in a slightly dodgy area, waiting for colleague to come back before I could pay the bill, and wondering if I would be arrested :cool:, and what the daily mail might say about it if I was :eek:

We will have a laugh about it in the morning, in the context of the latest scandal about civil servants using government credit cards in golf clubs or whatever it was :rotfl:I suspect that our experiences of trying to find a cashpoint to pay (with my own money I hasten to add I paid my junior colleague back!) for tea in a low end cafe for a work meeting are rather more typical :rotfl:

Anyway, thank goodness it is Friday tomorrow

DawnW

It is Friday at last :j:j:j:j:j:j:j
Today:

Lots of phone calls to make / things to sort out:
Must phone friend and arrange to catch up
Phone C&G for a mortgage balance
HMRC have sent OH's tax rebate, so must investigate transferring money from new FD account to mortgage - haven't done so yet.
Investigate why OH's O2 direct debit doesn't seem to have transferred.

Pasta bake (thanks to Tilly for the idea) to make for supper

Oh, and do some work - going in later this morning to make up for 6.15 start yesterday, but must get on :eek:

DawnW

Phoned C&G for a balance and it is now below 20k :T
Signature updated

Paid another £300 off the balance with some of OH's tax rebate money, but that won't get 'counted' till next month.

For some strange reason I can't log into my S*tander account :mad:They seem to have changed the log in screens and are now asking for information I have never been given. I thought it was a fake site initially, but looking carefully, they seem either to have changed it, or (quite) possibly to have messed something up their end. I am hoping my salary goes into my new FD account ok at the end of the month and I can just close it, as you never know what they are going to do next :eek: It was great when I first opened the account, though it was Alliance & Leicester then I was hoping to be able to print out some statements but it won't even let me log on.

Didn't make pasta bake - I found 2 elderly large potatoes so jacketed those and had them with tuna mayo and salad. The spuds needed using up first by the looks of them :eek:

Went shopping this evening to Mr M and was a bit disappointed this time, as a lot of the shelves were empty. Never mind, I can get the few other bits I need in Waitrose over the weekend. Back to A!dis next week I think! It is nice to have a change every now and then though.

Hair cut and mooch around the charity shops tomorrow morning

TwinnyD

I love strawberries but my plants are looking very sorry for themselves. Think I'll be lucky if I get 3 in total!

DawnW

Got hair cut this morning, then wandered round the charity shops, but didn't buy anything. Got some potatoes and fruit from the greengrocers, and popped into Waitrose on the way home to get the few bits still needed. Got some nice free range chicken breast reduced, so decided to make a huge chicken and veg curry using what was in the fridge and larder, and loads of spinach from the garden. We have had some, but loads left, so all sorted for Monday's supper after work

Did a bit in the garden - got rid of the spinach plants which were going to seed, but salvaged the best of the leaves. Unfortunately some of them had some horrid little green caterpillars on :eek: but I put on my trusty rubber gloves and washed them really well.

Picked the first mangetout - 2 to be precise :rotfl:

Also a few handfuls of broad beans and a few baby beetroot, all the first of the year, and a few more strawberries

I also tied the loganberry stems to their wires, as the wind has damaged them quite a lot this year, but there are some berries appearing

Lots of things in the garden aren't doing very well due to the rotten weather though We really need some sun and warm weather!

Got a load of washing dry, so the wind is good for something, if you catch it between the showers.

DD2 came round with some sweet little bread rolls that she had made (she has recently acquired some mini loaf tins, to make rolls in the shape of tiny loaves - she is like me, and loves her kitchen bits. Not sure I would bother with those though. Lovely rolls though!), and insisted we had some with tea, butter and jam, hence late (and small) dinner.

Going to see DD1 and 2 little GDs tomorrow I got them some books whilst in town. I have spoiled them a bit, as they always look to see what I have brought them but that is what grandmas are for, surely :rotfl: