Edinburgher gets cracking!

slowlyfading

Enjoy the cinema and happy new year :beer:

muddywhitechicken

Happy New Year to you too ed

nattypants

Happy Hogmany Ed and Mrs. Ed, (and followers of Ed:D)

pennyforthepot

happy New Year Mr and Mrs E - wishing you all the best for 2014 and looking forward to your inspirational posts
PFTP X

tootoo

happy new year ed

Pearla*Merle

Cheers for the heads up on that burger place, Ed! My brother lives in Glasgow, it's going on the list for next time we're up

Lifestyle inflation, that's it in a nutshell really, great terminology... which I shall now be nicking for my own personal use Seriously though, Mr Merle & I have the same kind of conversations - practice like mad to make our money stretch super far so we can defy the odds and live somewhere charming.

Anyway, Happy Hogmanay! It's very weird not being up in Scotland for it (first time in ages I've not gone home for Christmas), thankfully I can get BBC Scotland down here, Jackie Bird fix ahoy! :rotfl:

edinburgher

Happy New Year PM

Mrs E and I also did our stint in the South (2-3 years in London) and it was always good to come home. I think family means more to you (In both emotional and practical terms) once we get out of our roaring 20s and start to think about the more grown up things in life.

No hangover today (relatively abstemious Hogmany, Mrs E didn't drink *at all*). We had a 4 course dinner (HM spinach and pea soup, smoked salmon with a Caesar salad, haggis, Yorkshire puds and veg and jewelled Christmas pudding with cream for dessert) :burp: Relatively straightforward to prepare, £60+ cheaper than the restaurant meal we'd planned and we even have leftovers... :money:

• Withdrew £17.99 after fees for my N3xt voucher. A little disappointing, but it was a 'freebie' after all
• Transferred £15.86 N@tionwide interest to S@ntander
• Opened new N@tionwide account for Mrs E
• Need to investigate Clyd3sdale Bank accounts, we've now got the max Flex Direct accounts we can have
• £5.65 to Freedom Fund
• £4 to Remortgage Pot
• £2 to Kitchen Pot

nattypants

Happy 2014 Ed:)

PS. I've often wondered if you have any more thoughts on entering teaching?

edinburgher

PS. I've often wondered if you have any more thoughts on entering teaching?

Not really NP. I think I have a tendency to get too focused on 'careers' and jobs that it's easy to describe with a label. While what I do at the moment is a bit of a mish-mash, I don't think I'm going anywhere in a hurry and it pays pretty well.

Teaching was probably a bit too far outside of my comfort zone, but I'm glad I took the time and spoke to enough people to realise that that is the case :beer:

edinburgher

I am thinking that I will need to build an ark at this rate :eek:

We didn't get up to much today other than getting up horrendously late and going to Dobbie's (for me to look at the fish) and Ikea (for Mrs E to look at the usual Ikea carp).

Mrs E is going back to work tomorrow and I'm trying to soften the blow by offering her a lift in

• £6.77 withdrawn from TCB
• £5.99 to Freedom Fund
• £4 to Remortgage Pot
• £2 to Kitchen Pot
• 25p for a VO survey.
• Felt somewhat peeved to have been group pressured into contributing nearly £50 towards a friend's Birthday present :mad: Have discussed with Mrs E and she has agreed that there is no way we're doing that again!