Edinburgher gets cracking!

HelenDaveKids

I had noisette on my kitchen walls to stop the chocolatey hand prints! (didnt work though)

When we bought current house, all sixties carpets, you could easily have vomitted and not noticed it on the carpet.

edinburgher

• Ran 8.12 miles
• Completed tiny YG survey
• £3 to Freedom Fund
• £11.22 to 2017
• £5 to Baby Pot
• Need to clean big fish tank
• Making gammon cooked in cola for dinner

Have a lovely day all :coffee:

• Cleaned shoes again
• Washed fish towels
• Cleaned some surfaces (this weekend, everything features white vinegar)
• Gammon is *fab*
• Considering starting a new batch of HB this evening
• Discussions over on DDFW's thread have got me considering MB

Alchemilla

Great runing, well done.

edinburgher

Cheers Al, I'm really getting into it, pace was less than 9 min/mile today, which I'm perfectly happy with. If I can scale that up for the half marathon distance, it will be a perfectly respectable first race

New batch of homebrew up and running in the spare room - a 23l stout kit made with 18.5l of water. I believe that should take it from 4% to 5.25% or thereabouts.

I stupidly forgot to take a sample for the hydrometer, so can't be sure

edinburgher

Screened out of a VO survey - how many people can meet the criteria of having bought a car in the last year and plan to buy another in the next year?!

• £1 to Freedom Fund
• £12 to 2017
• £5 to Baby Pot
• HB has started to ferment
• Nackered after yesterday's run! :eek:
• Disruption at work today due to resignation of senior manager provides a good opportunity to look for jobs and complete some electronic training modules

Take care everyone, hope your Mondays are ok.

*Edit: We've been in our flat for 2 years as of today, it feels like longer

PositiveBalance

edinburgher wrote: »

Screened out of a VO survey - how many people can meet the criteria of having bought a car in the last year and plan to buy another in the next year?!

Don't forget that you have to wear red underwear and *only* eat Weetabix for breakfast to be able to qualify as well!

• edinburgher wrote: »

  HB has started to ferment

Erm, I was so scared of the results of mine it's still in the barrel...about 3 weeks after I put it there! :eek:

• edinburgher wrote: »

  Disruption at work today due to resignation of senior manager provides a good opportunity to look for jobs and complete some electronic training modules

Go you! *Scuttles off to apply for jobs for herself*

edinburgher

Well PB, I think my fermentation has definitely kicked off, the stout has a giant foamy crest (think comedy bath photos of babies with shampoo crowns, or the seaside after a storm) :beer:

I didn't find any jobs to apply for yesterday, there seems to be a bit of a lull at the moment. I also had a very discouraging meeting with HR re. pension where they basically repeated all the facts and claims (that *I* provided) and then said that they'd done nothing practical to resolve them.

Today is one of my horrible stressful days, as I have a deadline to send on commentary and am being roundly ignored. One of the people I could escalate the matter with leaves in 7 days, the other is on holiday for 7 days :mad: So another month of looking ineffectual.

• Posted eB@y parcel last night
• eB@y voucher at £10.51, closes today :j
• £1.11 to Freedom Fund
• £12 to 2017
• £6 to Baby Pot
• Sig updated

edinburgher

Dang nabbit!

We have received a letter from the new mortgage lender stating that our remortgage won't cover the existing mortgage (I'd requested £108k, apparently we still owe c. £109.5k).

We can either increase borrowing, or pay it. As I don't want to use £1.5k of our savings at this point (and it won't break our LTV band), I guess we'll just need to borrow more.

Slightly annoyed that my plan has fallen short in this regard, but I suppose that we don't actually owe any more today than we did yesterday? My logic being that we'd owe the current lender the higher sum regardless of moving or not.

Does that sound sensible?

edinburgher

I have started my MB career

Should I be worried that a well known betting exchange fell over mere seconds after I registered? :eek:

edinburgher

MB is terrifying! I don't think that I'm currently at any risk of losing money, but a potential £38 profit has required tying up c. £500 of my own money until tomorrow evening :eek:

The maths is persuasive, but as I'm not a gambler it feels wrong at a basic level.

Today was a hectic day off of shopping, fish tank cleaning and taxi services. Mrs E's sister gets married tomorrow, will be a lovely day, but expensive. £100 for a present, £50 for drinks etc., just glad that Mrs E can't drink and can give me a lift home when I'm in my cups :rotfl:

Completed a ridiculous amount of surveys (well over an hour spent on them) and have been invited to take part in another one of the mega VO surveys on financial products. They last a week, feature texts and pictures and I think I made £9? off the last one :beer:

Now heading off for a bath, general groom, shoe polishing and a big dinner.

Happy weekend all

Ps. £1 to Freedom Fund, you will notice my savings total has taken a dive