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cazmanian_minx

DebtFree2012 wrote: »

Did you get your outfit for the meeting?

I have now One gorgeous red Jigsaw shift dress sniped on eBay for £5.62+£3.30 postage :T:T:T:T

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JIGSAW-red-smooth-feel-27-linen-fully-lined-knee-length-dress-size-2-UK-12-VGC-/121673709518?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=Wf4bedQ3ar9YO2whqkhR5x0zFt8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

DebtFree2012

Gorgeous!! Have a lovely time away and catching up on some much needed sleep.

cazmanian_minx

I have to say, it's very nice not to have to go and push a wheelbarrow around twice a day

I have, however, been doing a bit of work this evening, as Mr RPC forgot I was on holiday, so I sorted him out and then sent an email to remind him I was away. I was supposed to get the first interview from the £600 job through today as well, but it hasn't popped up on the link they gave me and there's been no notification email either, so I assume they've been delayed. If there's nothing through tomorrow, I'll email them and find out what's going on.

Mr Minx is currently stuck at Gatwick airport - he spent two days trying to check in online with EasyJet and getting a 'We cannot check you in at this time, please go to the check-in desk at the airport' message only to find when he got there this afternoon that his flight had been overbooked and they didn't actually have a seat for him. He's waiting to see if everyone turns up for boarding - he's only got hand luggage, so he can hop on at the last minute if there's space - but it looks like they're going to put him on tomorrow's flight instead. I've done some Googling and told him to ask them to put him up in a hotel in Luton tonight and then put him on that flight, as the Luton one leaves 3 hours earlier than the Gatwick one. At least EasyJet has admitted up front it's their fault and said they'll bear all the associated costs - they were talking about trying to get him on the BA flight to Edinburgh tonight and then taxi him to Inverness. I hope they do sort something because he's not in the best of moods about it, bless him.

cazmanian_minx

Mr Minx managed to get on his original flight and has now been reunited with an ecstatic small spaniel

The first interview came through this afternoon and I typed it up this evening - nice clear audio and an interviewer who knew her job and kept the interviewee on track, which is always good but doubly important when you're typing the responses into a grid rather than just doing a straight transcript.

Tomorrow we're off in search of red kites and red deer. I have a long lens and high hopes

cazmanian_minx

No scores today I'm afraid - I haven't been at home all week anyway, so there won't be any change on last week.

We did manage the Big Red Three in one day! Deer and kites I was pretty sure of, because we were going to the red deer station in the forest, where deer are fed, and Bellymack Farm, where kites are fed, but I really, really wanted to see a red squirrel as well, so when I picked up a leaflet about the red kite trail that said there was an RSPB reserve nearby that sometimes got them on their feeders, we made a quick detour. And, blow me down, after half an hour of sitting in a hide, one appeared on a peanut feeder!

I can't really edit pictures too well on the laptop, because the screen's rubbish, but here are a couple of quick ones I've uploaded.





Think I'm getting my eye back in

dawnybabes

Wow fantastic pictures x

gallygirl

Stunning Caz :T:T:T

Deb__123

I have just finished reading this entire diary.... which considering that I came across it completely randomly and that I am not a single penny In debt. ( These days. Killed 5k of debt 8 years ago.)
I have found it both interesting, funny, educating and inspiring!

So thankyou for being the last few days my guilty pleasure.

Seems your well on the way to being DF. It's a lovely feeling. I shall go back to lurking and enjoying the view to your life through the snapshots of words.

cazmanian_minx

Wow, thank you Deb, the longer this waffle goes on, the more flattered I am that someone bothers to read it from the start!

Well, sit-rep now I'm home. The garden and the vegetable patch have both exploded, mainly with weeds, and I forgot to ask Mr Minx to water the inhabitants of the cold frame. Lost the celeriac, but amazingly the Brussels sprouts have survived It took me two hours to weed the potato patch this morning and one barrow-load of muck has been dumped on it to earth them up - think I need about 4 or 5 more.

I've put three loads of laundry through and everything bar the whites (not enough for a load) is now clean, but not yet dry. Big ironing pile and lots of folding to be done.

The Jigsaw dress arrived and is beautiful, but doesn't fit I think an old-numbering-system Jigsaw 2 is actually a 10 rather than a 12, there's about two inches at the top of my ribs where the zip won't meet, it's fine up to there and it'll be fine above it. Three weeks of paleo-style eating coming up in an attempt to lose enough water/back fat to get into it!

I switched the shop back on on Friday evening and have 12 orders to post tomorrow, along with an hour's typing from the agency and probably a ton of work to do for Mr RPC - it's going to be a busy week!

DebtFree2012

Lovely to have you back! Can't you just wear a cardi and safty pins