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  • Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS
    Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS Posts: 7,854 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    southerndave wrote: »
    Sure it wasn't just white spirit?!:rotfl:
    With this enforced lack of spending nothing would surprise me :rotfl:
    2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
    2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
    Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j
  • southerndave
    southerndave Posts: 554 Forumite
    MIserable Saturday morning. Raining. Dark. Bored. Should have gone to work I think and at least earned some money.....

    Thinking of starting a Blog.....anyone else Blog regularly?
  • abouttimetoo
    abouttimetoo Posts: 1,860 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Morning SD, I hear you re the miserable morning, just switched my living room light off as it was so dark before. In fact it feels like the lights have not been off since last Monday apart from Thursday which wasn't too bad

    Apart from Thursday it's literally rained day and night here since last Sunday :eek:

    No, never done a blog before, do your diaries count :o

    Thinking this is day to get jobs done in the house and attack the paperwork gremlins. Definitely not doing any work work this weekend, wouldn't get paid and had more than enough long hours during the week

    By the way, you're going great guns with your mortgage, go you!

    Regards
    ATT
    MFW Start Date 1.4.08. Updated 23.1.18. MFW date 1.8.18
    Original Mortgage o/s £187,643 / £71,904 (-115,739)
    Repay o/s £92,661 / now £55,900 (-36,761)
    Int Only o/s £94,982, now £16,004 (-78,978)
    Total daily interest £1 [a) £0.77 b)£0.23
    Total OP's:2018 target £TBC YTD £1,995
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,087 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Thinking of starting a Blog.....anyone else Blog regularly?

    I've never blogged before, but have considered it.

    There are a raft of frugal/voluntary simplicity/finance/side project blogs out there - that sort of thing or something more focused?

    I think as long as you can turn out a page or two of readable writing, have any sort of a personality and have a theme there's always room for one more :)
  • southerndave
    southerndave Posts: 554 Forumite
    Thanks for replies.

    Wasn't really thinking of any particular theme to be honest, just somewhere to spout some of the rubbish that goes through my brain regularly. Mainly politics, philosophy, good ideas, bad ideas,rants, raves, interesting bits of information I pick up along the way, odd review of books, etc.
  • newgirly
    newgirly Posts: 9,404 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Name Dropper
    Hi southerndave, Definatly start a blog I'll read it :D
    MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁
  • southerndave
    southerndave Posts: 554 Forumite
    Ta da! Go easy......

    http://southerndave.blogspot.co.uk/
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,087 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    southerndave wrote: »
    Ta da! Go easy......

    http://southerndave.blogspot.co.uk/

    Dave - not being sycophantic - but a genuinely good read :T

    Think you've got something there.

    Love the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, I think it should be a mandatory school text.
  • southerndave
    southerndave Posts: 554 Forumite
    Thanks appreciate that. Wait for part 2 though, you might change your mind! It is really an exercise for me in writing and something to do when its raining, so good to know it has been enjoyed already. :o:o
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    I enjoyed it too Dave, interesting to read what comes next. :T.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
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