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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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Another one impressed by the step count.Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!0 -
Welcome back...you seem to be full steam ahead with your plans - good luck with it all.
MCIMortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
OP's to Date £8500
Renovation Fund:£511.39;
Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)0 -
Just having a quick catch-up on your news MWC and it appears that everyone has gone keep fit c-r-a-z-y since I've been away. What's all this with you averaging like a million steps a day???? I thought you were one of me .....February13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
C'mon nattypants:cool:0 -
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15,000 steps today at slow plod pace - it was hard work today!
First installment of the Norwegian trip for Greying:
Day 1 - arrived in Oslo, spent the afternoon exploring the city and visiting the beautiful botanical garden
Day 2 - visited the viking ship and Kon-Tiki museums
Day 3 - visited the national gallery to see Edvard Munch's The Scream before getting on the train for the 7-hour trip to Bergen
A couple of photos from the train window:
Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
nattypants wrote: »Just having a quick catch-up on your news MWC and it appears that everyone has gone keep fit c-r-a-z-y since I've been away. What's all this with you averaging like a million steps a day???? I thought you were one of me .....
Don't worry Natty - as Mr MWC told me this evening - walking is not proper exercise!Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
oooooooo - Adventurising pics :j:j
Would you believe, I was talking to someone today, who had just come back off hols in........... Norway! They'd been cruising on the Fjords though. But they had a smashing time too, despite having to buy a ski hat in June 'coz the weather was a little pants.....
Gosh, aren't the houses/buildings such interesting colours.....
Was the Viking ship museum of Day 2 the one that was on that docu with Andrew Graham-Dixon?
Ta for sharing MWC - mucho appreciated
GreyingGrocery spend April 2026 £158.03/£200
Non-food spend April 2026 £15.99/£80
Bulk Fund 2026 Month 4/12 - £4.48/£98.02 (reducing balance - start £120 pa)
""Mother Nature don't draw straight lines
The broken moulds in a grand design
We look a mess but we're doing fine
We're card carrying lifelong members
Of the union of different kinds..."
"Union of the Different kinds" - R Christie & T Gilbert, Fisherman's Friends0 -
Also, does anyone else get the feeling that if you *trip-trap, trip-trap, trip-trapped* over that rickety, rackety bridge to the red house, a troll would appear out of nowhere and gobble you up? :rotfl: Or have I been reading too many fairy tales? :rotfl:
Have a great day MWC
GreyingGrocery spend April 2026 £158.03/£200
Non-food spend April 2026 £15.99/£80
Bulk Fund 2026 Month 4/12 - £4.48/£98.02 (reducing balance - start £120 pa)
""Mother Nature don't draw straight lines
The broken moulds in a grand design
We look a mess but we're doing fine
We're card carrying lifelong members
Of the union of different kinds..."
"Union of the Different kinds" - R Christie & T Gilbert, Fisherman's Friends0 -
No because a fairy godmother lives in the yellow houseGreying_Pilgrim wrote: »Also, does anyone else get the feeling that if you *trip-trap, trip-trap, trip-trapped* over that rickety, rackety bridge to the red house, a troll would appear out of nowhere and gobble you up? :rotfl: Or have I been reading too many fairy tales? :rotfl:
Have a great day MWC
Greying
Fabulous pictures!Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!0 -
OMG, I didn't realise you'd gone to Norway, I love Norway! We've been there a couple of times on cruises.
When we were in Oslo we did the Viking ship and Kon-Tiki museums.
Looking forward to seeing the Bergen photos. I expect you went on the funicular up Mount Floyen. I loved doing that!Early retired - 18th December 2014
If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough0 -
You have a great eye for composition on photographs MWC. Norway looks fab:TFebruary13 - £74990 (or thereabouts)
MND - Let's go for 2020 'cos it's got a nice ring to it:D
C'mon nattypants:cool:0
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