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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • Secret_Saving_Squirrel
    Secret_Saving_Squirrel Posts: 4,138 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    Well done. Just starting my weight loss campaign this weekend. I want to lose ten pounds in three weeks for half term. I will keep you posted as I hope that you may be moderately interested whereas nobody at all in real life can bear to listen to me telling the what I haven't eaten every day!
    Paid off mortgage nine years early in 2013. Now picking and choosing our work to fit in with the rest of our lives!
    Still thrifty though, after all these years:D
  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,806 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Rampant Recycler Hung up my suit!
    Yum, coconut treacle sounds awesome

    Well done on the weight loss
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  • Greying_Pilgrim
    Greying_Pilgrim Posts: 6,621 Forumite
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    Superb progress on the weight loss and walking regime MWC :D

    And I've got to ask - what colour is coconut treacle? And is it done like that for storage purposes, or is there a culinary reason why you'd have that over coconut water/milk/meat etc?

    Greying x
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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Bliss! That meal sounds like bliss! And I'm sure the weight will keep coming off too, you're aware now :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • greent
    greent Posts: 10,783 Forumite
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    Well done re weight loss - fab stuff!! :D:D


    Looking forward to hearing news of the eggs (once they finally arrive.....)


    x
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
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  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 13,892 Forumite
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    Care to share some more photos MWC? I holiday vicariously through your snaps! :)
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    edinburgher wrote: »
    Care to share some more photos MWC? I holiday vicariously through your snaps! :)

    I'm working on it ed - first installment this evening!
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    edited 3 May 2015 at 10:08PM
    I was hungry this afternoon so I'm starting with photos of food!

    Day 4 - Hoi An

    We went to the market in Hoi An twice - once as part of a walking tour of the city and again to buy ingredients during our Vietnamese cooking class.

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    Walking round the market was thirsty work so we stopped for a beer...

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    ... 5,000 Vietnamese Dong = 15p :beer:

    We also drank a lot of ca phe sua da - strong Vietnamese coffee with sweetened condensed milk and lots of ice - delicious :drool:

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    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    Is that hairy crabs? Nom nom nom :)
    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"
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Day 5 - Hoi An

    Up at the crack of dawn for a cycling tour - cycling in the city was terrifying but it was so peaceful in the surrounding villages.

    Rice and lotus fields
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    Market garden
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    We also rode water buffaloes... but I'm not going to share photos of that!
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
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