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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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GG :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
MWC thanks … mind duly boggled and off to google some of those.
(Note to self - NOT buying any to try until own stocks of albeit Bog Standard variety are gone!!)Fleabay + Weebuy + Gumfree since started diary 94 items sold, £649.71 clear profit0 -
Countdown = 11.5 hours :T
Apart from the pain, today has been a good day
- £55 refunded to CC
- £8 coupon used in WR and purchased wisely
- bought bargainous brassicas - mixed pack of 20 priced at £5.99 however it was the last one and 3 plants were missing so I asked for a discount (very unlike me!) - I paid £1 for 17 healthy plants :j
- brassicas (PSB, cabbage x 2 varieties, cauli & curly kale) planted out and broad bean and cavelo nero seeds sown
- tasty food - last of the HG padron peppers, lamb kebabs with pea, apricot & mint orzo and garlic yogurt (not very seasonal but we hadn't had a chance to cook it before now), and the last 2 gooseberry & hazelnut slices (leftover from when Tilly and Mr T last visited) with fresh custard :drool:
- 2 bags of apples gifted by neighbour
Eggs IN 6
Eggs OUT 6 (gifted to neighbour)Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Plan for today:
- Phone dentist at 08:00 for appointment today (3.5 hours!)
- Send 1 important work e-mail
- Cancel lunch with friend tomorrow as I'll be on the wrong side of the Atlantic
- Buy prunes and start soaking dried fruit for Christmas puddings
- Apples!
- Sow winter salad seeds in pots
- Potter around house & garden
- Read water meter (easier said than done) and submit reading
Plan for once I'm pain-free and no longer fuzzy-headed:
- Work, work and more work to catch-upMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Good luck with dentist - toothache seems to make everywhere hurt.
Thanks for the reminder about Christmas cake - will put that on my list for this week.
Very best wishes Tilly x x x2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j0 -
2 more hours - hopefully third time lucky and then no more toothache *fingers crossed*Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
I hope you get relief from your toothache today MWC. Good luck at the dentist xSave £10,500 - £2673.77 - 25.5%
Pay off £7000 - £1743 - 19.4%
Make £2021 extra income - £99.750 -
Back from the dentist (they bought the appointment forward an hour :T) minus the nerves in the troublesome tooth - hopefully I'll be pain-free now
I need a nap!Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Have a lovely nap - hope you've woken up feeling more normal again! xa penny picker upper. MFW approx 78% to go | FIRE 3 years worth (30% savings rate: now aiming for 40%!) | Normality is a paved road; it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it | Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible | The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library0
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Phew! Good news that they have removed the root (tee hee) of the pain...NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0
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