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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,623 Ambassador
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    McColourblinds indeed.
    They are truly dire( & I am a very patriotic Scot) :(
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,623 Ambassador
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    I love Stirling campus~~ will never ever see it in the same light again :(
    (That's where DS goes).
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    beanielou wrote: »
    I love Stirling campus~~ will never ever see it in the same light again :(

    If you saw it "in the flesh" as it were, you won't be seeing anything in any light again...
    beanielou wrote: »
    (That's where DS goes).

    Get him to take photos of where the grass scorched.
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    beanielou wrote: »
    McColourblinds indeed.
    They are truly dire( & I am a very patriotic Scot) :(

    Well I'm not a patriotic Scot - and they're dire.

    Even worse than the deck chair/shop awning/windbreak kit Newcastle put out a few years ago. Beating that is impressive - but for all the wrong reasons...
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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,539 Forumite
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    Loving this weather, warm and sunny but not so hot it's hard to sleep, tomorrow and friday off so hoping it stays.
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,623 Ambassador
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    Hurrah to Thursday & Friday off :j
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    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,539 Forumite
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    beanielou wrote: »
    Hurrah to Thursday & Friday off :j

    Two days Beanie! In a row:D did turn down an extra day but sometimes money just doesn't beat time off;)
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000
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  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    Two days Beanie! In a row:D

    That's almost like a weekend. You'll be getting soft... ;)
    did turn down an extra day but sometimes money just doesn't beat time off;)

    Oh...it's loaded_spice now... ;)

    Enjoy your time off - seems the weather will be good in your neck of the woods until the real weekend.
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,539 Forumite
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    ZTD wrote: »
    That's almost like a weekend. You'll be getting soft... ;)


    I know! I'm a student - I should be treking across Europe or something!:p

    ZTD wrote: »
    Oh...it's loaded_spice now... ;)

    Nah, it's easier to make that decision when you have a minimum wage job;) Well sort of, obviously it takes longer to meet minimum costs but you know what I mean;)
    ZTD wrote: »
    Enjoy your time off - seems the weather will be good in your neck of the woods until the real weekend.

    Thank you, just hung washing out and it's really hot outside, must grab a book and go sit in the garden (think DS is off out with friends).

    £160 paid off mortgage which brings me into the £37Ks:j:j:j only just by a pound but it's broken into another thousand:D

    oh and have had SAAS letter so fees getting paid and should get money to live on soon, only another two months of living off wages and savings:D
    Mortgage OP 2025 £7050/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £34,965

    Money making challenge £78/400

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    I know! I'm a student - I should be treking across Europe or something!:p

    Or you could be saving primates like the Wild Apes of Dunfermline...
    Nah, it's easier to make that decision when you have a minimum wage job;) Well sort of, obviously it takes longer to meet minimum costs but you know what I mean;)

    I do...
    £160 paid off mortgage which brings me into the £37Ks:j:j:j only just by a pound but it's broken into another thousand:D

    When it reaches zero - that too will only be by a pound...
    oh and have had SAAS letter so fees getting paid and should get money to live on soon, only another two months of living off wages and savings:D

    :T
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."
    OMD 'Julia's Song'
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