The Ultimate Incentive part 10. The only thing holding you back is you.

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  • Birdie85
    Birdie85 Posts: 9,330 Forumite
    edited 31 July 2013 at 11:38AM
    Gosh, that's exciting Flower! :) When's your due date? :)

    ETA: Cross posted with you Cinny! I love that jumper and dress! :) Shame I'm turning into a porker and they won't fit. If it goes on sale I might have to get the jumper to put away for next autumn... :) Nice coat too, get it!
    Overcome the notion that you must be ordinary. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary!
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  • Flower08
    Flower08 Posts: 4,771 Forumite
    5th November! So I will only be 29 weeks by the time I go on maternity leave, but I plan to spend the time getting the new house sorted and getting all the babies stuff ready. And i'm sure running around after DS I wont get too bored!
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  • Cinny91
    Cinny91 Posts: 6,022 Forumite
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    Awh, a November girl! She'll be one of the cool, older girls in her year :) Hope you're okay with how warm it's been, I'm so tempted to put off TTC in the next few months because I don't want to be pregnant when it's summer!

    I do love that coat, but I also like the idea of a cape! (And that's only £20!)
  • Birdie85
    Birdie85 Posts: 9,330 Forumite
    November baby will be lovely, as will a nice relaxing time at home before she arrives. :)

    I'm feeling pretty miffed this afternoon, heard back from my train mate and with his 'discount' he can get me standard fares for £40 return... it's £39.20 on the trainline and I'll get cashback! If I'd just booked it when I looked last week it'd have only cost me about £32! I'd love to know how his discount works out more expensive than buying direct! :p
    Overcome the notion that you must be ordinary. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary!
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  • Tete_en_l'Air
    Tete_en_l'Air Posts: 7,134 Forumite
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    Yeah I only paid £32 Birdie and I'm going further than you! Reminds me of a time my ex and I were planning a weekend in London; one of his friends was a travel agent and said he'd look into a discount for us and came back with something at about £400! Considering you can get cheapo deals inc. train, hotel and theatre tickets for about £120 ... we went to Rome instead for that £400. Madness.
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  • Dinah93
    Dinah93 Posts: 11,466 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Bake Off Boss!
    we paid £109 for two people, it would have been £69 but I forgot to input card details and ended up messing about with Grace, and when I went an hour later the return leg had skyrocketed.
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  • kavics17
    kavics17 Posts: 2,235 Forumite
    I have a november baby, she is awesome!;)

    Enough time to recover for Christmas and eat as much as you want at Christmas (blame post baby belly), enjoy the bad weather from inside and make use of Internet shopping for Christmas. You can have an awesome summer with your crawling baby before returning to work (or with a lazy one like mine:D).

    Same can be adjusted for February babies:D.
  • Birdie85
    Birdie85 Posts: 9,330 Forumite
    Woot, booked my tickets! :) Will be arriving at 10.15, looking very bleary eyed no doubt! :D
    Overcome the notion that you must be ordinary. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary!
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  • Dinah93
    Dinah93 Posts: 11,466 Forumite
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    Are you on the Grand Central train Birdie or the East Coast?
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  • clearmydebts
    clearmydebts Posts: 6,485 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Have been really busy at work so trying to catch up on here!

    Dinah - we haven't booked flights yet but will let you know when our return flight is and if it works out we would love to meet up with yourself and NIM :)

    Lovely to go on maternity at 29 weeks Flower. I went at 34 weeks on Evie because my boss was such a b*tch and I had worked up so much toil. I was so happy the week I finished and then OH got run over and I ended up minding him and Max whilst heavily pregnant. Doh!

    Love that mushroom dress Cinny!
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