This Time I'm Really Going To Do It

littlegreenpeas

Very impressed Watty.

FloppyDisk

Crumbs you are good at this Watty!

LauraJo

Wow that's proper MSE!! Impressed

Watty1

Thanks all. Hbbb the dying is so easy. Alchemilla love the image of you dying everything. Did ponyplops start out a grey? Seriously it was so simple and effective that will be doing that again.

Just had letter from bank, reducing savings rate to 0.5% and confirming it is still good to save. Err???? Better to overpay me thinks as interest rate on mortgage is 4 %.

greent

Alchemilla wrote: »

Watty you upcycled! ☆★☆★☆

I am a dyeing fiend! Curtains, bathmats, towels, sofa covers, my wedding dress.

What did you do with your dyed wedding dress, Alchemilla?

Watty1

Made a pair of sheepskin boot/slippers usable again by use of pinking shears (77) and gardener came yesterday and used up top soil (78) and grass seed (79). Hope it takes as lawn very bare.


Very exciting horse news - handsome baby has had his first jumping lesson. Lovely instructor rode him. We've loose schooled him and had a play about but this was first time proper jumping. He was somewhat perplexed that he was expected to go over the fence bless him, that really took some doing and it took her a while but she rode him beautifully. And stopped when he had jumped two small fences really nicely. Have suggested I pay her to jump him a few more times as I think he will learn a lot with her and ultimately be a better little pony for that.

Watty1

greent wrote: »

What did you do with your dyed wedding dress, Alchemilla?

Yes...curious minds want to know?

Watty1

Busy weekend and busy day Monday. Went with friend and her horse to a show on Saturday, took dog training Sunday, sat in sun for too long so very red and then busy day Monday at work.


My life is just such a whirl - hummm!!!


Up until midnight last night working on a report that should have been finished by today. Sent it off at 23.49, nothing like scraping in at the last moment.


Celebrated today with a great riding lesson with lovely instructor. We are teaching baby lateral work. Today he started to learn leg yield and quarters in. For the non horsey folk baby is just learning to fiddle about the riding arena

Watty1

Just been looking at my pension performance. It only made 2.8% last year. That did not seem very much interest to me. Then I remembered something. During one of my *think about finance* moments of which there were many that never amounted to anything I picked 6 shares. I found the list. I picked them in June 2012 and discovered that one of them has increased by 52% since then. A supermarket was amongst them and that had made a loss, and a bank was there and it stayed about the same, but the other 2 had made gains of 36% and 28%. Seems I outperformed my pension company :rotfl:


But it wasn't real money. However, inspired by Ed's diary in part and by reading on here I'm now about to start reading up on investing. At least I'm doing the research before jumping in but am thinking about a flutter as a way of saving for retirement.

Watty1

Have downloaded onto a kindle a book about investing. Am reading. Still on the overpayment mindset but am wondering about a flutter elsewhere.....


Note choice of word "flutter". I have long suspected I am a gambler at heart and so stay away from bookmakers and the racing pages.:rotfl: All I have learnt so far is that a gambling mindset tends to mean one loses everything...yep ..I figured that out as a child going to horseraces as the odd family day out which is why I don't bet on the horses :rotfl: