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Adventures of a Fat Cat, Old Nag and their Trusty Servant

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  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
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    Here's to the new life in the new home...have a wonderful few days settling in and getting comfortable Piq...you deserve all the happiness in the world :)
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  • I took a large sandwich bag of horse manure round Tesco once - forgot I had it in my bag to drop off at the vet for a worm count! I'm sure they wouldn't have been very pleased if they'd known....

    Glad the move has gone relatively smoothly and wishing you every happiness in your new home :)
  • Piq - wishing you every happiness in your new home :D

    Loved hearing the 'moving in' tales.

    Plus loving the 'confessional' thing that you've started :D:rotfl:

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  • Piquant_2
    Piquant_2 Posts: 5,769 Forumite
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    I'm glad it's not just me :o I still can't believe I took a cat poo to the supermarket :o

    I have just spent ages trying to change my address online for my TV license, just kept timing out :mad: I've managed to change my bank details, but now I'm being refused purchase by the 'verified by visa' thing at the end of an online purchase. Very frustrating. I'm trying to order a bookcase. I've given up for the day, tomorrow is another day and all that!

    Finally, I've been able to cook, no ready meal or takeaway. Just a simple made from scratch tomato and chilli pasta with a glass of wine :) Had to be simple I'm cooking with gas for the first time :eek: Didn't dare leave the kitchen.
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  • Piquant_2
    Piquant_2 Posts: 5,769 Forumite
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    lindens wrote: »
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    Glad you have settled in, loving Colin and his phantom mice :) glad he seems to approve of the new abode.

    Lindens we know you're there....stop lurking! Poor Colin was worryingly funny chasing the phantom mice as his back legs kept giving way meaning he was sprawling in a very inelegant way. Literally falling down drunk. I wish I'd taken a picture of him asleep in my mum's shower cubicle a very un-cat like place to sleep.
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  • MrsAtobe
    MrsAtobe Posts: 1,404 Forumite
    Piq, so glad everything went smoothly, and I sincerely hope you get on better with a gas hob than I do! As soon as the guarantee is up on our house in April 2015, my gas hob will be changed to one that runs on elektrickery :D
    Good enough is good enough, and I am more than good enough!:j

    If all else fails, remember, keep calm and hug a spaniel!
  • Glad all is well Piq. Going to the supermarket with a bad of warm poo... that really made me laugh :-D .

    Don't worry about the gas hob you will get used to it fast enough. Until I moved in with DHI had only ever cooked on electric.. didn't take long to adjust at all.
  • Glad the move went well.:T

    I guess your mum still has all the goodies/food that she brought Colin if he was content enough in the shower:rotfl:
  • Piquant_2
    Piquant_2 Posts: 5,769 Forumite
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    Well that's it. Finally after five years and nearly £70k of debt and £150k of mortgage.......I am debt and mortgage free :T I have paid off my last credit card, the mortgage was cleared on Tuesday and I do not have an overdraft :T Feels a bit strange to be honest. To stay in the mse way I rounded down my current account and transferred the £8.19 to my savings account, very odd not to send it to the credit card.

    Today I bought a new slow cooker, turns out the old one got broken in the move, and some milk. I don't feel the need to buy anything else.

    I'm going to have to put a whole new budget in place and a savings plan too. A good start to December.
    Total debt at October 2008: £67,213.30
    Total debt today: £0
    - debt and mortgage free 29th November 2013 :T
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  • maddiemay
    maddiemay Posts: 5,120 Forumite
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    Fantastic news I am so pleased for you:T:T:T:T:T:T:T:T
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