our forever patch challenge

sammy70

Still awaiting bl**dy quotes!:mad: don't people want to take our hard earned cash?

Mortgage standard payment of £1208.83 went out 1st of the month, interest of £441.01, so new outstanding mortgage balance = £242,612.18

Oh, by the way, we did win the lottery last Saturday- £25!!:rotfl:

sammy70

just done account check/tidy, and made first of February overpayments of £28.89:j

Right, now to get stuck into some housework, its lovely outside, so lovely walk after chores me thinks!:T

sammy70

Where did the weekend go?
Back to work today, hectic as usual on a Monday.

No spending today..

Quote in for stockfencing- £3,500 :eek: We have booked the fence guy, hopefully 1st week in March, cant wait to get this first project completed, so no escaping dog, and no dogs can enter our land making it safer for our future chooks etc

Still awaiting quote for work on the workshop

sammy70

brrr its snowing here, and really cold , but after stoking up our stove we are snuggly and warm

It was my saturday to work worst luck, so was hair raising doing my first drive up our lane to the road in the snow, wasnt too deep thankfully

Ive done the cleaning, and couldnt resist account tidy, and £83.29 overpayment to the mortgage, rounding it to a neat £242, 500 :T

Im looking forward to getting into the £230s, its so satisfing getting below the next number, or is that just me?
Ive got a early valentines treat night for hubby planned tonight, seeing as he is working tuesday, got a few valentine treats from aldi, and im treating him to a nice tea, beef wellington, treacle sponge and fancy custard for afters, lot came in under £20 , well we have got a mortgage to pay off and land /fencing to sort :rotfl:

The quote has finally come in for the workshop repair, not as much as we were fearing, so may be enough to sort the roof too in the coffers, thats next job to get quote for that

Have a lovely snuggly weekend everyone

Kittenkirst

Enjoy your early valentines meal :heartpuls beef wellington sounds scrumptious!

sammy70

Hey Kiittenkirst, the beef wellington was yummy!:)

We have probably consumed too many calories this week cupcakes from Aldi, along with lovely chocolates, and drinks.. Oh well we are celebrating love ! :rotfl:

sammy70

The weekend is here again

Hopefully the weather will stay good, sunday we want to make a start on the mega undergrowth clearane (its gonna be long prikly job :rotfl:)

Tommorrow is house cleaning in the morning, and doggy walk, i love being here in our little rural haven :)

chumpy45

Good luck with the garden clearance, your plans sound great. Fingers crossed the weather is kind to you. I managed a lovely afternoon in the sunshine today clearing leaves and tidying up borders after the winter. Definitely felt a little springlike :T

sammy70

we had a lovely weekend, one of my favourite parts was flinging the be droom windows wide, and listening to the birds dawn chorus, so tranquil, especially snuggled listening with cuppaa under duvet, a brilliant start to any early morning weekend:)

Made a £100 overpayment tonight, so new balance now £242,400

Nearly payday, we have a lot of outgoings next month, stockfencing and workshop stonework repair, we have also purchased chainsaw, large strimmer, log splitting tools and wheel barrows, we have to buy large ladders too as house guttering choked with moss, and we are going to tackle this ourselves. Hubby would rather we bought good ladders that we can use again and again, rather than pay some handy man same ammount for just one gutter clearance.:)

We have plenty of tasks to get stuck into this year, we have a two year plan to get land/fencing/out buildings something like, then phase 2 is animals :T

I plan to save as much as we can whilst we are doing this over the 2 years, for phase 2 of our plans, we are going to be busy, but we love it!

sammy70

My pay day today, and after doing the budget for this month,paying off the tools etc off the creditcard in full, we have managed another £300 mortgage overpayment today, and £300 to our emergency fund.

New mortgage balance £242,100
Emergency fund in p.bonds- £1000 :beer: