The march to financial freedom

Eager_Elephant

Dansmam wrote: »

Bisto is deff vegan. Vegan kids and their much more vegan ohs allow me to buy it. I blame the parents. Leaves handy hint. Gets coat. Says on way out ppl died to get the vote. Men, women both. Best thought about and used. I switch it off when I don't want to think about it. Bored is a first world problem. Sorry, said with love x

Not sure if this reply was aimed at me or Ali so thought I would answer.


Normal Bisto is vegetarian but is not gluten free so Ali (and me and others who are GF) cannot have it.


I just happened to comment that I was vegetarian as well so maybe that's where the vegan bit came from.

Eager_Elephant

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

Hi Ali

Am surprised certain people dared show their faces let alone left narky comments once again taking the hump at things no-one even alluded to in the original posts. Amazing the amount of wind up merchants on here.

xx

But did you see the comments over on our Spanish friends thread - implying that some girls who had a mini holiday and then left without paying in full after treating people as skivvies was acceptable as they was just copying men!?!?


I fear a troll

Ali-OK

Day from hell is over :mad: Actually it's frustration at the incompetence of people who are paid to do their job and are carp at it. (BTW - I read Martin's bit on tax free interest and he wrote the word 'carp' in it but the right way around :eek: if board guides want to flag it up higher)

Hello everyone - normal me back again, good job I have low blood pressure :rotfl:

Lilt - I've been quiet on yours as I know you've been suffering with migraine and a painted purple child in various ways :rotfl: Can you read my mind :eek: my thoughts entirely.

Elections - Alex you've hit the nail on the head, it's the same spun messages that bore me rigid and it's constant. I want to see grown ups having a decent conversation not acting like hard done by children in primary school. How an earth can the biggest media platform be turned into some reality programme carp and we've to choose a country leader from that bunch? Shocking.

I'm neither earning less than the minimum wage nor live in a mansion sat on billions, so I'm guess I'm one of those 'hard working families' but I don't feel spoken to at all. But I do vote and always have, because then if my party of choice doesn't get into power, I have the right to moan :rotfl:.

We have 5 votes here on the day with additional ones for Local Mayor and PCC Council tax increase referendum. I get a postal vote so mine will be arriving early next week apparently

Broggers - I love your analogy, but do you not want to have your say even if no one party is exactly up your street? Isn't there one teeny-weeny bit of someone's manifesto that you think, yeah, that'd be good? Oh, ok then :rotfl:

Sky - It's been a god-send for various reasons over the years - an accompaniment to croup :rotfl: and a choice when Freeview didn't exist and channels on terrestrial were the great sum of...5. DS wouldn't be so history and military mad and found his forte if it wasn't for those channels. So it's staying for now at a nice reduced cost

Onto today then....

- Paid myself expenses but not done business banking. That's a tomorrow morning job and then I need to be in the office tomorrow afternoon as off on Monday to Kings again for the electrical tests and blood tests.

- DS is all upset from school. Stupid Lanaguges teacher (yes, she really is :mad:) accused him of not doing work in his book since 18th September last year and that earnt him a lunchtime detention but he couldn't go into school at lunchtime as it was shut due to exams. He's worried he'll get an afterschool one on Monday and I can't pick him up due to being in London.

- He's also been told he can't have his normal early Friday finish as he's fallen below the attendance percentage. Not because he's been ill, but because he's had a few medical appointments (physio, paediatrician and podiatrist). These count and I am so cross - they are discriminating again disabled children because you try getting those appointments out of school hours (which are 8.25 to 4.15pm with his transport at 7.40am and 4.30pm provided by school).

Cue phone call to school to complain and explain. Languages teacher needs sacking quite frankly. I intend to now pull him out of his remaining French and Spanish lessons for the rest of this year and he can do more English or something where a) he needs more help and b) there's an adult with a bean of intelligence. :mad:. Think school understand as she should have said something at parents eve last month! And I looked in his book...she's even marked it up to date. Stupid bint.

Talk about knowing how to undermine his self-esteem and confidence. I've also told them about my Mum and the impact that might be having on him, plus my own hospital issue on Monday. I expect some terse phone calls and probably a meeting next week.

Right, got a get a wiggle on as INOD says (sorry to pinch it)..got a lift coming to take us see Mum.

Happy weekend all

Ali-OK

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

But did you see the comments over on our Spanish friends thread - implying that some girls who had a mini holiday and then left without paying in full after treating people as skivvies was acceptable as they was just copying men!?!?


I fear a troll

Yep, and when they say they earn over £50k in their own thread and moan they don't have a pay rise, they're bound to garner a reaction. They also don't read posts properly or background or much else. Hope they took their own advice and got their coat

Even funnier, when you read their post on Robin's thread talking of colleagues on a years maternity leave - the very same thing they denied took place on my thread when Lilt brought it up as a perk of public service workers.

Not worth it - I thanked their posts here out of erm..courtesy or laziness, not sure :rotfl: Time to report?

AlexLK

Ali-OK wrote: »

Elections - Alex you've hit the nail on the head, it's the same spun messages that bore me rigid and it's constant. I want to see grown ups having a decent conversation not acting like hard done by children in primary school. How an earth can the biggest media platform be turned into some reality programme carp and we've to choose a country leader from that bunch? Shocking.

I'm neither earning less than the minimum wage nor live in a mansion sat on billions, so I'm guess I'm one of those 'hard working families' but I don't feel spoken to at all. But I do vote and always have, because then if my party of choice doesn't get into power, I have the right to moan :rotfl:.

We have 5 votes here on the day with additional ones for Local Mayor and PCC Council tax increase referendum. I get a postal vote so mine will be arriving early next week apparently

It is very disappointing in all honesty and unfortunately I think Cameron is particularly guilty of repeating himself over and over and over again.

The "hardworking families" line is starting to annoy me now as it's being said too many times but without any real policy being talked about. My mother is convinced there will be a Labour government and reckons she's getting too old to deal with "that Robin Hood ****". :rotfl:

Ali-OK wrote: »

Sky - It's been a god-send for various reasons over the years - an accompaniment to croup :rotfl: and a choice when Freeview didn't exist and channels on terrestrial were the great sum of...5. DS wouldn't be so history and military mad and found his forte if it wasn't for those channels. So it's staying for now at a nice reduced cost

Read some books. (You know I'm only joking really, Ali.)

Ali-OK wrote: »

Onto today then....

- Paid myself expenses but not done business banking. That's a tomorrow morning job and then I need to be in the office tomorrow afternoon as off on Monday to Kings again for the electrical tests and blood tests.

- DS is all upset from school. Stupid Lanaguges teacher (yes, she really is :mad:) accused him of not doing work in his book since 18th September last year and that earnt him a lunchtime detention but he couldn't go into school at lunchtime as it was shut due to exams. He's worried he'll get an afterschool one on Monday and I can't pick him up due to being in London.

- He's also been told he can't have his normal early Friday finish as he's fallen below the attendance percentage. Not because he's been ill, but because he's had a few medical appointments (physio, paediatrician and podiatrist). These count and I am so cross - they are discriminating again disabled children because you try getting those appointments out of school hours (which are 8.25 to 4.15pm with his transport at 7.40am and 4.30pm provided by school).

Cue phone call to school to complain and explain. Languages teacher needs sacking quite frankly. I intend to now pull him out of his remaining French and Spanish lessons for the rest of this year and he can do more English or something where a) he needs more help and b) there's an adult with a bean of intelligence. :mad:. Think school understand as she should have said something at parents eve last month! And I looked in his book...she's even marked it up to date. Stupid bint.

Talk about knowing how to undermine his self-esteem and confidence. I've also told them about my Mum and the impact that might be having on him, plus my own hospital issue on Monday. I expect some terse phone calls and probably a meeting next week.

Right, got a get a wiggle on as INOD says (sorry to pinch it)..got a lift coming to take us see Mum.

Happy weekend all

I'd be tempted to go into school and see the Headmaster.

Have a good weekend and I hope your mother is getting better.

liltdiddylilt

AlexLK wrote: »

My mother is convinced there will be a Labour government and reckons she's getting too old to deal with "that Robin Hood ****". :rotfl:

And herein lies the reason why I cannot talk to my in-laws. If I dare to mention anything even vaguely political FIL starts banging on about Thatcher and miners rights and riots. And how it is unfair he got arrested for hitting a policeman (:eek:!!!!!) during that time. And MIL just states she doesn't earn enough as a minimum wage care worker and Labours policies are great. Sure... if you don't worry where all of the MONEY is coming from supporting these so called policies.

Your mother has it spot on. Can we swap?


Ali I thought you might be too polite to say it. I do hope it has been seen. And I don't read Robin's thread but SERIOUSLY?!! She reminds me of my sisters. So caught up in lies to cause drama she contradicts herself half a dozen times a day because she can't keep up with all the lies and yet continue further drama so she just goes all **gung-ho I don't care if you think I am a liar I will shout louder and longer to make my point regardless of whether it is rubbish or not**. Looking at that my sister may be related to my in-laws.

Or an egg.:rotfl:

Lots of love to you. Sorry to hear about DS and his school. I suffered a terrible A-Level French teacher. I had actually chosen to go into further education to do English, French, German and Business... and within 6 months I quit French due to her ineptitude and rendered the degree I wanted to take (TEFL) null and void. I didn't care. I couldn't deal with her incompetence any longer.

I have just woken up as was working from 7:45am to 5pm without a break today and the same until 6pm last night so I come home, eat and sleep but Jelly woke me up complaining of being cold. Hence my late post!

Don't feel like you have to avoid my thread when things are a bit ridiculous; nice to have support from someone who knows how debilitating migraines can be. Also if I avoided your thread everytime you were under the weather Mrs.. I wouldn't know you!! xxx

Brogden

Ali-OK wrote: »

Broggers - I love your analogy, but do you not want to have your say even if no one party is exactly up your street? Isn't there one teeny-weeny bit of someone's manifesto that you think, yeah, that'd be good? Oh, ok then :rotfl:

Hi Ali

My 'no vote' problem is mainly born of concerns about human nature. Without exception all the manifestos have elements which are attractive and many would appear to make sense to me. I am not saying that our self-serving political friends are entirely thick. To vote for any party is to endorse a 'barrel load of monkeys' and I do not really want to play a (very small) part in that. Self serving IS the order of the day. Everything that is wrong with our noble leaders of industry is also wrong with our politicians.

I would go so far as to say that generally 'management' is corrupt. Good honest workers achieving the work result is great.......but as soon as somebody steps in to 'manage' that then problems begin. Human beings cannot actually 'manage' and government is management!

I know this is very cynical but if I should be sitting on a train overhearing a passionate discussion about politics, I can only think those people are a little naive or deluded or.........'peeing in the wind ':o

With my opinions on people management I should be self-employed shouldn't I? :rotfl:!!

Lilt - you do make me laugh !

Broggers x

Ali-OK

Alex - we could open BooksRUs with the library DS has :rotfl:. I've never known a child (nor especially a teenager) walk around in public whilst reading a book!

Lilt - good point well made on health :rotfl: I posted .

I hope DS will be alright on Monday, he gets very anxious and the upset is because the teacher is incompetent. She also told them to ask questions of the person next to them, then at the end of the lesson asked them each how many they had asked - DS soon sussed that anyone who had asked 3 or more all lost a credit (losses mean loss of early Friday finish), so he lied and said 1. He didn't lose a credit. How ridiculous. I've added this to my list of 'issues' with her. The sooner he can stop languages the better - max end of summer term, immediately if I can negotiate for him to move into another class/another subject. Happening on a Friday means he'll have a down weekend though

I expect I will be going into school, just I can't on Monday due to the London hospital appointment. I've some diary space middle of next week that I'm eyeing up for it

So what's new here...

- P!necone Research survey is in for £3, so I'll get that done this morning.

- Business banking - shall be hotfooting up there for 9

- Soap nuts - shall be putting the washing on once DS is awake and I can get his and using soap nuts for the first time. Shall report back later

- Played with mortgage spreadsheet and budget. I'm hopeful I can get £850 to it for May's payment, it's tight but doable on my income/budget predictions

- Usual housey stuff, office this afternoon. Not spending money

Happy sunny Saturday

in_need_of_direction

Despite being quite politically minded and having a view on most issues, I'm not even on the electoral roll as living in ni, I never wanted to be called for jury duty. Also, to register here we must provide a national insurance number and I completely disagree with that. Also, as an English stand up comedian commented recently, ni have no issues with ukip, we've had more extreme political parties for years.

Emmala

Morning Ali, just a quick hello and to wish you well for the hospital visit. Sorry to hear about your mum and DS's issues at school. I like your comment about him reading in public.....my DD is like that, she used to try and read walking along the road to school! (Not as easy now she takes her scooter!)

We're back to school here on Monday, boo! But the weather this week has been glorious so I've taken the sproglets out and about and we feel like we've been off for ages! We had chips on Bournemouth beach for lunch on Thursday and there were (mad) people in the sea.....in April!

My eldest DS is 12 today, and I'm wondering where the time has gone. Not sure which day DH will get paid on yet, or how much it will be after car tax etc but looking forward to it hugely as it's the first pay check since Sept 2013.....I'm getting ready for May and Operation Pay Back....added up the debt the other day and was rather alarmed when it came in at £15k.......ah well, we kept the roof over our head and the kids warm and well fed, it's not the end of the world (although it might feel like it at times!)

Right, have a lovely weekend. Oh, politics.....FWIW, I will vote (always do) but I honestly don't know who I'm going to vote for this time. I don't know who represents 'us'.....sigh. might flip a coin!

Enjoy the sunshine one and all xx