Mrs McB's countdown to adventures with chooks (and Rock Gods)

Pippilongstocking

In great excitement I have been accepted into the prof membership of the Institute of Horticulture.

Does a very happy dance.

Waiting to hear which 'level' I am to be admitted at - which is quite exciting.

All those years of soap dodging might come into their own now as its a points system. BUT sadly NOT cumulative or I might be able to stage a coup!

Happy dappy do. Whilst it might not mean much it will help me get a job and I get some extra letters after my name where it normally says 'plant geek'.

Pippilongstocking

One credit card under £3K, the other just dipped under £2K

woo hoo.

(ETA - I have not robbed a bank - the dd's just came off that's all and I paid a wee sneaky bit extra as I heard my wages will be c£300 from learning factory to so its been transferred over a bit early to lift my spirits)

Tea bubbling away - pasta and pork meatballs. Just lobbed some porrige in the meatballs to thicken the sauce - where would we be without mse tips eh?

Ellidee

Congrats Pippi on becoming a Prof ! :T :j

Nearly put 'Pro' but that would be a different er 'calling' entirely :rotfl:

beanielou

Great news on the letters after your name & the CC's dipping so low

Pippilongstocking

Ellidee wrote: »

Congrats Pippi on becoming a Prof ! :T :j

Nearly put 'Pro' but that would be a different er 'calling' entirely :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: if the spade fits and all that

Prof = professional not an actual professor although I'm am nicknamed after a rather fine wooden bookend

beanielou wrote: »

Great news on the letters after your name & the CC's dipping so low

Credit card bashing is fun isn't it better with chums like you guys to spurn us on, so thank you all I greatly appreciate the space to do this in.

Don't tell aunty mcB-Wik - she teases me enough about the combos of letters I can put - mostly they spell greeny gardening Twit

Fanks

I'm trying to get Into their natinal hort mentoring programme (them finding some poor soul to convince into mentoring me not the other way about, :eek: imagine me mentoring someone they'd die of boredom) :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

And prof membership is free for six months ATM so that's also a bonus. And it just so happens I'm looking for a job, funny that.

Sneaky, moi, never - active participation in life I say :T

Aff oot in a bit miles expensed as its a work thing :T

Have a good un!

Greying_Pilgrim

Yay to continued debt slaughtering :T:j Fabulous stuff

Greying

rtandon27

:j:j:j
Yeah to C/C slashing & to more letters after your name!!!!!
:j:j:j
That 28% is mighty impressive!

Pippilongstocking

rtandon27 wrote: »

:j:j:j
Yeah to C/C slashing & to more letters after your name!!!!!
:j:j:j
That 28% is mighty impressive!

I treated myself to a fish finger sandwich to celebrate

And some roquefort found in the garage freezer what a haul..............

Its more the focus of where the wages end up rather than me being super fast paying. Now I've got everything on my new spreadsheet I'm having to use it like a spending diary.

And Greying thanks.

I'll apologise for sharing the work related news, as I've only been doing horticulture since I became a single parent, (coughs, a few years now right enough) I'm so chuffed to have been accepted among 'proper' gardeners.

they will yet find me out to be a fraud and I'll be out on my ear. But until then I'll read and read again the journal that came with the letter

No other payments today

a spendy day, but all work aside a 20p bag of lettuce and a 9p cucumber.

:A Thanks chaps you're all inspiring!

Pippilongstocking

Today is our xmas dinner

I'm madly being an elf and sorting out the final bits of thank you's etc.

Hope you're all good.

I need petrol (might be the last petrol of the year ) and not much else as far as I'm aware. Possibly some work spends which I have to list carefully as they'll be alot and I'm also paying for the meal today (and claiming it back good grief if it were up to me we'd be eating a giant sandwich).

So shouldn't be any spends for me, aside petrol, just work related which will be a bit hefty.

Famous last words eh?

EssexHebridean

Splendid news on the memberships of the national plant geeks association - and as for someone you mentored being dead from boredom - ummm, NO - would I have sat and watched an entire gardening programme the other night without your influence? I think not! :T

We have one car which was dieselificated last night - the other will probably get a splosh of it next week although as I still have just under half a tank of last months my "usual" £50 in there might not be required in full. Hmmm. The other one will have to have another tank yet due to Devonian travelling over New Year - 250 miles each way so that's a tankful by anyones reckoning. Bah to expensive car-juice.

Roquefort sounds tasty - we started a lump of Cooleney (? sp) last night - part of the Food Show haul - think it cost us £1. Utterly delicious!