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Building The Burrow!

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  • FamilyLife
    FamilyLife Posts: 47 Forumite
    PM!

    I have made a return to MSE and read rough the last few months of your diary- you have been busy! Hope the move is going well. It is ridiculously hot so I hope you're taking it easy and hydrating!

    Having read through your diary I now have my eye on a Kipling bag and an M&S tea dress! So, you know, the MFW endeavors are going to plan :rotfl:

    FL xx
    2014 OPs £113.28
    Mortgage Balance £116986
  • Pearla*Merle
    Pearla*Merle Posts: 1,611 Forumite
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    Habibiboo wrote: »
    :wave:

    Glad you're on the mend P*M but sorry about your friends, hopefully they will also be heading towards recovery soon.

    Sounds like you're steaming ahead with the packing ... do you have an actual moving date and start date for Mr. P*M yet? No clashes with Kate Bush?
    Thank you, Hbbb. :) We're waiting to hear more this week, hopefully the news will be as good as it can be.

    We do indeed have dates - moving this weekend and Mr M starts on Monday! :D That's all come up very suddenly(!) Can't wait. Almost all packed, just a couple of things to wind up and get sorted in the next couple of days but Attitude of Serenity continues and I'm quite enjoying this easy-going way of doing things (last few house moves were all a bit frantic :o).

    Kate Bush - you know Mr M & I had a deal where I would pay for the tickets and he would pay for travel & a bed for the night - the lucky man has got off with that scot free! What a devious and over-complicated plan to move us down there just in time for it. :rotfl: Only a month to go until I see her :j
    a penny picker upper. MFW approx 78% to go | FIRE 3 years worth (30% savings rate: now aiming for 40%!) | Normality is a paved road; it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it | Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible | The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library
  • Pearla*Merle
    Pearla*Merle Posts: 1,611 Forumite
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    FamilyLife wrote: »
    PM!

    I have made a return to MSE and read rough the last few months of your diary- you have been busy! Hope the move is going well. It is ridiculously hot so I hope you're taking it easy and hydrating!

    Having read through your diary I now have my eye on a Kipling bag and an M&S tea dress! So, you know, the MFW endeavors are going to plan :rotfl:

    FL xx
    Hello FL! Lovely to see you back :D I hope all is going well. I must catch up with you soon - I was starting to make headway with catching up with everyone and then packing up the house got in the way, can't wait til it's all done & dusted so I can get back into the swing of things again. :)

    Lol on the new shopping list. ;) You're lucky that I managed to resist temptation on a multitude of other things, otherwise you may have found it to be a lot longer. :rotfl:

    PS. The weather is quite mad, isn't it? I literally can't remember when we had our last non-sunny and hot day. We're fair melting in this south facing apartment, I'm looking forward to living somewhere with a dual aspect - a through draft, heaven!
    a penny picker upper. MFW approx 78% to go | FIRE 3 years worth (30% savings rate: now aiming for 40%!) | Normality is a paved road; it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it | Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible | The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library
  • Pearla*Merle
    Pearla*Merle Posts: 1,611 Forumite
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    All my posts seem to start 'not much to report really!' and then waffle on for ages. :think:

    So, not much to report really. 6p into the kittybank, and £1 rolled under the sofa that Mr M said I could have when it resurfaces. :rotfl:

    General spending is non-existent except for the services of some buses and trains. Various savings pots on hold until further notice (alas, alas!). I'm not sure how much of a chance I'll have to apply for more jobs before we leave, but I'll see what I can do.

    I've just realised we'll be without internet until Who Knows When so I'll have to get organised and work out how I can apply for stuff if I only have my iPad to hand. I think my phone contract allows for tethering - must check.

    A few random batch-cooked meals that I never got round to eating have been taken out of the freezer so I can rescue the plastic tubs they're in. I'm not throwing away any of my precious plastic tubs. :rotfl:

    Have discovered caterpillars in my mini herb garden - within days they'd stripped it bare. :eek: At least someone got to eat all my nice herbs, I'd been wondering what to do with them as I don't think the pot will fit on our new balcony so that solves one problem. :rotfl:

    Better meander, luncheon calls...
    a penny picker upper. MFW approx 78% to go | FIRE 3 years worth (30% savings rate: now aiming for 40%!) | Normality is a paved road; it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it | Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible | The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library
  • FamilyLife
    FamilyLife Posts: 47 Forumite
    At least we know you can grow tasty herbs!
    2014 OPs £113.28
    Mortgage Balance £116986
  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,806 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Rampant Recycler Hung up my suit!
    Good luck for to move:)
    Early retired - 18th December 2014
    If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
  • newgirly
    newgirly Posts: 9,348 Forumite
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    Hi pearla wishing you all the best with the move :D
    MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁
  • Habibiboo
    Habibiboo Posts: 1,582 Forumite
    :T

    Will be thinking of you at the weekend and best of luck for Mr. P*M on Monday. An exciting new chapter begins ...
    Stash busting 2014 45 / 60 (balls of yarn)!
    2014 Sealed Pot #2136 ?/£500
    House: Decluttering 322 / 365
    Original mortgage [STRIKE]£149,000[/STRIKE][STRIKE]£117,750[/STRIKE];[STRIKE]£112,500[/STRIKE] MFW 2014#69 GOAL 1: [STRIKE]£109 K April[/STRIKE] ;) GOAL 2: [STRIKE]£103 K by Sept[/STRIKE] ;) GOAL 3: < £100k by end of 2014 MF goal: Nov 2020 - 4 years early
  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,241 Forumite
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    Thinking of you both. Hope the move and job start go smoothly.
    NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!
  • mouche
    mouche Posts: 902 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hope your move is going smoothly PM and that you find a way to get online soon and [STRIKE]update us with your adventures[/STRIKE] apply for jobs and do important stuff.
    Mortgage (original/ current):193,000 (23/09/11)/ £102,500 (07/11/2019)
    2019 Challenges: Make £300 a month: £9.71/£300 (January)
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