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Breaking Through, Travelling On

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  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 5,723 Forumite
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    Happy Weekend!
    It's finally here!
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • Karmacat
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    :j:j:j

    I'm faffing about while waiting for the bus to take me to Kew In The Country :) but part of the faffing has been writing two complaints :( one to Park Promotions, who thought that "marrows and beans" meant "two packets of carrots please", and the other to the supplier of my pretty little solar kettle has popped a plastic gizmo off the lid, and I'm a bit concerned to use it. The lid is tricky, no denying, and having seen the sunkettle website after El was chatting about it too, I'm starting to wonder if I bought from a ripoff merchant? It would cost £49 from the original supplier ... they have stockists, but online they sell worldwide themselves, of course ... hmmm. Yep. There was a reason they were cheap :( they're in the West Midlands, and I think they're selling a Chinese version :(

    Right now, I've made the notes, I'm off to Kew ... have a good day all :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat wrote: »
    :j:j:j


    Right now, I've made the notes, I'm off to Kew ... have a good day all :)

    Thank you. Have a lovely day too, KC:beer:

    Forget the complaints for now and enjoy the sun and warmth (whilst it lasts).
  • beanielou
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    Enjoy Kew :)
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  • rtandon27
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    Oh boo to the kettle lid being dodgy!


    Hope you had a wonderful day at Kew!
    4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)
    (With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)
    ...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)
    New projection - 14 YEARS 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)
    Psst...I may have started a diary!
  • Karmacat
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    I had a lovely day, thank you! Took some gorgeous photos, I may need to bring my personal blog back to life to put some of them up there.

    Shattered when I got home, of course :D what else is new, and my hayfever is making its presence known, so I *must* wash my hair and change my pillowcase today, that'll help. I try to avoid anti-histamines, with all the other faff I've got going on :p

    Nice slow day today, tho I *will* be finishing off the sealant under the sink :p thank you Gally :p and as I've finished the first column of my new Getting Things Done list, I'll be working on Next Steps :j

    Otherwise, nattering and weeding :D
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Karmacat wrote: »
    I had a lovely day, thank you! Took some gorgeous photos, I may need to bring my personal blog back to life to put some of them up there.

    Glad you had fun - you could just post the photos here instead!
    Karmacat wrote: »
    Otherwise, nattering and weeding :D

    Sounds lovely :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • Alchemilla
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    It does sound a lovely day.
  • Glad you had such a lovely day, KC:T. Sorry about the hayfever though. Never had it myself but my Mum suffered terribly at certain times of the hayfever season so I can sympathise, especially as you spend a fair bit of time in your garden. Take care of yourself:coffee:

    I was thinking of you yesterday afternoon as the heavens opened here about 1.30 and it bucketed down continuously until teatime:(. It sounds as if you escaped it:j
  • Karmacat
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    Thank you all :kisses3:

    Yikes, posting them here would mean bringing my Photobucket account back to life ... tell you what, I'll toss a coin :rotfl:

    My nattering was fun today, and I decided not to do anything physical at all - just went a walk to one of the tiny local "nature reserves" which was fun, inspecting "my " elderflower trees on the way :D

    The rain this weekend :j its been great, hasn't it! And very conveniently timed for me, you're right, CBC, thank you for thinking of me. I was fine, a few spits at one stage, but pleasant amounts of rain over Friday night and Saturday night, it was starting to be a question of when I watered the garden! Now its starting to be a question of when I cut the grass :p

    Hair is washed, under the sink still not finished, as the layers still need to be built up, but one more should do it. No draught coming from the kitchen cupboard, no humongous spiders walking along the pipe, and one fewer alleyway (once I've done the outside wall too) for a rat to get up into the loft! Which happened, a couple of years ago ...

    I'm going to pretend I'm still on holiday and have a little glass of wine Right Now :beer:
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
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