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Hope all is well. Long, Long emails and plumbers sound challenging. Take care.15/5/12 Paid off Mortgage 1 (£220k) Bought Dream House:www: Dec 13 - Mortage 2 -£116,508. 15/7/18 Mortgage Free Again :j
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Well done for sending that email and ringing those plumbers KC, so easy to put this stuff off!
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Absolutely! And you know what, if he wants me to look after the website, he can pay me - he always paid his wife to do the decorating at their house, he can pay me for website work
even though I feel !!!!!y saying it,
It's a shame a long friendship has ended up like that. Your ex-friend seems to have killed 2 long-term friendships.he *does* in fact pay her for normal stuff like that.
How much does she get when she puts the nurse uniform on..?"Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0 -
Earthgirl, Cheery, thanks

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I know what you mean, about paying for something that I'd previously have given through friendship, but I was thinking about it after I wrote it, and since he mediates all his relationships through money, it *might* actually save our friendship. If I do it
which is a little bit unlikely 
As for the nurse's uniform
she left him, y'know
I don't think he was paying her enough for that
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...As for the nurse's uniform
she left him, y'know
I don't think he was paying her enough for that
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Is there actually an amount that would cover it?:D4 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)Original Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Dec 2039 (reduced by 21 months)0 -
Ooh, there's a question
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So, ta-da today
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- phoned all 3 remaining plumbers again, one is coming round after 3pm today :j
- phoned client re time alteration on Monday (not spacetime, just appointment
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- some scanning-tidying is done
- am backing up the computer
- dishwasher has run through - thats quite a job at the moment
Still have to write out 3 cards, and do some gardening at the front, or at least sweeping up finally after the storms. Things are starting to get back under control, in a good way :j2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
Go you!
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Thanks for the tea and cake - needed that haha!
Well done on getting the plumber sorted - hope it doesn't turn out to be too expensive.
MCIMortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
OP's to Date £8500
Renovation Fund:£511.39;
Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)0 -
Hello folks

I've abandoned writing the cards for today, to be honest - but thats because I almost filled a black binbag with detritus from a third of the paving at the front - builders debris, leylandii clippings, and moss that birds pick from the roof and then let fall :rotfl: seriously :rotfl:
Plumber hasn't turned up yet, and he's still well within the time he said he'd call.
Things *are* getting back into order a little, especially if the drain gets mended today. So next week, I'm going to go back to my schedule of writing four blog posts a month, and posting them. Looking at my diary next week, it looks do-able.
It's the weekend now though - and I have a chance of getting out and enjoying it :j2023: the year I get to buy a car0
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