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2 x Warburtons Medium Sliced White Bread (800g) £2.00 £2.90
1 x Candyland Flumps Mallow Twists (12g) £0.10 £0.10
6 x Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Breakfast Bars Apple (6x37g) £13.08 £6.00
The extent of my stuff up
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APG was £7.08, can't work out how much I lost but think it's about a quid
Historic Debt August 2009 = £63,600 10th March 2017 = £0 100% paid all gone!
Mortgage started June 2015 = £170,000 January 2022 = £134,000
Saving for Xmas 2022= . . Amazon £55
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My dinner plans are - chicken breasts with davidstow cheddar & breadcrumb gratin served with spinach and brown mushrooms' potato wedges in a rosemary herb dressing and roasted balsamic vegetables, followed by a raspberry panna cotta.
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Life is not about learning to avoid the storms - it's about learning to dance in the rain.0 -
2 x Warburtons Medium Sliced White Bread (800g) £2.00 £2.90
1 x Candyland Flumps Mallow Twists (12g) £0.10 £0.10
6 x Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Breakfast Bars Apple (6x37g) £13.08 £6.00
The extent of my stuff up
(snipped off the bits that are n/a)
APG was £7.09, can't work out how much I lost but think it's about a quid
Oh well we fall in these traps sometimes:o could have been worse if it was something else:eek:Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:0 -
Mrs_stinkface wrote: »My dinner plans are - chicken breasts with davidstow cheddar & breadcrumb gratin served with spinach and brown mushrooms' potato wedges in a rosemary herb dressing and roasted balsamic vegetables, followed by a raspberry panna cotta.
I love m + s
You posh booga you:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:0 -
zippydooda wrote: »just wanted to say, for a relative newbee your posts are great. you highlighted the important bits. :beer:
but please tell me tell us your results of the raisin bakes. as I was well chuffed to expand patty's find to these.
oh I see the shape glitch now, but too drunk to work out the maths.
so to get this done for you just put in a random aau and he will find it and post results:D
remember aau and he will find your post.
he does as I do and search your own name, and variants
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I actually haven 't done that for ages. I'm catching uo and just got to this post
See you all on the other side of my catchup :wave:Apparently, everybody knows that the bird is [strike]the word[/strike] a moorhen0 -
My excuse is I am too old and life was simpler back

When I worked in Off Licence I found a bag with cubes of stinky brown stuff in. I didn't know what it was and I was in my thirties then
Left a note for manageress telling her I had found it and thrown it in the bin. She told me it was some drug forgot now what she said. 0 -
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Enterprise_1701C wrote: »I think I would have let him comment to embarrass the bloke out of wearing a onesie :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: My son has taken to wearing one, but not in my presence!!
You've done 5 out of 69 naughty things.
You don’t have a single bad bone in your body! You are as innocent as this puppy taking a sweet poop on a sunny Sunday morning.
They simply did not include the things I used to get up to with my mates :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I have been using them for years - is there something you want help with?
Did it all. But it was all that linking to your phone. Then getting codes etc. and so many passwords.grocery challenge 9.86/600 -
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