The Big Adventure

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Hooray, at last ! I've got to the £40 pay out point on One Poll :j

Congratulations!

I'm not posting as much at present, as I'm taking a step back from MSE for a while. I was finding I was spending a lot of time with my head bent over the screen reading MSE, and missing things that were going on around me.


But I will be looking in from time to time, so I am still here!

Good to hear you'll pop in - I can understand stepping back a bit, you've achieved the goals - a funded retirement, and the immediate post-retirement sort out - there *does* come a point when its right to step back. I did myself after I was debt free - then I realised that a funded retirement was missing, so had to step forward again sharpish :rotfl:

Enjoy the extra time, Goldie :A

misscousinitt

Glad you will be popping in from time to time - I enjoy your diary!

All the best.

MCI

Watty1

Glad you will still be around. I'd miss you

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Good to hear you'll pop in - I can understand stepping back a bit, you've achieved the goals - a funded retirement, and the immediate post-retirement sort out - there *does* come a point when its right to step back.

That's exactly it, I've done the sorting out, and now I need to live it!

misscousinitt wrote: »

Glad you will be popping in from time to time - I enjoy your diary!

All the best.

MCI

Thank you
I enjoy writing it as well

Watty1 wrote: »

Glad you will still be around. I'd miss you

Thank you, that's a lovely thing to say :grouphug:
I'd miss everybody if I suddenly disappeared into the ether. I've been following everybody's journeys for the last year or so, and you do get involved - I want to see everyone's stories to the end - whether it's MF, retirement, FI, or FIRE, and all that happens inbetween

Karmacat

Watty1 wrote: »

Glad you will still be around. I'd miss you

Me too!

Good to know you're living the life tho :j

gallygirl

Can I eighth what everyone else is saying - don't abandon us

Beckyy

Glad to hear you'll still be popping in.

I hope you enjoyed your posh muesli

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Hello,

Yes, me too, I can't do without your inspiration!

Squirrel x

Goldiegirl

Here I am !

There's no way I'm going to abandon ship - I'd miss everyone far too much.

My posh muesli was lovely, and as I also had a £1 off voucher, I bought a box. So now I choose between the muesli, weetabix, and porridge. Breakfast is one of my favourite meals these days.

We've had our new fence done at the bottom of the garden. He's done a very good job. I know I said that we probably wouldn't choose him again, as there was always a drama about rearranging the days. But he's redeemed himself, as he worked all through Thursday, which was a wet, miserable day.

Since then, we've been working in the garden, reseeding our rather tired lawn, and tidying up the borders etc. Next week, we intend buying our flowers, so so we are hoping for a run of good weather, so we can sit outside on a regular basis.

We had our first Meerkat movie on Wednesday, when we saw the new Spooks film. We also intend going to see the Queen's Big Night Out (or whatever it's called), in the next week or so.

I mentioned a little while ago that I had requested my dad's army records. To my surprise, the records arrived last week, much faster than I was expecting.

They confirmed a lot of information that my dad had told me, and it was interesting to find out the exact dates of all the events.

My dad was evacuated from France on 13th June 1940, two weeks after Dunkirk. But it's not clear where he was evacuated from. Two of the regiments platoons were at the surrender of St Valery en Caux on 12th June, so it is possible he escaped from there. The rest of his regiment were evacuated from Le Havre on 12th June, so he wasn't with that group. I may write to the regimental museum to see if they can shed any light on it.

Also, there was information that was REALLY surprising. The next time there's free access on Ancestry, I will need to check something out, before I want to say more!

Family history is endlessly interesting.

Watty1

How fascinating. So you can request army records? Interesting?


As I have no idea who my father is I've always thought tracing ones past fascinating but not relevant to me.