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PennysIntoPounds Posts: 6,577 Forumite

25 January at 10:23PM

Oh I forgot to say, how disgraceful! Thanks for the reminder @doingitanyway and Happy Burns Night @beanielou and all our Scottish lads and lassies 🍻

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1

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milann Posts: 11,766 Forumite

26 January at 6:30PM

Hope having the staples out was ok and that there weren’t too many.
Pleased that your mum is making a nice recovery.
I was invited to a Burns night supper but sorry to say that I declined. I’m not a lover of haggis.I can manage a small slice on a breakfast but find it a tad too peppery. The friends that went last year said it was a great event with somebody calling out lots of dance moves for reels etc, some of which were very fast and lots of folk hysterically falling in heaps….maybe after a wee dram 😂😂 I did however have tattles and neeps with my tea 👍

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beanielou Posts: 99,621 Ambassador

26 January at 7:19PM

Staples out. Was a tad nippy. Now feeling a bit yucky.
Very tired.
The burns supper we are going to is dry. Sure it will be ok.

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***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
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doingitanyway Posts: 10,925 Forumite

27 January at 11:00AM

Glad the staples are out. Take it easy.

If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

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beanielou Posts: 99,621 Ambassador

27 January at 11:26AM

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856001#Comment_81856001

Thank you 🤗

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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
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beanielou Posts: 99,621 Ambassador

27 January at 2:11PM

Gentler physio today but still much needed.
The weather here is absolutely atrocious.

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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.
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milann Posts: 11,766 Forumite

27 January at 2:33PM

Take care in the horrible weather. Enjoy the Burns celebration….will your mum manage to go?

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beanielou Posts: 99,621 Ambassador

27 January at 4:05PM

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856452#Comment_81856452

Thanks. Weather is wild.
Yes, my mum is going.

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Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.
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jwil Posts: 23,487 Forumite

27 January at 5:38PM

Glad the staples are out, and enjoy your Burns supper!

"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee

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beanielou Posts: 99,621 Ambassador

27 January at 6:50PM

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856924#Comment_81856924

Thanks. Haven’t been to one in years!

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Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.
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