Hope is not an Effective Financial Strategy

Suffolk_lass

Ugh vomit :eek: - second only to diarrhoea in the ghastly children clear-up list. I hope she (and you) are OK and have a good restful weekend. Well done for sorting the WM!

The boiler is refusing to fire on heating and this week the fuse blew, then the pressure went up dangerously high - never mind bleeding the rads, I was tapping off water for ages from the radiator on the brick floor (7.5 pints!). 24 hours on it has stabilised but no heating still. I can make the thermostat in the sitting room call the device in the boiler cupboard and hear the boiler click but it just does not fire. Maybe a valve has gone. The neighbour opposite who acts as our emergency consultant installed it and I am off to ask him when I see him outside this weekend, and my other neighbour gave me a boiler service recommendation, In the meantime electric oil filled rads and woodturning stove are very wonderful things!

Sorry to hijack!

shangaijimmy

Hijack away, it gives people something interesting to read!

Today is going really well. Started with a £1 TT to boost the weeks pot. Followed up with a 4.25 mile plod (I can't use the words run or jog as the wind was so strong, plodding was all i could muster - no matter where i go the wind always seems to be against me), and then a 3 mile dog walk.

Mrs SJ has gone to her mums with the tribe of children for the afternoon so i did the honourable thing and opted to stay at home and supervise the new washing machine pump...just in case...

So all that's left is to snooze to sport, and bask in the peace and quiet!

Busy_Mee1

Plodding is good. Enjoy your peace and a snooze

shangaijimmy

Had a busy Sunday hosting an 80th birthday party at our house, so by the time they'd all left at 8 we then started the mini tidy whilst getting kids stuff prepped for school for Monday, and then a dog walk. I reckon it was 10.30 before we sat down.

So felt decidedly jaded starting my 11hr Monday in work, and then the lurgy that i have avoided despite all around me having in since November has finally got me! Awake this morning since 5 with a niggly cough so gave up at 5.30am, grrr! Luckily I topped up my asthma inhalers supply last week so for once I can claim that I am being sensible. I have a horrid 2hr meeting this morning as well when all i want to do is snooze on the couch to the tennis. Ah well.

Nothing else to report. Money wise I've been TTing everyday and our account looks ok following Mrs SJ pay on Friday. Once i get mine on 25th we'll be in good shape again and the Christmas and Jan birthday splurge months will be behind us... Just our DS1, DD and sister in law birthdays left for Jan!!

Karmacat

Sorry to hear you've become lurgified, SJ - hope you can get some rest soon.

shangaijimmy

Thanks Karma. Only partially lurgified at this stage I'm happy to report. A few paracetamol and I'm soldiering through... As an asthma sufferer (of the brown inhaler type) I'm always wary of whether it hits my chest though.

Well we are in the mid month nothing financial happening phase. 36p TT this morning and thats all I have to report!

9 days to payday...
10 days to paying out day...
15 days to overpayment day...

shangaijimmy

NSD today which is lovely.

11hrs in work and paracetamol is all that gets me through. 3hrs later the head ache and sore throat return and then i have an hours difficult wait. Strangely the only time i felt mildly human was when i was out running (4.5miles at lunch) and for about an hour afterwards.

Lovely tea from Mrs SJ when i got home, and am now perusing diaries and waiting for next dosage before bed. Day off tomorrow thankfully.

CathT

Hope you're feeling 100% soon jimmy, life's busy enough isn't it without being unwell. We're on the payday countdown too, trying to be super frugal so I can overpay our remaining budget. Am sure the norm would be to have a treat but that won't clear the mortgage!

shangaijimmy

CathT wrote: »

Hope you're feeling 100% soon jimmy, life's busy enough isn't it without being unwell. We're on the payday countdown too, trying to be super frugal so I can overpay our remaining budget. Am sure the norm would be to have a treat but that won't clear the mortgage!

I always thought that Overpaying the mortgage was a "treat"...!

Suffolk_lass

shangaijimmy wrote: »

Thanks Karma. Only partially lurgified at this stage I'm happy to report. A few paracetamol and I'm soldiering through... As an asthma sufferer (of the brown inhaler type) I'm always wary of whether it hits my chest though.

Well we are in the mid month nothing financial happening phase. 36p TT this morning and thats all I have to report!

9 days to payday...
10 days to paying out day...
15 days to overpayment day...

Me too! Next Friday is DH's pay-day. Mine (my last full month) is the last working day. And now I have stopped work does it mean I can't look forward to a day off tomorrow?