Was Mortgage Free until 52!!!

A_Frayed_Knot

Hi SSS

Thanks for asking, and No, I'm not sure at all, the (I think) only problem is it "matured" on my oap (aghhhh)  birthday (before they moved the goal posts)  and so will pay out, and that just happened to be yesterday.

And I'm sure they told me if I wanted to defer payment then it would need to be a year.

A_Frayed_Knot

Lovely morning here, so 1st wash batch done, and onto 2nd.

Thinking later on will be a tidy up of the garden, trying to keep busy and stay away from shops till Monday, even though I'm out of bread, so just going to have wraps for lunch.

Received a delivery of lovely m&s flowers yesterday, so felt like my birthday all over again  anyone for C0stko cake ?

Its huge and no one to share it with (DB actually took a large chunk away with him, whilst delivering it ) . . .  I'm working my way through the rest of it - no bother 

Slightly clouding over here, so watching out for change in weather.

Keep safe.

A_Frayed_Knot

Received shocking news tonight, that one of my young colleagues who went off sick with 2 of the symptoms,has now been admitted and on a ventilator.  

We are all hoping she will be OK.Makes work a very scary place to be, and have been reminded that I am in fact a possible "vulnerable" person, with my constant extremely high BP.  

Going to phone GP in the morning, just to find out whether I should in actual fact be going in to work at the end of the week, but sure I'm just panicking a bit with this news, will sleep on it tonight,

Moneyfordreams

The advice to our colleagues is you have to do what's right for you. there are lots of scary incidences around. Keep yourself safe.   

A_Frayed_Knot

I need to lay off the reading about corona for a while, as the more I read into who is in a vulnerable position,

the more I doubt I should be going back into work, Didn't phone gp as thought they would be busy enough,

I will turn up and see what state of play is.

No further update regarding colleague, hopefully, she's rallying round this virus.

Post seems to be filtering through no problem, so well done PO, however no papers arrived yet.

Shocked to read folk are withdrawing all their money from the banks, nobody heard of contactless.  Lol.

What a difference a day makes . . .

Stay safe everyone.

bexster1975

Hi AFK

Sorry I have been MIA recently. Still struggling with the forum. I am on my laptop at the moment, so lets see how that goes. Sorry to hear about your colleague, the whole situation is a nightmare. No idea why people are withdrawing all their money from banks, its getting hard to find anywhere that will take cash in stores!  Post seems to be getting here too for now. I am trying just to shop local, so combining exercise with shopping as far as possible. 

Stay well 
Bexster 

A_Frayed_Knot

Hi Bexster, 

good to hear from you and that you are safe and well.  

Colleague still in Icu,  they tried her off ventilator, but had to go back on it.

Doing the same as you, merging my daily exercise with my essential shopping trips.

Companies have been very generous handing in freebies to work most days, not that I have taken any, only being there for 2 days a week now.

Local shops here prefer contactless payment and work will not accept cash anywhere, and I now have my bus pass (Oh, just tried to reduce the size of print there, and discovered, can no longer do that) !!! so no money needed there either.

Work is very strange, with security at the door, only allowing staff in the main door. 

We are a bit behind up here, so have not actually hit the peak yet, but can see the huge increase in people presenting with the symptoms, and staff are being risk assessed, with the option of being at home for 12 weeks if you have an underlying condition.

Hope your business isn't too effected by all this, but main aim is to stay healthy during all of this.

So Stay safe. 

bexster1975

Hi AFK
Business has been badly affected by this, however I have been able to move some work to online which will keep me ticking over for as long as it takes to recover. I am also spending lots of time developing more content which I should have been doing long ago, so no excuse now. I am also hoping that HMRC will cough up some cash in June ( JUNE!!) based on my tax return for last year, so I am very fortunate compared to many others. In addition, what is there to spend money on recreationally at the moment ( very little!!) I am sticking to a routine as far as possible, and currently I am sat outside ( admittedly freezing my ar$€ off until the sun moves around this side) working on a couple of different courses. Everything is weird at the moment, a main reason I am avoiding the large supermarkets. Hope work remains safe for you to go to.

Bexster 

A_Frayed_Knot

Sorry to hear that, I have taken a good few large hits as well, I was so close, and now it is yet so far   if I ever get it,however I'm thankful I have my health for now.  

Work has almost closed down in prep for what has to come so we are officially a  "hot" area - this is what happens when they decided to combine several sitesinto one, otherwise they could have still had several sites working as "normal"

Have just boiled my work clothes and just about to put out to dry, cold wind but sun trying to break through.

Got an email from caravan site saying there would be no rates this year - normally payable in NOV !!! and that is on top of site fees. however that is only a 1/10th of the site fees, and we cannot use it for at least 3 months, so I'm thinking we should be due a whole lot more of a refund. (In a perfect world).

bexster1975

Sorry you are taking a hit too. I believe I have already had the dreaded virus. Unpleasant, but not necessary to go to hospital. Problem is, no idea whether I am now immune, or even still infectious ( it was now three weeks ago I was ill). We know so little about this new virus. Sun has vanished behind clouds for now. I too am grateful for my health. Not having a mortgage is already a huge advantage at this time. Has your birthday been and gone? I ask as you said you have your bus pass now.

Hope your uniform dries nicely

Bexster