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f0xh0les

Today I scored a £10 ticket to see SIX in January. It is limited view seat but I am delighted. They went on sale at 12.00 and I remembered at 2.30. The only £10 ticket left for any of the performances. It is in the diary! Bargain.

Did a foodshop, also spent £8 on Lupins and Dianthus . They have been planted out already.

I have lost 6lbs since this time last week, I have picked up my year's worth of HRT 3 weeks before the annual prescription form ends, so 2 years for the price of one. Decent long dates on these ones.

Folded 3 baskets of laundry and returned it to the owners, I have seen all 4 of my progeny before 2pm.

Scored a Leedle box so for £2 there is a whole 🍉 one 🥭, one grapefruit, 10 🍊 , 3 🍋, 8 🥔, 2 🧅, 3 🥑, 20 🍓, a white cabbage, 4 🍎, one lettuce, a whole heap of radishes, and a garlic bulb. Woo hoo!

Bought celery, 🍅 and 🥒 and some frozen 🥦 for soup.

Very good day.

Viking_mfw

Wow! That's a score!

f0xh0les

Down to £12 in the bank account. Child benefit comes in tomorrow so I am fine.

We have been without phone, broadband, and TV for 4 whole days. There is a fault somewhere outside the house affecting the area. It is very annoying. We have 2 tvs on the roof aerial, so my bedroom and the kitchen still have entertainment. The weather forecast is for West Midlands though, not East Midlands -which is fine if you live in Hereford ! Not so much use in LE.

greent

We have similar weather issues in our house - downstairs (V1rg1n tv) we get SW news and weather. In my bedroom (aerial) we get WMid news and weather! 😁 Gloucester is (just!) In the SW, so I mich prefer the downstairs versions 😄

f0xh0les

Deep in Exam season in our house. Hence my neglect of this stuff.

DS3 is half way through his T Level assessments in Business Management and Administration and DS4's GCSEs start on the last day (next Monday) of DS3s exams. They are very chill (still) about the whole thing. I am still a mess.

PB Fairy granted me £350 (thank you PB Fairy) and I managed to finish last month with an excess balance, so I filled up my little car with petrol ouch! £60 for my little old Micr4, it is now more expensive to fill up than it was under C0vidtimes. I have sacked off all my R/S accounts. It is not worth losing £250 a month for 12 months for £60 interest. I need to be able to access that money, not lock it away, so at my squirrelliest I was locking away £750+ a month, and now that can be shunted to the BUILD FUND which is currently sitting at £22k.

I am going to be shunting money left over at the end of the month from now on, rather than shunting money to savings at the start of the month. I don't have the head space for it.

July and September are filling up nicely with work. May, June and August are woeful. I might have to go and work the music festival circuit in those months. I am feeling constrained by exams and feeling the need to make sure they are all alright, not stressed, relaxed, etc.

Irish Passport is currently at day 14 of 'processing' which means they are probably trying to contact my witness. I hope they send my documents back soon. There is a whole community of people on B00kFace waiting for their passports - we are all tracking our statuses, and it is over running the time stated on the application page by a couple of weeks. Never mind, it will all be worth it. Summer is coming.

f0xh0les

Half way through the weekend. I have done 2 loads of laundry and line dried them, and then dyed two nice shaped pairs of shorts - one knee length pair one calf length pair - black instead of the original colour.

I had planned to go to a local craft fair this morning, I stupidly offered to buy DH coffee and cake, so he said he wanted to come too, but then got a notification he had a parcel coming. So we waited, and another notification came that he had another parcel coming, so we waited, the first parcel came, the second parcel came, but it was not the one he had had the notification for, so again we waited, a third parcel came, nope, not that one either, eventually, at 3pm the 'second' parcel came, it was not worth going out as the cafe at the arts centre would not have had much left, so it was hummus and salad and pickles and crackers for lunch, and I baked half an apple strudel from the mysterious depths of the freezer. Zero £s spent today. I tried, honestly I did.

Last night I finished a book set in Greece just before the 1st World War about the poisoning of a cat in the (exiled) Ottoman Emperor's Harem(????? Hmmm). It is in the charity shop bag. Enough said.. I will start another one tonight.

Tomorrow's tasks will include baking another loaf of sourdough, baking some buns for lunch boxes, baking some potatoes ( at the same time as the sourdough) washing the kitchen floors, and stripping the middle floor beds and laundering them. After coffee, politics, and the rest of the strudel for breakfast.

f0xh0les

Morning!

Nearly the end of May already, the heatwave continues, the sourdough starter is firmly in the fridge. It is taking less than 90 minutes from feeding, to it being double the size and ready to use. One loaf baked, another slowly proving in the fridge for baking this afternoon, and another ready to go tomorrow morning.

DS3 has another 2 weeks until he finishes his 210 hours of unpaid work placement. Then he is free for summer, so I am encouraging him to apply for all the bar staff jobs at local festivals and national music festivals. He might as well get fed, paid, and hear some decent music before he finds out his results.

DS1 still has not heard back from the NHS. Not sure the flippin job even exists. I have told him to get back on with his job search. This one cannot be relied on, if it happens, good. If not, he has a backup.

DS2 is still doing the bare minimum.

Dr FH is back from his congregation in small town Canada. Very grumpy - no decent coffee in Canada (???) limited food options (???) it seems the only thing his hotel could offer him was fruit salad (????) luckily his life was saved by finding a package of vegan cookies and a pot noodle - keeping it classy! Glad to have him back though.

Pension currently growing at 17%

S&S ISA experiment at 17.72%

f0xh0les

Today I am 152 (give or take a century) for the first time, not a lot will be happening, I have received candles, mint chocolate, and a pin badge. Hooray!

DH is off to the BBC to do a recording thing - 48 hours notice. It all raises his profile and they pay his expenses, so it will be down and up for him today by train. Hence limited celebrations and no meal out.

He has a cracked windscreen due to a flying stone flung up by an oncoming driver, which he did not think did any damage, but upon returning to his car after 72 hours camping - a whopping great crack had appeared. He thought it would be an easy job to get it replaced through his insurance, but they have given him a date in 2 weeks. So his car sits outside the house until it is fixed. It got him home safely, which is the main thing.

Nothing new has occurred. I have no news. Sorry. GCSEs have finally ended - last day was Physics in the morning and Further Maths in the afternoon - he said FM was a disaster, nothing he had revised came up. He did his best.

DS3 did 5 days work as Traffic Management (car parking) at D0wnL0ad festival, camping, he came home like an embarrassed racoon, sunburn in wide bands. He did not enjoy it, but recognised that if he wanted to earn $$$ quickly then it was an easy way to earn £700-£800 paid fortnightly. They do a lot of work in Manchester, which is where he wants to study. He did one 14 hour long shift, which I think was a massive wake up call.

He is starting to realize there are people out there who do carp jobs because they have to, not as a choice for fun money, which is nice to see, but I am still worried he will end up a job-snob like some of the other people in this house.

teapot2

Happy 152nd {-100} birthday, hopefully you might get a meal out or some celebrations when DH returns?

🎂 🎉☕🎈🕯️

beanielou

Happy birthday 🎂