Paid off the £31,000! BUT - still scrimping!

Seasidegal58

Thanks SA. Cushion is fab!:)

milann

It sounds as if you’ve had a lovely time at dds.
Safe journey home.

Seasidegal58

Thanks milann! You look after that tooth!:)

beanielou

Happy new cushion to you

Seasidegal58

Ta beanie!:D

doingitanyway

I think an 'at home' day after a holiday is essential

Munchin

I agree, everyone needs an ‘at home’ day just to get everything sorted

brizzlegirl

Hope alls good SSG...and that you have a good week off over Christmas

Xx

Seasidegal58

Thank you all!:)

The train journey back into London went well on Tuesday. However, I decided to get a taxi from Kings X to my London commute station as my suitcase was heavier than usual and I didn't fancy dragging it up and down the various stairwells on the underground. The weather was wet and very cold and the queue at the taxi rank was longer than normal. Once I got in the taxi the journey wasn't too bad until we hit the City then the traffic became absolutely gridlocked. The taxi driver tried various routes but it still took forever. The fare came to £32! The taxi driver was really sorry and said he would only charge me £20 because that's what the fare should be normally. I said it wasn't his fault that nearly every road in Central London seems to have some sort of excavation work going on so we settled on £25!

Then when I got to my home station it was wet and I didn't fancy dragging the suitcase up the vertical hill so another £4.50 on a taxi home!

So all in all the Taxi budget took a right bashing this month!:eek:

I popped out when I got home and picked up some soya milk, bananas and apples from the Co-op, then unpacked, put some washing on and put my feet up! In the evening I felt really tired – probably not used to getting up at the crack of dawn over the past few days– so I went to bed just after 8.30pm!

Yesterday I went into work to find the usual three hundred and odd emails awaiting me and spent most of the day catching up with things.

The rest of the presents that I had ordered had arrived so once I have wrapped these up and bought a small box of chocs for my colleague on the desk all presents are finally finished. I also received a £25 M&S voucher and a lovely box of Hotel Chocolat chocs for Christmas from two of our clients. It's so nice that they think of me each year. Re. the chocolates, I don't think there's a lot in the box that is vegan so I'm going to take them over to DSis's at Christmas to be shared out.

Other spends were £1 for the Salvation Army band playing at the station in the morning and £27 for my evening nail appointment.

This lunchtime I went to get my weekly lunchtime coffees for me and my friend and one of the really nice girls in Pret let me have them for free! My friend and I have bought some Christmas booze for the staff there as they are so nice and cheery and always so efficient. So £15 each was spent here between the two of us.

Monies in today was £5 cashback on my Amex card from the vegan restaurant outlay on Sunday. I signed up to the Christmas Small Businesses Cashback event on Amex a few weeks ago and didn't realise the restaurant was taking part. So a nice little surprise.

Off this evening to have my highlights done so will be late in this evening but will catch up with diaries later.

Also, a MSE RL friend is not feeling too good at the moment so thinking of her today.:(

Sun_Addict

Don't talk to me about taxi fares :eek: London is a nightmare at the moment with all the road and building works going on. Pret is one of my favourite places to go for a coffee plus they do some really nice food.