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New job = New focus = Still a good life

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  • Hey INOD thanks and woop to another '68-er :D

    Hope you get some fun into that grown up and proper bit too.

    :D always happy to ponder gardens :)

    Although the one I'm kept hostage in makes me X-HAUSTED
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 99,586 Ambassador
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    Thanks :)
    Faints at idea of walking 114 miles or whatever even although it is pretty damm coast :eek: :rotfl:
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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****
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    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb.
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 99,586 Ambassador
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    50 is good.
    Have to say that '62 is THE year though :p :cool:
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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.
  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 18,411 Forumite
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    :rotfl: you lot :rotfl:

    Excellent list pippi - love how many of them involve food :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Are we allowed to suggest things? :D I reckon you should enter a biggest vegetable competition :D love the idea of you mollycoddling some ludicrously overgrown veg, like that happy man with his giant onion :D:D :rotfl:
  • Pippilongstocking
    Pippilongstocking Posts: 16,336 Forumite
    beanielou wrote: »
    Thanks :)
    Faints at idea of walking 114 miles or whatever even although it is pretty damm coast :eek: :rotfl:
    I thought I might take the year to do it! :)
    :rotfl: you lot :rotfl:

    Excellent list pippi - love how many of them involve food :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Are we allowed to suggest things? :D I reckon you should enter a biggest vegetable competition :D love the idea of you mollycoddling some ludicrously overgrown veg, like that happy man with his giant onion :D:D :rotfl:

    Did someone say food :)

    Giant veg oh my - I'm tiny it would look very silly and of course you can throw ideas into the pot I shall ponder your links. :T

    Todays progress is made it to work on time after a marathon tidy :eek: for the cleaner who cleans and does not tidy. :rotfl::rotfl:
    Packed lunch and mutts with me as its a I can walk them sometime over the day kinda day.

    Have a good one folks, nice to have some headspace to be on here.
    Total debt 26/4/18 <£1925 we were getting there. :beer:
    Total debt as of 28/4/19 £7867.38:eek:
    minus 112.06 = £7755.32:money:
    :money:Sleeves up folks.:money:
  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 25,945 Forumite
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    Definitely up for joining you on some walking of that coastal path - and loving some of those other plans too!

    Your dinner with DD sounded lovely - I've never eaten Japanese food aside sushi!

    Good to have you back anyhoo - and also to hear that you've FINALLY jettisoned the silly work levels - about time too! :T:D
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    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
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  • Greying_Pilgrim
    Greying_Pilgrim Posts: 8,054 Forumite
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    Definitely up for joining you on some walking of that coastal path ........

    I think this is a spiffing idea (says Greying, seemingly inviting he'self along to t'proceedin's........ :o:p), what if (for part of the walk) you were joined by Friends (RL & 'Virtual' - but with RL 'hats, macs & stout footwear' on) & Family, that represented, oh, I don't know - all the generations/decades from 0 - 100??? (depends on who y'know, natch :D). We all pootle along, and then have a 'beach barbecue' or a beach picnic - with anyone who's 'MSE' allowed the privledge of bringing YS'd stuff... :rotfl::rotfl:

    It's got legs........ :rotfl::rotfl:

    Greying X
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    Non-food spend May 2026 £41.72/£80
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    The broken moulds in a grand design
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 99,586 Ambassador
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    I think this is a spiffing idea (says Greying, seemingly inviting he'self along to t'proceedin's........ :o:p), what if (for part of the walk) you were joined by Friends (RL & 'Virtual' - but with RL 'hats, macs & stout footwear' on) & Family, that represented, oh, I don't know - all the generations/decades from 0 - 100??? (depends on who y'know, natch :D). We all pootle along, and then have a 'beach barbecue' or a beach picnic - with anyone who's 'MSE' allowed the privledge of bringing YS'd stuff... :rotfl::rotfl:

    It's got legs........ :rotfl::rotfl:

    Greying X

    Count me in.
    Will come along to cheerlead :)
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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.
  • troglodyte
    troglodyte Posts: 712 Forumite
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    Yay glad you're back! And of course glad you have cut back on the unfeasible working hours - even if it does feel very odd. Looking forward to reading about many more stripey adventures!
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