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New job = New focus = Still a good life

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  • pippi made your pork sweet & sour tonight and it was EPIC!!! Thanks so much for posting, added to favourites in this house :D
  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 24,717 Forumite
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    Yes I need to try that sweet & sour too - it did sound good!

    Cake for tree is definitely a good swap Stripes - well done! :T
    🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
    Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
    Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
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  • pippi made your pork sweet & sour tonight and it was EPIC!!! Thanks so much for posting, added to favourites in this house :D

    I'm so glad you liked it - its a brilliant recipe and so simple. I hope you're well.
    Yes I need to try that sweet & sour too - it did sound good!

    Cake for tree is definitely a good swap Stripes - well done! :T

    Today no swappage occurred. Shoddy really.

    We have an official potting shed mascot. Whos' always on the look out for tasty stuff.
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    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:
  • Oh my, that mascot is adorable! :happyhear
  • well will you just LOOK at Hound The Elder posing away in "his" doorway! Looks to me like he knows who's in charge, but then nothing new there! :rotfl::D

    Taking them in with you is working well then?
    🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
    Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
    Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
    £100k barrier broken 1/4/25
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  • That mascot looks very much at home!


    Lots of Freegling going on here today - whatever did I do before this?
  • aw visitors how lovely.

    He is adorable isn't he folks. MMT don't be fooled, trained killer that one, well of bonios anyway.

    Waves to you all.

    Trog I hope you've got some nice stuff.

    A busy but fun week - yes EH I've taken them some days - dashed home one day as snr wasn't too great and might make a bed up in the shed for them.

    Do they behave - well if you call standing in the middle of flower beds behaivng or charging around the paths at one million miles an hour - then erm, yes.

    Busy busy week HG is still off so I'm afraid its me and so far this week its been 'oh did we tell you we're bringing a digger through that border and you need to empty it (yes and the trees) - ok.

    Lots of digging has occurred. And lots of lugging things to differnent places to save them.

    Not much money saving aside home meals and lunches.

    I scored a free jaffa cake today.

    I know how to live.

    Have a good one I'm off to de-compost the bath......

    :)
    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
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    Loving the mascot :)
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  • Sounds like you're still loving it then! :D:T
    🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
    Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
    Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
    Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
    £100k barrier broken 1/4/25
    SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculator
    she/her
  • chevalier
    chevalier Posts: 7,937 Forumite
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    HI Pippi
    I have been following your story with interest even if not posting. Congratulations on the job it sounds right up your street.
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    I want a job that is less than an hour driving away from my house! Are you listening universe?
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