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Udderly lovely Fortune 🤣😁4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 8 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 16 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!2
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rtandon27 said:Udderly lovely Fortune 🤣😁
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Re Christmas Pudding vodka--the vodka soaked fruit makes very good boozy mince pies.4
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They're fantastic, fortune! ❤Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
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Gorgeous slates, fs - I particularly ❤ the heart
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Pollie said:Re Christmas Pudding vodka--the vodka soaked fruit makes very good boozy mince pies.
Thanks for the tip @Pollie - I do sometimes make my own mince pies and T£$co have failed to deliver any for the last 3 weeks so that will come in handy 😘
Fortune x
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Jessy103 said:They're fantastic, fortune! ❤greent said:Gorgeous slates, fs - I particularly ❤ the heart xbeanielou said:Love the heart x
Thanks guys 🤗 I did make another heart wreath with white and silver snowflakes but I forgot to take a photo.
Fortune x
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Premature?
We have taken @Cheery_Daff's lead and broken into the Christmas Cake 🙄 We realised that it will only be the two of us eating it and, if we didn't start now, it might still be going by next Christmas 😆 I don't think there are any rules about when to cut the cake are there? I hope we haven't invited any bad luck - because we've all had enough of that already this year 😆
Other than that there's not much to report. It's Mr F's last day at work today until next year and he's not planning to work too hard today unless he has to. He has a couple of non-work jobs to do - our back door hasn't been closing properly since the threshold was replaced so he'll need to take the sander to that and he's going to deliver the final Christmas present to friendly farmer tomorrow. I have the usual housework to do and the on-line grocery shop to finish.
It's the Winter Solstice today. The Celts thought the sun stood still for 12 days in the middle of winter and they lit a (Yule) log on the Solstice and burned it throughout the night for 12 hours as a symbol of hope that the sun would return. I have lit an LED candle and placed it at the window as I'm not comfortable leaving a live flame burning overnight 😂😂😂 Let's hope it helps to banish the darkness and bring good luck in the new year.
Brightest blessings on this Yuletide Fare,
give love and peace in equal share.
With Yuletide warmth thy hearth be blessed,
that lifts the heart of kin and guest.
Fortune x
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Merry Yule to you too Fortune! Love the slates, especially the heart. Found a bottle of cheap vodka in the drinks cupboard over the weekend and neither of us will drink it (well DH loves vodka but he's a snob and only likes Grey Goose
) so will definitely see if turning it into Christmas pudding vodka improves it! We cracked open the marmalade gin at the weekend and think I now have a new favourite drink, had to restrain myself from pouring a third glass 
Emergency Fund - £8572.39 / £10,000 :: Mortgage OP 2025 - £LISA 24/25 - £3200 / £4000 :: NSD 2025 - 2 / 150 :: Books Read: 1 / 52 :: Decluttering - 4 / 1000Engaged 9th December 2010 :: Married 29th October 2015 :: Bought a House 13th January 20173
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