The Edcawber Principle

edinburgher

I finally have a start date for my new job! One month to go

beanielou

edinburgher wrote: »

I finally have a start date for my new job! One month to go

Great news:T:j:T

Suffolk_lass

Ooh good! Goodness that has taken some time to work through. Glad your HR team isn't in the negotiations team!!

edinburgher

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Ooh good! Goodness that has taken some time to work through. Glad your HR team isn't in the negotiations team!!

I'm not sure that I'm confident in their ability to be the HR team :rotfl:

edinburgher

Up bright and early for my Saturday morning "shift" at MB. Mrs E takes DD to her dancing class on Saturdays, so it's the least disruptive time of the week to be a rude sod and ignore everyone! Currently listening to some 90s Orbital drinking a huge mug of coffee

The bank transfer for our last FIT reading came in yesterday. It was lower than expected, but it has been a good year for solar all things considered (+£100 vs. last year). £167.82 paid off a CC :j

I read a short article the other day saying that 0% BT cards are becoming less common, more expensive and with lower offer periods, which doesn't exactly fill me with joy. Ah well, I will keep plugging away at them. I've definitely got a pay rise coming in a month, Mrs E got a recent pay rise and we may also have a second pay rise/bonus and a small windfall coming by year end.

Today I am cooking HM chicken pot pies with shortcrust pastry cases (roasted the chicken yesterday, will make HM stock this morning for the sauce). Got to keep using my new pudding moulds :rotfl:

Have a lovely Saturday everyone.

Suffolk_lass

If you are looking for a 0% BT card the Spanish bank is 27 months with no fee at the moment. I appreciate you may be looking at the future prospects for these but there are still deals to be had. Personally I try to pay off within the 0% period so each one is removed. Gone are the days of our MBNA cards with a 1% fee, an 18 month period on cash advances with balances of £15k and £12k for DH and me. We acquired £27k and used it in a high interest account to pay over £100 a month off our mortgage :whistle:

edinburgher

I think I'm past anything too clever for now (although MB is going that way) :think:

Pies were lovely, although the carrots could have been a little softer. I blind baked the cases and everything (chick peas substituting for ceramic beads that I didn't have)! Had a lovely early dinner with some steamed broccoli and a glass or two of vino, now doing some MB admin and figuring out whether I made a profit

Also found time for a nice family walk around a large local park, plenty of Pooh sticks as there's a lovely valley where a river runs off a series of small waterfalls

edinburgher

Apparently B@rclaycard closed one of my CCs with a positive balance. They are going to send me the princely sum of £21.64, most of which was interest. I have paid this off another CC.

Had a nice bank holiday with Mrs E, today is our wedding anniversary.

beanielou

Happy anniversary

edinburgher

Cheers beanielou. We ended the evening with vintage champagne (Lidl) and the Simpsons - very us