Prosperous soul in the making

savingholmes · 18 October 2021 at 5:44PM

SandyShores said:

I'm batch cooking soup for the week too I bought leeks, carrots, potatoes and onions yesterday to make a soup for the week (but its all still sat in the fridge so I need to make it this morning). Sometimes you just need a rest.

Glad you got a rest. My soup was tasty and soothing today. Mid afternoon I had the other half of the macaroni I cooked yesterday. I finished after 6 hours today. Will catch up tomorrow.EssexHebridean said:

I need to get back to a bit more batch cooking but before that I need to actually make some space in the freezer - so well and truly with you on opoeration lower-the-grocery-spend! The colouring is lovely - I love doing stuff like that but at the moment would need to get my glasses sorted out first I think - close-up stuff is not my friend right now!

Good luck with getting your glasses sorted. It's worth it. I have varifocals and have to accept imperfection...

savingholmes · 18 October 2021 at 5:50PM

Sunshine_girl2 said:

Delurking to say I have read all your diary in the last 7 days , what a journey you have been on. I wish you nothing but luck and happiness in the next phase of your life. Hoping the mortgage offer comes through soon.

Wow that's impressive. Thanks. A lot to read. Hope it helps you on your own journey.

ohdearhowdidthathappen said:

Popped in to say 'hello' and Wow! you've had a turbulent few months, glad life seems to have settled for you a bit now. Can't believe how long the mortgage is taking, they can be so awkward when they want to be...

Yes the mortgage offer seems to be taking forever. Don't really understand why... Good to see you back.

On the divorce front looks like we will soon sign our fin statement stuff so the end is in sight. Currently he is still on track to assign the life ins to me... Which is a big relief as it would have cost me a fortune to replicate that cover now.

savingholmes · 18 October 2021 at 11:01PM

Well I nipped out earlier for meds.

Got 11 lots of 10p YS veg. Also got 10p cob.

So used about 4 stewing veg packs and 2 mixed sweet potato and butternut squash packs to make another huge vat of soup. This time I added salt, garlic granules, allspice, nutmeg, squirt of tomato puree, turmeric, a tin of mushy peas, 3 chicken stock cubes. Tasty. Plan to freeze some of both soups so I can have some variety for no effort another week.

doingitanyway · 19 October 2021 at 11:03AM

Enjoy your soup. Just about to make mine with a box of veg for £1.50 from L1Dl

EssexHebridean · 19 October 2021 at 11:13AM

Excellent work on the soup - see, THIS is why I need to get our freezers a bit more sorted out!

Also good news on the financials with ex, particularly that life insurance - fingers crossed it all carries on going to plan!

savingholmes · 19 October 2021 at 6:45PM

doingitanyway said:

Enjoy your soup. Just about to make mine with a box of veg for £1.50 from L1Dl

Hope yours turns out well too. Great bargain. I had the second soup today - really filling and warming.

EssexHebridean said:

Excellent work on the soup - see, THIS is why I need to get our freezers a bit more sorted out!

Also good news on the financials with ex, particularly that life insurance - fingers crossed it all carries on going to plan!

Definitely worth having freezer space - but like someone else commented - even though I took loads of things out last week - there still doesn't seem any space... Nice problem to have.

I am thrilled re life insurance. Tomorrow I need to chase my solicitor as I expected docs through to sign today for the financial bit so that can be submitted but they haven't come yet.

Mortgage - I got asked for more bank statements today which seemed weird so I rang my broker. He doesn't think the 6 months worth I uploaded on the 13/10 actually made it to the lender. Picture fizzing coming out of cartoon head. He said just upload one more. He will chase it through tomorrow. I said I've been having nightmares about it all. He said you've passed the income test - they just want to double check there's no gambling issue or anything like that and then you should get to offer stage... He reckons the legals will then take another 4-8 weeks.... Here's hoping for 4 weeks. 19/11 is my earliest allowed divorce date so I was kind of hoping to hit it.... Cutting it fine.

I'm debating what to do about all my hall and landing lights. There are at least 4 sets of 4 lights... Each has a cap you have to unscrew before you can even fit a bulb. I'm thinking of changing the lights - particularly on the landing to ones that are less complicated. They came with the house so were never my choice anyway. As a minimum I need to get Ex to unscrew all the caps as there's no way I want to / would be able to do that given how clumsy I am at the best of times. I'm particularly worried about the landing ones. Once I have my mortgage offer - I think that's my next priority to try and get sorted - particularly if Ex will do it for me before he goes... No harm in asking. Otherwise BIL would do for me...

DS is due home - briefly - possibly Thursday night. Not sure when he's travelling to BIL/Sis. He's house sitting for them/their dog - but has promised to do some things for me while he's home. Will be interesting to see if any of them materialise. He's borrowing Ex's car which is kind of him.

I was feeling mega stressed re the mortgage before I rang the broker but feeling better now (comparatively).

MovingForwards · 19 October 2021 at 7:04PM

Send the statements to your broker, he send them on too. Great you've passed affordability!

Do you bag up the freezer foods before putting them in? I've got different meat / veg in the different drawers as it makes it easier to see where I'm needing to top up.

Lights sound interesting, perhaps have the caps taken off now, let the mortgage go through and a few months later have them swapped over. Keeps costs down for the immediate future and allows time to replenish funds or create a budget for doing the changes.

WelshKitty85 · 19 October 2021 at 8:00PM

Loving all the soup talk. I've not made any in a long time. I quite fancy a bowl of leek & potato now. Will add the ingredients to this weekend's shopping list.