Easter 2025 I’m coming to get you!

savingholmes

Great your son is getting the help he needs. 

Your mortgage is really coming down now. Soon it will be in touching distance of the finish line.

Hettyhound

Very sadly I buried my beloved cat Millie last night in the garden after she had been hit by a car and left dead at the roadside. Some very kind people added a message to our local FB page and a lovely lady took her at 11:30pm to the out of hours vet, bless her I will be forever grateful.  I collected her yesterday evening so we could bring her home    She was the youngest of the pets at 11 years and the remaining cat (Sybil 17 years) and Hetty (14 years) seem to be grieving too.  Its quiet and sad in our home today.

savingholmes

That's so sad. Hugs

beanielou

Hettyhound said:

Very sadly I buried my beloved cat Millie last night in the garden after she had been hit by a car and left dead at the roadside. Some very kind people added a message to our local FB page and a lovely lady took her at 11:30pm to the out of hours vet, bless her I will be forever grateful.  I collected her yesterday evening so we could bring her home    She was the youngest of the pets at 11 years and the remaining cat (Sybil 17 years) and Hetty (14 years) seem to be grieving too.  Its quiet and sad in our home today.

So sorry 

Hettyhound

I've just made an overpayment of £55.84 to round down my mortgage to £29,900.  Working overtime tomorrow as I did last Saturday so that will be ear marked for the mortgage.  Currently re-doing my budgets and re assessing my spending pots, especially my groceries allowance.  It might sound strange but loosing Millie has made me think long and hard how I want my future life to be and its not as it is now or where I live now; although the where bit is still perplexing me.  Lots of thinking needed while I whittle away at the mortgage.

Hettyhound

I've just realised I have now paid off £50,000 on my own in 7 and a half years!!  I am so happy and proud!!!!! 

beanielou

Hettyhound said:

I've just realised I have now paid off £50,000 on my own in 7 and a half years!!  I am so happy and proud!!!!! 

That's amazing.
Be very proud indeed

Jessy103

So sorry to hear about Millie ❤

Congratulations on the £50k paid, that's amazing and you are right to be proud x

savingholmes

That's a huge amount - well done Hetty.

It's good not to sleep walk through life and to take opportunities along the way to re-evaluate whether you are still heading in a direction you're happy with.

Hettyhound

Hello people out there.  So my mortgage now stands at £29,299. 34 and my current interest rate is 5.89%.  Just looked earlier in my diary and when I took it out on 31st December 2022 it was 4.39%.  Just waiting for the next rise.  Its only a small amount owing for which I'm very grateful as the interest rate on my lovely fixed at 1.64% was costing me about £48 in interest per month; last month I paid £136!  Food is still going up for what seems to me no apparent reason anymore.  I would have thought it would have levelled off by now.  What also really bugs me is how expensive food that hasn't been "fiddled with" is compared to this ultra processed stuff that is churned out.  Anyway mini moan over.  Allotment is very slow this year and I've struggled to get things to germinate however I have cucumbers and tomatoes in the polytunnel, garlic, onions, potatoes and broad beans in the ground and then a crop of chillies and peppers in my cold frame at home.  I have made soup at lunch and some mini quiche things made in muffin tins (non stick tin brushed with oil and still stuck!).  Don't think I'll make them again but there was a little bit of pastry left from making a quiche on Sunday and they will do to take for my lunch tomorrow as its office day.  My son has been invited to 2 birthday parties so need presents for those and he starts swimming lessons next Saturday.  It became apparent that even though his year missed on on school swimming due to covid they were not going to arrange lessons for his year group.  We had a form to complete at the beginning of the school year regarding swimming ability and then heard no more; they arranged lessons for yrs 3/4 instead.  I can't remember whether I mentioned we have got a statement of educational needs for him so I'm feeling a lot happier about his transition to secondary in Sept 24 and I've heard good things about the SEND provision at the school he is planning on going to.  Went to BBC Gardener's World at the NEC last Saturday and going to a local ish food festival on Sunday where I have booked Alex a 30 minute cookery lesson on healthy pizzas.  We have another Retained Reflexes appointment in 10 days so have now been going a year.  It has definitely helped and he is now only 18 months behind in reading.  Fish for tea but no broad beans as I was not going to the allotment in the pouring rain!  Frozen peas and sweetcorn instead; best go and make it.