Easter 2025 I’m coming to get you!

carboot_karaoke

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So great to see a new number at the beginning ☺️ congratulations

Hettyhound

Pay day so money moved around. Overpaid mortgage another £113 so I managed to meet my "tight" target of £15,860. Went shopping last night so the cupboards are full again. Signed up to 2 10 km runs, along with my best friend's daughter. She is considerably younger than me (21 vs 58!) so it will be interesting to see how we both do. We don't live close enough to train together so race day will be the first time. I've created myself a training plan but I think I'll have to skip today; it's chucking it down and I'm full of cold so I may do a yoga session instead. Took my son to a school careers evening yesterday to see if there is anything to interest him enough to make him try harder with his academics. I'll chat with him over the weekend.

Hettyhound

On holiday today and its chucking it down so I won't get to the allotment. Just made a February over payment of £110 so mortgage is now £15,750, mortgage DD goes out on the 10th.

Hettyhound

Made an overpayment of £943 so mortgage is now £14,600. Been messing around with spreadsheets and calculations. I would like to get this under £10k by October and maybe use my savings around April/May 27 to pay it all off. Although best laid plans and all that; had to buy a new TV on Sunday as the screen finally went. I would have been happy not to bother but my son needs one for playing his XBox on. Only paid £137 so not the end of the world. Pay day on Friday at long last but March is looking expensive already 🙁

KajiKita

You did well to hold out on the TV as long as you did …😉

Well done on the new start-of-the-mortgage-balance-number 😊👏

KK

beanielou

Great mortgage total.

South_coast

That's a cracking OP, well done you 👍

Hettyhound

Thanks everyone. I did some extra work over Christmas that has been paid so the whole lot and some extra got added to the mortgage. Unfortunately the day didn't end too well as I got a call from the school telling me my son had been the victim of some bullying and I sincerely hope when they decide who did it they get suspended. The SENCO rang me before half term to say that a group of year 8 boys seemed to have a campaign going against the kids with statements but that they were aware of it and were dealing with it. Before the holiday one of these kids said my son had used a racist word (which he hadn't) but they were trying to get him into trouble as its an automatic exclusion. He had been very upset at the accusation and it had affected his behaviour in school. Today's incident against him is just totally disgusting. He had PE last lesson, went into the changing rooms at the end and got a drink from his water bottle, took a mouthful (swallowed it) spat the rest out when he realised someone had actually peed into his bottle! He gave it to the teacher who poured it out and confirmed someone had peed into his water. Luckily he hasn't been sick but I'll keep an eye on his kidney function. I'm hoping/expecting a call from the school tomorrow otherwise I'll be ringing them on Wednesday. Obviously he's really upset and doesn't understand why someone would want to do that to him; neither do I, some kids are just awful 😢

beanielou

Jeez. That’s awful. At that age they should know better. Hope your son is ok.

carboot_karaoke

That's just awful 😖 for you and your son.

I hope the school response sends a clear message that bullying is unacceptable.