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Jessy103

You are one classy lady, SC 😂😂😂

South_coast

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Jessy103

Day 1 of lockdown: I woke up about 7am and took the dogs out. Got a cup of tea and slowly woke up. Me and BF did a 10min beginners yoga video on YouTube, which was nice. I went to work to drop off some files and had a chat with a couple of work colleagues who were having to go in for the rest of the week to finish off some work for year end. My bestie at work, who is the Procurement Manger, procured me some toilet rolls and hand soap, no one at work to use them and they'd had a delivery the day before we shut down, so why not! Walked to the C0 0p and got a few bits and finally a loaf of bread! That'll be the last time I can go in for a little while, there was a sign saying they'd noticed people were popping in everyday to get the same stuff and seeing as it's a small village, they recognise the same people and they were going to put a stop to it. To be fair, I'm not one of these people but I don't want to be responsible for someone who is desperate for something not getting it because I had got it but not needed it. 
We watched the Shawshank Redemption and had a cheese and pickle baguette for lunch. We then did something super naughty, we had an afternoon nap!! 
When we woke up, we had our 1hr daily exercise and took the dogs for a lovely walk, the park had a tree in blossom and it was gorgeous, photo below.
We then had stuffed mushrooms and jacket potato for tea. We're now chilling out, I've done some surveys and now doing my swagbucks. 

Take care and stay safe x

South_coast

Excellent utilisation of the Procurement Manager 😀

Jessy103

South_coast said:

Excellent utilisation of the Procurement Manager 😀

Thanks SC! 😂

Jessy103

Morning all! Hope you are well!

Day 2: I logged onto Natwest this morning to look at the mortgage and the interest of £190 exactly has been added on for the month. This was less than expected so that made me smile. I've paid the £90 to round the mortgage down to £66,800. According to the mortgage overpayment calculator by doing this I have saved £117 in interest and 1 month off my mortgage term.

We have been paid today so I've put £100 straight into savings (Nationwide are running a competition where if you put £100+ into one of their ISAs by 30/04/20 you could win £20,000) . I've got a few purchases to clear out of my current account - my C0 0p shop from yesterday and Netlix. I will then do a TT into my savings account. Once the normal mortgage payment of £353.21 goes out, the mortgage will be £66,446.79. I'll do a payment of £46.79 to round it down to £66,400 and the rest of the money I would have used for mortgage overpayments will go into savings. We've had a letter from work this morning confirming the furlough and 80% pay.

We did another 10min yoga video for beginners again this morning and I hope to do this everyday to keep us a bit more active. I'm now doing a few surveys and doing my swagbucks daily goal. I've noticed on my swagbucks watch that the videos have now gone up to watch 25 for 1SB - bit pants! BF is learning a new song on his guitar so that will keep him quiet for a bit but it is nice to hear, he is very good and used to be a teacher.

I've found some Gardeners World magazines from 2018 that I received when I had a subscription. I never got round to reading them because it was the year I left Yorkshire but did bring them with me (The subscription was cancelled before I left). I'm going to read these today and then pass them onto my grandparents. My nan rang yesterday to say they are well but she is getting bored, even in her 80s my nan is very active and goes to several bingo nights in the village and surrounding villages, as well as her weekly knit and natter at the local village hall, so she is finding this very difficult. She asked me to order her a couple of puzzles, which I have done. I ending up getting them from Waterstones because pretty much all of them on Amazon were out of stock!! I do have a Waterstones card so I will get some points and I can use those towards a book at some point or maybe a birthday present.

Lunch will be tomato soup with the rest of the baguette left over from yesterday. Tea will be fajitas. I'm grateful that I have been a meal planner for a few years now so having to do this is nothing new and comes easily. I'm sure there will be people out there struggling to do this as they have never had to before! 

Oh and I need to catch up on Martin Lewis's show last night.

Take care and stay well x

Chrystal

You sound cheerful and organised, which is lovely

Enjoy the music and stay well. X

Jessy103

Chrystal said:

You sound cheerful and organised, which is lovely

Enjoy the music and stay well. X

Thanks Chrystal, I'm trying to stay as positive as possible. 
Thank you and take care x

Hettyhound

I too have dug out my old GW magazines from when I had a subscription!  Sadly don’t think I’ll  have the time what with working at home and home schooling a 7 year old and searching for food.  I’ve taken Wednesday as leave so I only have to home school not work so hoping to get in the garden but my ever present side kick makes more mess than anything and it stresses me out so maybe not a relaxing day after all

Jessy103

I've read one and got 3 to go. I've also got to catch up on Friday's episode. 

I hope you get some time to relax, hetty! Are you able to slip him some whiskey so he takes a nap or is that frowned upon in the parental world?! 😂