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newgirly

Glad you feel better now, there’s lots going around aside from the obvious! 

Jessy103

Thanks NG ❤

My new phone arrived today. My old one was 4 years old and starting to die, so it was time. My new contract is £20 a month and I've got free Disney+ for a few months too. I've had to order a new case for it which should arrive tomorrow because I'm extremely clumsy and drop phones all the time! It has a lovely big screen and several cameras, which will come in handy for the 100s of photos I seem to take of my dogs sleeping 😂

Me and BF have now had our booster. Was going to book into the doctors but came across a post on the village's Facebook page saying they were doing them in the community centre which is across the road from us. We were in, jabbed and out within 10mins. It has left us feeling a bit rough though, so an early night is needed.

Shopping came last night, I decided to try Morrison's as I've felt a bit let down by Tesco lately. I have to say they were very good and the 3 substitute items I received were sensible, unlike Tesco substituting my vegetable soup for oxtail or my 4 cheese pizza for pepperoni. Erm... did all the vegetarian/vegan food not give you a clue about something! 😂 I also got an extra discount thanks to MIL's staff discount that she gets to share with 3 people. Who knew, she can be helpful and nice! I think she's resigned herself to the fact she can't get rid of me now that her son has put a ring on it 😂

QueenJess

Ha ha... I take too many photos of DS and DD sleeping.  It's a similar thing!

Rest up and drink plenty of water with the booster (apparently).  I felt rubbish for a while and I think more people were hit by the booster than the others.

StripeyTightsSpottySocks

Hi Jessy Hope all is well with you - i am the same with phones - i cannot use one until it has a case on it! I am so clumsy -eg i spilled coffee all over the desk at work the other day  I couldn't do anything straight away as was on a training meeting online - i was just using paper to push the lake of coffee away   

Jessy103

Thanks Jess! The booster did indeed knock me on my bottom! I ended up finishing work Wednesday lunch and then pretty much sleeping until Thursday morning, when I woke I was absolutely fine. Very bizarre! 

Omg stripey! You do sound like me! I once dropped my phone in my tomato soup on a lunch break at work. I fished it out quickly so it worked fine but as it was a white phone it had an orange tint for the rest of it's days 😂

Well, thank goodness it's payday. It feels like January has lasted an age! 
£100 allocated straight to savings and a £256.87 overpayment made to the mortgage. The total now being £51,400.

The car has finally had it's new part fitted and is back on the road. Our first trip out will be to W1ckes tomorrow. My aim is to get the bathroom sorted, so I will be buying some boxing,so the pipes where the new boiler has been fitted will no longer be showing, a length of skirting board to replace the one that was rotten due to leaky old boiler and some paint to redecorate. New blinds will come later on when the first bits have been completed. I've got Monday and Tuesday off work, so its the perfect time to do it.

Have a great weekend x

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, nice mortgage figure there, and good savings amount too, well done you!

Jessy103

Thanks cheery 😃

The weekend is off to a good start. We went to W1ckes and got all that was needed apart from the stuff to box in the pipes. It seems our pipes are too high and project too far off the wall for the standard boxing. Typical! 🙄

We decided to clean up the pipes and paint them instead. Top tip to clean oxidised copper pipes, tomato ketchup! Just coat some on, leave it on for 20mins and then clean off with warm water, works a treat. We've then primed them and then will be ready to paint tomorrow. We've filled some holes left from removing the rotten skirting board , which will just need sanding then can be painted and I've painted the skirting board. It's made the door look yellow though so I will need to paint that too. It already looks and feels so much better. I'm going to have a look at new blinds tomorrow.

newgirly

Hi Jessy, sounds like a breakthrough if mil is sharing her discount 😆 mines finally mellowed slightly after 25 years she’s not quite so rude! I’ve also been decorating this weekend, there must be something in the air 😬

Jessy103

Oh NG! You deserve a medal for putting up with that for 25 years or better yet a huge reward 😂

The bathroom is all painted! Woohoo! It looks so much better now it has proper bathroom paint on, instead of the horrible matt, chalky paint the previous owners used. All that is left to do now is paint the new length of skirting board, cut to size and fit, seal around the windows and skirting board with the white sealant I 'borrowed' from work and buy and fit new blinds. 

I went to the dentist yesterday and unfortunately have to go back for a filling to be replaced in 2 weeks at the cost of £65, but shouldn't complain I haven't had to have one for a long time and to be honest I'm thankful to have got into my dentist when I moved back here, as recently it seems none in the local area, including mine are taking new patients.

My mortgage DD has cleared, so I've made an overpayment today of £304.55, my new total is £50,800. I've only got £220 of my overpayment allowance left until it resets in June, so I will have to wait a bit longer to get into the 40s, but it's going to happen this year! 😊

South_coast

That sounds like a bargain for a filling to me. I'm due for a check-up shortly so looked up the prices the other day. £51 for the examination and £10 Covid cleaning levy 😱 A large white filling is now £280 😱😱😱!