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2020++ - smiling and waving and looking so fine
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Good to see you back mate, sounds like you've been productive. Great news on the flat for your son.2
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Well done on your election result. Sounds like your hard work paid off27/5/17 Mort 64705 BTs 1904031/12/17 Mort 59815 BT 1673007/04/20 Mort 49208 BT 1572128/07/20 Mort 47387 BT 1263414/11/20 Mort 45905 BT 10134 20/05/21 Mort 42335 BT 686811/08/22 Mort 32050 BT 2915Sealed Pot Challenge 16 Number 52
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Yes both good news in different ways - thanks - it's good to be back!I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine1 -
Glad the Pip for youngest got resolved. It can be a horrid process.
Glad someone enjoyed election season.
Great news on DS1 fledging.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £165K Equity 38.88% 6/9/26
2) £1.5K Net savings after CCs 29/8/26 (but owed £130) so £1.6K
3) 47/82K @29/8/26 = 57.31% AVC Goal by mid 20282 -
Well that all sounds wonderfully positive, well done, and congratulations on the chick leaving the nest.
Now I want to know about the diplomatic incident - are you to be addressed as 'disgraced former ambassador M' now?4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
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@f0xh0les - More of an undiplomatic incident really,
As you know my diary has been going a long while and part of my enjoyment was the various metrics I use to keep track in my signature. The MSE team insisted that for Ambassadors the pro forma text had to be front and centre to support clarity / policy compliance rather than personal signature going first. In the discussion of this I felt I was being treated more as an resource than a valued member - so I got a bit huffy and walked - I'm not good at being micro-managed. My boards were active and needed no real maintenance so I don't feel I let anyone down - and I am concentrating on fewer things this year as I wind it all down - so whilst not win/win I don't think it was lose/lose.
So now I have lost my signature and will have to recreate it - but for now Bowie will take the strain..
(I probably should have left the incident all mysterious as it was all a bit storm in a tea pot and TBH "contrary old man" is not a great look
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(( On the plus side - I can finally admit I don't really like Ferrero Rocher))I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine4 -
LOL at storm in teacup....Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £165K Equity 38.88% 6/9/26
2) £1.5K Net savings after CCs 29/8/26 (but owed £130) so £1.6K
3) 47/82K @29/8/26 = 57.31% AVC Goal by mid 20281 -
Yay to recreating and reinstating your signature. You never know, it might come back next time they do their factory reset. Mine keeps jumping back to previous versions. I even had a mortgage again!4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******2 -
well it was more than a teacup -!! apologies for mixing my metaphors. although apparently the american version is a Tempest in a Teapotsavingholmes said:LOL at storm in teacup....I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
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Tempest hey.... Glad you're back.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £165K Equity 38.88% 6/9/26
2) £1.5K Net savings after CCs 29/8/26 (but owed £130) so £1.6K
3) 47/82K @29/8/26 = 57.31% AVC Goal by mid 20280
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