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2020++ - smiling and waving and looking so fine
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I remember that drink although my Dad also used to drink oxo, which was just as nice 😆MFW 2022 #71 £4400/£44004
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thank you DIA and Legs21 - truly a forgotten gem
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine4 -
Ouch to oven bill. Great you could absorb it in EF.
Well done on the cash reclaims.
LOL at slippers. Sounds like DH. Glad your health check went okay.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.8K Equity 36.37%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £27.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 34/£127.5K target 26.6% 10/10/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 60.35K or 47.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5K updated 10/10/254 -
New slippers and Bovril, how the other half lives!
Hope you enjoy both! 4 -
ha ha - I should change my name too Black Bovril Nice Slippers
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine6 -
Another FEB rich day today (although some were Tadpoles to be fair)
* managed to persuade DS2 to chase up on some pension money (£2K) he is owed, he won't see it for 50 years, but better in his hands than anyone else's
* finally worked out how to enable my OH to use the discount vouchers I can get from work (involves 2 different apps and Apple Pay) but means I can buy most supermarket gift cards at 5% discount (ie Pay £95 for £100 voucher)
* Found another £200 of receipts from OH foodbank after spotting a gap in the invoice - so very nearly a self inflicted stupid tax
* Managed to get my boss to approve half a performance bonus now and the rest in 3 months rather than waiting 3 months for it all - only a few hundred but may just see the end of CC2 come payday
* Cancelled Kindle Unlimited after not using it for a month (my test of value)
I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine4 -
Lovely day out in the garden, first real effort this year. Managed to build on last years efforts and clear away the much smaller amount of overgrowth/overhang.
Also cleared away an area where I will put some membrane and gravel down tomorrow, to make a new sitting area no we get a bit of extra sun without the overgrowth
However, planning the new area meant a trip out to the garden centre - but lucked out as the pots were all half price (and genuinely good value), so bought a bit of bedding as wellI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine5 -
Sounds like you are on top of things... Could do with someone sorting out all our frogs.... They seem to be multiplying currently.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.8K Equity 36.37%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £27.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 34/£127.5K target 26.6% 10/10/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 60.35K or 47.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5K updated 10/10/252 -
Thank you SH
well the frogs (and garden) certainly got a lot of attention last weekend, but I will know if I'm on top of things this next payday if I can get CC2 closed, and start addressing the swarm (host?, mess? of tadpoles in Pond CC3
didn't managed to get the gravel down as went round for a cuppa with an old friend and it turned into a bit of an outdoor tea party as their garden is a sun trapI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine5 -
Plus in other news
*other people* - just in from my daily run that's 70000 steps this week, again
*me* - hits 10000 steps for the first time this year (on Sunday) and 20,000 for the weekend
yay meI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine4
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