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Buffy takes it 6 months at a time

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  • Buffythedebtslayer
    Buffythedebtslayer Posts: 18,924 Forumite
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    edited 31 August 2020 at 10:22PM
    Hello 
    back to work tomorrow. I am dreading it. Living with a vulnerable person it feels like such a massive risk. I simply do not understand how the virus won't spread and I won't bring it home to mum. Illness go through schools. I will obviously social distance both here and at work etc but the nature of my job means that isn't always guaranteed.  I am not happy but as I do love my job I will stick to it. 
    In other news......I have sorted more rubbish from the garden (which looks like a tip!) and moved the rabbit enclosure. Hopefully things will come together soon. I have a plan from the roof and the floor. I am aiming to work to at work and keep my weekends for this for. The next three weekends involve garden, dog grooming and haircut! and the blessed garden! I am hoping to paint stuff for the rabbits in the evenings. 
    XXX

    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,147 Ambassador
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    Hope all goes well tomorrow Buffy xxx
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  • Yesterday was awful. Truthfully. It was shockingly bad at work. 
    today was better. But I still don't see how it will all work out. 
    I also got some news of PPI money I will be getting. I did a lot myself but ran out of time and took a punt on the the Happy stone Rivers people ;) 
    I knew the fee and was fine with it but I didn't realise I would have to pay tax on it. Bloody cheek! 
    I will put it towards the house fund, will be maybe 400 quid so that is very nice thank you. 
    but reserve the right to be annoyed about the tax!! I was reading that maybe I can claim it back...
    D head has been wonderful. especially regarding work. 
    In other news I have had to replace the filter on the fish pond. The connector split and the plastic is a bit brittle - it would not have done if I could have moved it out of the direct sunlight, but I never got round to it. 
    Yet another thing I didn't do. 

    ugh. 

    Buffy X 



    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,147 Ambassador
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    Yes you can claim the tax back. 
    Hope school gets better. Xx
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    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,880 Forumite
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    As interest on PPI is treated as savings interest (provided you haven't already used your personal untaxed savings allowance) you should be able to claim it back.  As you need a lot of savings these days to reach the £1k tax free interest you should go for it.
  • Hope work is picking up Buffy... :kissing_heart:
  • Work continues to be rough as anything. Things are poorly organised. I know it is ever changing situation and we don't know this and that and whatever but instead of going in as safe as possible we are going in one way and then realising it doesn't fit government guidelines and changing it afterwards. So yeah. I don't feel safe. 
    My friend who had covid at the start of lockdown has been diagnosed with a partially collapsed lung and an enlarged heart chamber. She hasn't said much else. Think she is shell shocked. 
    That shock me up since she caught it when we were in school. I try very hard not to share these things in real life. They might it all too much. Writing here it doesn't seem as real. Sorry guys! 
    Money wise my good news re the PPI pay out has been replaced with bad news about the insurance. They more than likely aren't going to pay for the rabbit :( 
    To be honest I am so tired tonight I can't think straight. 
    xxx

    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • I am still really tired. Woke up early. let dogs out and discovered that the foxes have destroyed a lot of the garden - plant pots turned up, compost bag ripped, Some of the stuff for the rabbits ruined and everything stinks of fox wee. The pile of rubbish in in the corner was untouched you will be glad to know. 
    I am so depressed today. Need to go out and just don't want to. 
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,147 Ambassador
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    Not good Buffster xx
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    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • Oh no sorry to hear that Buffy - you put so much work into that garden! 
    Debt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
    Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc
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