Time to Face The Music

RelievedSheff

Happy Friday everyone.

Not a no spends day. We have been and bought some drinks supplies for the weekend this morning. That's getting to be an expensive job!

Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be from stores. Breakfast was crumpets, we have both taken our packed lunches to work and dinner tonight is pizza, chips and onion rings.

No jobs to do tonight other than walking the dog, so it will be a quiet night in watching a film with a few beers on the sofa.

Looking forward to a weekend at home this weekend.

RelievedSheff

joedenise said:

RelievedSheff said:

So I have now set up a Regular E Saver with the Red bank who we bank with anyway so our £200 per month savings will go into that account now. The only slight downside is that we can only have £2400 max in there at the end of the 12 months otherwise they will change it back to the account we already have which has a pitiful 0.2% interest rate and we can only pay in a max of £200 per month.

So I need to keep an eye on that side of it.

They also have an E-saver account which you can have up to £250,000 in with interest rate of 2% annual or 1.98% monthly.  I've opted for the monthly interest as doubt the money will be in there for the full year as it's planned to be towards spending money for our holidays which happen several times a year!

Just had a look this morning and that account is no longer available it seems. The E-Saver is now only 1.5% but up to a million rather than £250k.

joedenise

Wow - they've withdrawn that quickly; I only opened mine yesterday afternoon just before I posted!

Sun_Addict

Oh to have a spare million to put into a savings account 😆 I opened a 5% regular saver account with Principality today, can only put up to £125 a month away for a year though. 

alt80

Happy Friday and have a great weekend @RelievedSheff, always nice to see how well you're doing too. 

beanielou

Enjoy your weekend 

RelievedSheff

I don't think it will be a massively spendy day today.

We will be starting the day with a full English breakfast when we get up that is. Dinner tonight is a slow cooked beef madras with pilau rice, samosa and garlic and coriander naan bread.

We are taking the dog to see his brother this morning. We are leaving him with them for a couple of hours. See how he gets on. The hope is that he will stay with them for the night early next month when we go to a birthday party. Fingers crossed he settles with them and it isn't a repeat of the night he had at the dog sitters at the beginning of the year where he get them up all night crying!

That's about it for plans today. We will get home before the fireworks start. Get the dog walked, fed and settled and then we have Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick to watch tonight with the curtains closed and the volume turned up high to mask the fireworks. 

The dog was better than expected with last night's fireworks. He was very brave. No panting or shaking and he even asked to go in the garden a couple of times. Even got his before bed walk around the block. Hopefully he is the same tonight.

Sun_Addict

I love how you take the dog to see his brother. Being with him might distract him from missing you. Our dog is fine with fireworks thankfully. The older cat is too but the young one isn’t keen. Enjoy Maverick that’s one we’ll be watching when it appears on Prime or somewhere. We enjoyed the original many years ago. 

RelievedSheff

Sun_Addict said:

I love how you take the dog to see his brother. Being with him might distract him from missing you. Our dog is fine with fireworks thankfully. The older cat is too but the young one isn’t keen. Enjoy Maverick that’s one we’ll be watching when it appears on Prime or somewhere. We enjoyed the original many years ago. 

We bought it on Blue Ray when it was released on Monday. Looking forward to it 😀

ladyholly

Our little dog has changed her attitude to fireworks over the years. She used to sit and watch them but Mr Ltook her camping once in a tent and there was a huge thunderstorm and since then she has been scared of them. Now unless they are very loud she cant hear them. We havent had any close ones yet and the displays here are a fair distance from us so hopefully there wont be too many.