Champagne Lifestyle on a Lemonade Budget - 2021

helensbiggestfan

Hello everyone. 

Yes sorry I have been awol. Problems posting but also very busy preparing house for sale. I do still read along

 Signed contract with EA today. Photos next week and then all systems go. 

I'm sooooo ready.  New house, new life.  

It's now nearly 8 years since my husband died.  Although I will never forget him I'm finally ready to live a different kind of life.  No more "widow"? Rather a "solo". 

Its been a long and at times difficult journey through grief but i am finally out 
the other side. Time to let go of the past. 

No idea what lies ahead. All I know is I am ready for change 

beautiful garden pics.  Liberty.  Mines looking pretty good too. Hopefully will help
with the "kerb appeal". So I get top dollar for the house -  I need some very expensive dental work 😱😂🤣.  

 

Its perfect growing weather isn't it.  You can't beat an English garden in full bloom 

helensbiggestfan

Splitting posts because I keep losing them. 

SUgarbaby - loving what you are up to. Do let me know when your first play  premieres. I'll be there. 😁. 

Mrs P.  Wished I could show my legs in public. 😱.  They used to be my best feature.  Not any more.  Lol.  Who cares I still have 2 and they (sort of) work. 😂🤣.   

sugarbaby125

Phoebe your garden is looking gorgeous.   

Helen, so lovely to see you posting again. 

How exciting with regards to your contract with the estate agents. All systems are live now for your house sale. 

I will be able to write a play with the Neighbourhood Voices programme, but whether I will ever see my play come to the stage is another matter all together. If my play has any merit once I have written it, then I may have support to go about it being staged from one of the many industry professionals I am meeting through the programme. Who knows what my future now holds as a writer. I am dreaming big now 

Helen, at 60 years old, I am still able to show my legs from under my knees. It is best not to discuss my terrible thighs. I have never liked tights or stockings so I go bare legged even in winter. As the promised heatwave looks like it is materialising I am getting my best sandals ready.   

helensbiggestfan

Wednesday.  Glad to see you are settling in to your new home, finding your feet and discovering all the area has to offer.  Our environment is so important to our well being. Not just the actual bricks and mortar but what we do with it.  After all we buy or rent s house but we build a home. 

 My husband used to joke I could turn a prison cell into a palace. It's true. I can't resist creating comfort and beauty in my surroundings but I do think it's important. Well it is for me. I can't bear a messy home.  It makes me angsty.  And I have to confess I really appreciate a few creature comforts.

I know EAs have to be polite and flatter the client to win the business  (I used to be one so I know the score) but I think I have cracked it. I have had 4 valuations and without exception they have raved over the house. They are all falling over themselves to get it on their books.  So hopefully it will sell easily.  🤞🤞

helensbiggestfan

Sugar baby. Definitely dream big. I have a sign on my kitchen wall. It says 

"if your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough".

 A great mantra to live by.  .....

candygirl

helensbiggestfan said:

Sugar baby. Definitely dream big. I have a sign on my kitchen wall. It says 

"if your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough".

 A great mantra to live by.  .....

Love this mantra 😍

liberty_lily

Thank you, Sugarbaby and Helen 😊

So pleased to see you posting,  Helen and great to hear you've taken the plunge with regards to getting your house marketed....I wish you the very best of luck with selling, although I'm sure it will fly off the shelf 😁

sugarbaby125

My Champagne moments today:

At 2pm I was being interviewed by someone from The Old Vic about my participation in the Matinee Idols programme. He was recording the conversation and he will then transcribe the conversation then delete the recording. He was a lovely man and he immediately put me at my ease at the start of the interview. He said it had gone well at the end of the interview. My story will then me made anonymous before it is relayed to the funders of the Matinee Idols programme. 

I went to Black Cultural Archives for Poetic Unity's Open Mic poetry event. It was a good evening with a mixture of very talented poets.   

My arthritis was playing up despite me taking 4 painkillers when I got there. I only performed one of my poems, 'I'm Not A Racialist' because my right thigh was still really painful when I was called up to perform. One of the other poets did come up to me at the end of the evening to give me a compliment about my poem. 

I got talking to another mature women who had come along to the event for the first time. We really hit it off. In fact we were talking so long after the end of the event, that I was surprised to find that it was 8.45pm when our host was insisting the last stragglers leave the building. We are supposed to exit the building by 8.30pm. Normally I compliment the poets quickly and am on my way home. 

On my walk away from the building I got a loud wolf whistle from a black man that was standing there in Windrush Square. I turned and smiled at him and he said with a smile 'Mama, you look good'. I was so pleased at that compliment. Then he wolf whistled at me again even louder as I walked away. A Lovely end to my day. 

sugarbaby125

My Champagne moment this morning was receiving my Thames Water bill which had been due in April 2022. I got Water Help which saved £170.10 for my 2022/2023 bill. 

Wednesday2000

Some very nice champagne moments for everyone on here.:)

I have spent a lot of money since moving (eek, I need to rein that in!) but I have enjoyed just being outside on the beaches for free. I went to three local beaches on Thursday and it was lovely weather.