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Learning to walk before I run
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Awww man - one busy day at work and I miss the haggis chat!
I suspect @Greying_Pilgrim saw this:
The fancy one is more like this:
Haggis can't be exported to the US, probably something to do with mad sheep disease… I believe the latter producer actually has a US facility just to get around this! Less lungs?5 -
The top tin is precisely the brand I saw ed. Gosh, I didn't know that about the export/import thing. I mean, I'm not surprised, but I'd not heard about it - nor the 'workaround' 😉.
Greying X
GC November 2026 £0/£143.00 - "Low-Vember", credit: @Blackcats
GC September 2026 £226.57/£225
GC August 2026 £218.02/£232.50
GC July 2026 £237.82/£232.50
GC June 2026 £225.39/£225
Non-food spend November 2026 £0/£80
Bulk Fund 2026 Month 11/12 - £0/£20.40 (reducing balance - start £120)4 -
I did my lesson! Felt like a total tit and was older than both instructors combined but got on with it and moved past my initial embarrassment. Guess I'm a grown up 😉
Relaxing with a Negroni and a movie, got a wee cheeky day off tomorrow
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Well done Ed - always nice to have a new challenge in the works!
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Well done you.
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.[/b] [11 months left.[/b]5 -
Personally, I prefer a Cosmo to a Negroni. Just saying…
And re tech, I have never used an edible fruit-from-a-tree phone but I do use a desktop of theirs (my third) and occasionally a chrome book or Mr S's laptop. He has a fruity tablet and I used to have one, but we both use robot O/S, his on a Pixel - I used to have a blackberry for work but I retired as 🍎 were replacing them
Have a good day
Save £12k in 2026 #2 I have banked £10,836.47 in 9 months, against a £10k target The Save £12k in 2026 thread is here
OS Grocery Challenge in 2026 I have a £3000 annual budget for 2026 - currently £2270.73 to the end of Oct
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the grow your own in 2027 thread brand new and sparkling - feel free to join us and say what and how you are planning
My keep within our budget diary is here5 -
Sorry to be relentlessly heteronormative @Suffolk_lass but I've never tried a Cosmo! 🤣
I'm having a wild day off. Nice breakfast at a favourite café, posh bakery for Mrs E and the girls, pint in a pub on the way home, planning on picking up a FT 😉 Walking everywhere to offset the scran, 10k and counting. Will try and finish the last Lord of the Rings film, too, if I have time.
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What's a FT 🤔?
Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!5 -
Financial Times. Alas, Mr S could not oblige...
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I assumed a fitness tracker, lol
Save £12k in 2026 #2 I have banked £10,836.47 in 9 months, against a £10k target The Save £12k in 2026 thread is here
OS Grocery Challenge in 2026 I have a £3000 annual budget for 2026 - currently £2270.73 to the end of Oct
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the grow your own in 2027 thread brand new and sparkling - feel free to join us and say what and how you are planning
My keep within our budget diary is here5
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