A new chapter, An empty nest, Drama school & Last year of Uni

Spendless

Finished the month of with £133 in the main account. Having to change/cancel plans at the weekend due to illness helped us keep in credit. We also had to cancel plans to see the FA. 

 Its not a huge amount left over but we were still dealing with a lot of expenditure from the summer. I've used the money to top up our everyday savings as theyd fallen below the level Im comfortable with. 

DD's student rent paid today. 

Humdinger1

@Spendless can you remind me please of what Jabberwocky covers? I can't stop picturing slivey toves....love Humdinger xx 

Spendless

Humdinger1 said:

@Spendless can you remind me please of what Jabberwocky covers? I can't stop picturing slivey toves....love Humdinger xx 

Lots of nonsensical (hence dubbed jabberwocky) little things that should have never have happened and in an alternative universe didnt. Too numerous to categorise into seperate pots though I have a spreadsheet  listing it, so all come the same umbrella.

Woke to 2 kerchings on my banking app and it was interest being paid- 93p into the savings account. 

Spendless

Friday and Ive just transferred £10.07. The 7p is because a few days ago, I had interest of 93p paid out, so this is to make it a round figure.
Money put into pots as follows.
£5 into extra rent - this is to add up over the academic year and pay the last weeks rent of the tenancy.
Lost and jabberwocky now have £25 in each pot.
Stolen had £24 in it.

Im wide awake whilst the boys are sleeping in our hotel room. Going to grab a free coffee from the complimentary breakfast shortly whilst they snooze. We've decided to brunch outside the hotel today. 

Not a great deal of sight seeing done so far, as yesterday we concentrated on getting items across to daughters digs that we brought over, which included clothes for when the seasons change - its definitely not Autumn here yet. We have had nice food and drink but need to explore the area more.  We will adress getting out and about today. 

Spendless

And we're home. Finally got to our house around 4pm yesterday. So glad I booked today off work too. I know how long my body takes to recover from long haul flights.

Loved the experience, food, visiting tourist attractions, seeing DD. The highlight of the week was our last full day which was also  Mr S 60th birthday. We did a 2 hour long brunch river cruise. Enjoyed it so much. 

Worst experience other than the inclusive breakfast which had the room set out as though you were at a 1950s UK hol camp, was the show I booked for me and DD to watch. 2 hours of my life I'll never get back! Thankfully, the good times outweighed the bad. 

Can understand why DD finds it expensive, only found delis and tourist shops, very little else. I took her a 3 month (I hope!) supply of toiletries over.  Made me very much appreciate that here you can still buy decent brands of shower gel/shampoo/conditioner etc for £1- £2.

Got a horrible work schedule coming up where Im in every day, some shifts all day. Think its because I couldnt do my full contracted hours before going away so having a mid week to mid week off meant my underworked hours have been adjusted to include for this week. Looking forward to next week when it returns to normal.

Life admin/tasks done this morning. Dental appts made for me and DD. Weve got some plastering our bedroom next week but need a handyman to take down our wardrobe. Contacted the shop we bought wardrobe from (in 2014!) and they are getting their fitter to ring. We should have arranged this before going away but illness of DH followed by myself meant it got overlooked. I also only had a few days left to make an opticians appt or the payment plan for my glasses would stop. Thankfully Ive got an appt for later today, not my usual branch but at least I can fit it in.