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Simple living in the country - back to basics
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At least today will be the day that it is done!
You will enjoy Call The Midwife
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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.7 -
Cheery I have 4 hens in a small run which leads to a larger run. I guess I am still ok to let them into the larger run? I didn't hear anything about birdflu here (yet).8
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Ooh, good! 😊😊 I was most vexed at the cliffhanger last week!beanielou said:At least today will be the day that it is done!
You will enjoy Call The Midwife
Where are you earthgirl? The whole of the UK has been under a housing under since the end of November - hens (even just a few in backyards) should be kept in runs (the idea is to stop mixing with wild birds - so small mesh and a roof to stop droppings from wild birds getting through). Not sure what the measures are elsewhere, although it's been quite harsh throughout Europe too. Search for Defra avian flu if in the UK. If yours aren't usually free range anyway, you might not need to make any changes.earthgirl2 said:Cheery I have 4 hens in a small run which leads to a larger run. I guess I am still ok to let them into the larger run? I didn't hear anything about birdflu here (yet).
Need to stop coming in here, and get the final bits done. Procrastination central round here today! 😂😂
Definitely having some kind of a treat after this. Then it's straight onto healthy eating and exercise - stood on the scales this morning and I've put on 2 stone in the last 18 months 😮😮 and 4 stone in the last few years 😮 Before anyone says it, yes I know scales aren't the be all and end all, but I can assure you those extra stones are NOT muscle 😂😂 I've been relatively fit and healthy before so I know what it feels like - and this is NOT it. 🙄
But still, priorities. Form, bath, cake (or maybe cake then bath), and THEN sorting my life out 😂8 -
Another one who has put on 2 stone in 2 years
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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.8 -
😕 It's hard to do something about it, isn't it? But, for me at least, being this overweight is hard too. Lack of energy, huffing and puffing going upstairs, struggling to bend over properly to tie my shoes, not even wanting to go for a walk because it feels like too much effort.
Not beating myself up here, it's been a tough couple of years, lots of it without a kitchen. More acknowledging that I want to move on from feeling like this now!
Mr Cheery is doing me a final edit while I make some lunch (noodles, peppers, and black beans). Then it's GOING, and we might see if there's space in the cafe for a cake 😁9 -
Well, I don't know how that tooknearly another 3 hours 😮😂 but finally IT'S IN!!! 😁😁😁😁 And we are in the cafe, having stuffed ourselves with cake 😁😁
Gosh I am relieved (although I think for the next few hours I'll be raking through it in my head, convinced I've missed something important).
Right, supplies, then a nice bath 😁15 -
Woo hoo - well done you!!🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her7 -
Lockdown has been unkind to my weight too. Like you cheery, I really feel it too and it’s making me uncomfortable. I never really lost the baby weight last time, then lockdown happened when Bambi was 1 and I put on another 1.5st…Part time working mum | Married in 2014 | DS born 2015 & DD born 2018
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6542225/stopping-the-backsliding-a-family-of-four-no-longer-living-beyond-their-means/p1?new=1
Consumer debt free!
Mortgage: -£128,033
Savings: £6,050
- Emergency fund £1,515
- New kitchen £556
- December £420
- Holiday £3,427
- Bills £132
Total joint pension savings: £55,4257 -
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
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.6 -
Well done Cheery, that must be a wonderful feeling!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway6
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