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here is the link to the Peter Cook sketch Humdinger1 was talking about - http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~currie/frog.htm
The menu bit is about half way down. It's not so much that it hasn't aged well - it's more that the sketch was a little green around the gills to start withI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine2 -
To do list
I need to buy a spray bottle and some magnesium
I will make some soup for lunch
I will buy some ground almonds (baking a cake on Monday)
Veggie curry for supper so looking for a swede I can mash to go with it. I need to avoid the dreaded white rice as it is very bad for blood sugar control. didn't make a curry as got loads of YS salad so had that instead!
Did ok with yesterday's list
Today helped housemate clean the house then off to the creative club to eat a frog for a friend. Another one that has been hanging over me for months. Done now
Nice being at the creative club but takes ages to get here from where I live now. Expensive too for fares so took my flask to offset coffee costs.
I've seen a house in exactly the right area. It hasn't gone because the shower room is off the kitchen and the floor with 3 bedrooms has no bathroom, not even a loo. It is the same basic house as the one I lost but they had put in a big bathroom in the smallest bedroom, making it a two bed house same as the one I lost. Also the dining and living room are separate and I would want it knocked through. Will see it next week. More work than I would have liked, but doable, if they are willing to price negotiate. If not I will wait. The right house will come along
Hope everyone is having a good day.If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 3501000
Buffer fund 0/100
Debt Free (again) 25/0720254 -
How exciting about being shortlisted for the job. Keeping everything crossed for you 🙏🤞I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)3
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House sounds good, if it all works3
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Good luck with everything. Good you are working through your list.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.8K Equity 36.37%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £27.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 34/£127.5K target 26.6% 10/10/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 60.35K or 47.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5K updated 10/10/252 -
Well done taming the frog population and going to the club, while offsetting costs.
The house sounds interesting, on paper a fair amount of work, but with the potential to be what you're looking for.
Everything is crossed for the role.Mortgage started 2020, aiming to clear 31/12/2029.3 -
All your frog-eating inspired me to go and see if the rare natterjack toads had been tempted out by this afternoon's sunshine. Not yet, but it was a very pleasant walk through the pine woods and back along the very sandy path which ups the exercise quota. They usually emerge around late February/early March.What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?4
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Thanks @Sun_Addict @WelshmansDaughter @savingholmes
Thanks @satchmo1 sounds lovely where you are. Unlike the Natterjack, my frogs appear all year long
Thanks @MovingForwards you are right it was a lot of work potentially and in the end I left it!
So following on from the house...the soil stacks did not line up so moving the bathroom would have been too much aggro. In the end I cancelled the viewing. The search for a house goes on...
Seeing lots of family over the past few days. Nice but somehow tiring...I think it is the travel that does it.
I've convinced myself I need a white shirt for my interview, so off to find one tomorrow.
I saw a film with a friend, first for a year. It was called Women Talking and the performances were amazing. I want to see a film once a month from now on. I do love film.
I have lots of nieces and nephews. I usually give them money for birthdays. I need to get a bit organised with this. It would be nice to have a 'pot' for birthday presents. I don't tend to give for Christmas. I also stop when they have good jobs. How do others manage this?
It seems busy all of a sudden. I've been invited to 3 things at the weekend. Going to phone a friend and politely decline 2 of them. Partly money, but more because I don't want to.
All major frogs have been dispatched so going to make a list of smaller frogs over the next few days!
Hope everyone is ok
If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 3501000
Buffer fund 0/100
Debt Free (again) 25/0720255 -
I stop when either 18 or 21.
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