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Hope all goes well and congratulations to the happy couple ๐พ๐Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 ยฃ14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) ยฃ72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!2 -
I love that you needed reinforcements due to unforeseen nail difficulties! Hope it was as magic as it sounds!3
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Hope everyone had a wonderful day.ยJune 2025 - part 1 - ยฃ19,145 part 2 - ยฃ21,973 Total - ยฃ41,118 29 months to go!2
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Thank you everyone for the kind wishes ๐ The wedding was amazing! The delay in posting is because I caught Covid and have been quite Iโll with it so unable to do much, still in bed but feeling a bit better this morning.ยIt all went very well, the ceremony had me and dh crying as well as a lot of ds2โs friends which was sweet. The speeches had me on edge ๐ ds1 was best man with no need to write it prior and he had had few beers first ๐ฑ he did what was basically a hilarious half hour chat about them, which was quite rude but luckily nice at the end ๐
I spent a lot of time trying to speak to most people but got in a lot of dancing too, the boys mates dont leave the dance floor all night, so I changed into scruffy trainers early on, great fun!ยThe honeymoon is Saturday so Iโm isolating on the top floor with a still negative dh sleeping in the spare room on an air bed and avoiding them just incase. They have left the details until the last minute and cheap parking at Heathrow is sold out as re all the cheap hotels, combined with the airport delays I think they may be best to arrive by tube a few hours early, u less dh is still clear and can drive, flights at 6am ๐ฑ they also need an observed Covid test to get on ship but with stopovers they arrived just in time so itโs a bit risky to test at the dock, another ยฃ79 each before they go ๐ฉMFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! ๐๐3 -
If they havenโt booked their observed LFTs I get mine (for the US) from project screen and theyโve been about ยฃ30. The backup plan is LAMP tests from HaloVerify at T5 with a 90 minute result time, but they donโt open until 7am so wouldnโt work for them same day.ยPleased to hear the wedding went well, but sorry to hear you have covid.2
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The wedding sounds absolutely perfect, NG. I'm so glad it went well. How long until the next one???
Sorry to hear you've been ill, the latest version does seem to knock people out a lot more ๐ Hopefully you're over the worst of it now xMortgage start: ยฃ65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ!!! In 5 years, 1 month andย 29 days
Total amount repaid: ยฃ72,307.03. ยฃ1.10 repaid for every ยฃ1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!2 -
Glad the wedding went well.Sounds like a brilliant day. So sorry to hear your suffering from covid xx2025 Decluttering 10472โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ
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Yes sorry to hear youve been quite poorly but glad you had a wonderful day all of you3
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Sorry to hear you're not well NG - weddings do seem to be hotbeds for Covid though. I hope the bride and groom stay clear of it. I'd second Greenbee's comment about tests - we'll be booking with Project screen for our observed lfts before the US (if they haven't changed the rules before then).
Very glad to hear it was an excellent day though!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! ยฃ132,500 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 Hemingway2 -
MV - it's definitely easier to do the observed LFT. I did the LAMP at T5 because there was a powercut (thanks Eunice...) during my LFT! It was touch and go as to whether I'd get results in time to board, but I did. However producing 1ml of spit was hard work...ย3
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