So close, we can smell mortgage freedom!

Cheery_Daff

Happy anniversary! Glad you had a nice time with your friend. What an awful situation she's in xx

Karmacat

Happy Anniversary!  And happy raspberries and lettuce!

I'm glad you could meet up with your friend - it's a nightmare situation, and nothing is ever the same again  

try_harder

Oh yes .Happy Anniversary for yesterday

savingholmes

Congrats on 10 year anniversary. 

Paid employment is very different to freelancing - which is why I'm the former but I do get the attraction of the latter... I need a VA before I could do the latter successfully though and a marketing team

themadvix

Morning all,

Thanks for the anniversary wishes! We ate and drank too much and I felt rather ill briefly, but was fine in the end. The food, as always, was delicious! And sangria is always good It was also less than budgeted for, so some money to move pots

I am now the squad captain (in charge of the team who collects from that particular store) for my Olio collection (I won't go into details, but suffice to say it was long overdue that the previous one left). I was meant to collect this morning but I went and there wasn't anything, despite receiving a message to the contrary. Never mind. My main client is also all caught up at the moment, so the pressure is off a bit today. I've done some more Cambridge work and the plumber is coming to service the boiler shortly. I will head to the zero-waste shop and Lidl once he's done his thing. 

At last we've got to a weekend with not much in the way of plans. Going to my sister's on Sunday for a belated Fathers' Day meal (I think, I've not heard anything recently!), but otherwise it'll be pottering at home and the allotment, I think. Some bits to get on ebay (still), so hopefully there's an offer for listings this weekend. There'll be pink currants to pick at the allotment, those edamame beans to get in somewhere, a plum to prune and all the usual (and I'll try to persuade Mr MV to come and finish the shed roof too).

My cat sitting client for next week has shifted her trip by a day, so I'm now not starting until Tuesday, which suits me better as we're off to Wimbledon on Monday with hospitality (Mr MV's work), which will be great! I have a hospital appointment Tuesday and there's my friend's funeral on Wednesday (and have been urged to go to the pub afterwards), so I'm glad to have got fairly caught up with work!

MS things:
*Milk for today and Monday has been cancelled/shifted to Wednesday
* Ebay sale means I'll turn some more stamps into cash (and 1 large 1st class and 2 standard 1st class exactly equal in-store small parcel postage, so it's very efficient!)
* Have chased US client again about payment 🙄
* Submitted time sheet for Cambridge for this week, but friend/supervisor is OOO now, so won't get paid next week either!
* Clicks done

Gratitudes:
* Anniversary wishes from people (after I reminded my mother 🙄)
* A lovely meal and a lovely evening with Mr MV 🥰 - looked back at photos which is always entertaining
* A bit of a gentler day today (that said, there's plenty I should be doing!)

Have a good afternoon all!

Karmacat

Ouch at the reminder needed!  But I'm glad you had a good day 🍾 and it sounds like your weekend might slow down a teensy bit.  Nice one  

savingholmes

The allotment plans sounds my fave bit of your weekend. I managed 20 minutes in the garden today. It's a start!

themadvix

So much for pottering today, I’d forgotten that I’d promised to go to park run with Mr MV… he dragged me virtually kicking and screaming (i.e. proper grumpy), but i actually quite enjoyed it, didn’t stop running and set a really good time (for me - not the course record! 🤣). Actually the first time I’ve run a full 5km and the first time I’ve run in 18 months….

 Doing that after a bad night’s sleep pretty much wiped me out though. We have hoovered, cut front lawn, potted on psb, seen old neighbour who popped back to hear about our holiday 😊 and done some washing… We’re going to have a bbq for dinner and have invited BIL and SIL but they have, as usual, not replied to our WhatsApp 🙄

 I’m about to see if a DVD player from the in-laws loft will come to life so I can flog it for them. Hoping Mr MV will do the same with a record player also from the loft. Haven’t been to allotment 😏 I may pop down tomorrow (after badminton!) and get those beans in the ground. I’m sure it’s all looking after itself fine though.

Jessy103

Well done on the 5km run! 🙂

savingholmes

5K sounds good.