Five Year Fix, Five Year Plan

savingholmes

Sorry you've not had the best week off. The weather hasn't been exactly kind. 

LOL at ignoring the spring flowering bulbs - celebrate them - but yes no control in the garden over things like that. 

Merlin's_Beard

Tried to go for a run again today and turned back by a giant lake where the path should have been.... and it's raining again!

Looking through amazon for an ark.

@savingholmes I sort of feel a bit more like a person than I did a week ago, so that's something.

savingholmes

Merlin's_Beard said:

Tried to go for a run again today and turned back by a giant lake where the path should have been.... and it's raining again!

Eeek... I feel desperately sorry for those badly affected by flooding. Glad only you garden got soggy. I dug mini ditches in my first new build garden until the trees and plants were more established and able to soak up the water.

Merlin's_Beard said:

Looking through amazon for an ark.

That made me laugh

Merlin's_Beard said:

@savingholmes I sort of feel a bit more like a person than I did a week ago, so that's something.

It's so easy to get caught up in work and let it consume our lives isn't it? Have you been back to the book club or is it too soon? I signed up to the next set of art classes.

Merlin's_Beard

In fairness my run is down by the side of the river, so it's designed to be a floodplain and doing its job, but still.

Book club is next week!

killerpeaty

I'm also sorry you didn't have the best week off but just having time is great for your health. I don't know how people work 80 hour weeks and survive long term.

Are you affected by flooding in non-floodplain?

What book is next week's?

Merlin's_Beard

@killerpeaty -  thankfully most of the village is off the floodplain, the newer bits on the floodplain are a set of houses that I definitely ruled out even though they've never flooded (plenty of memories of the fields they were built on flooding though!) and industrial estate.

Next weeks book is the woman in black, a properly spooky story that took me forever to read because every time I reached a bit that might have got scary I put it down til morning.

South_coast

Wasn't that made into a film with Daniel Radcliffe 🤔? 

Merlin's_Beard

October roundup:

£1631.80. Nearly £300 back from the taxman in the last 24 hours - cannot work out if this is mileage or pension or what but I'll take it.

Emergency savings fund: £12,000. rebuilding as planned.

Surveys this month: £139.31. Plus a £50 lovetoshop voucher that I'm not really sure whether to add onto YNAB as 'real' money or just use it and write it off. I have done literally nothing special this month except get very lucky.

Food spends: £235.80 - okay. I would have been under budget if I'd gone shopping on wednesday and not today, so..

Books - 6 books bought.3 (The Woman in Black, which I really liked despite not being a horror fan; The Moonstone which was another Victorian mystery; and Tiffany Aching's Guide To Being A Witch which was sweet and easy)

We won't talk about what pensions are  doing this month, we'll ignore it and look at it again when things are better.

Social - quiet this month, but on purpose after a busy September. Needed to rebalance. With a job that involves interacting with people constantly it's always difficult to figure this one out.

Merlin's_Beard

South_coast said:

Wasn't that made into a film with Daniel Radcliffe 🤔? 

It was and I'm never watching it because I remember being terrified by just the trailer when it first came out. It's a touring stage play at the minute as well, and you couldn't pay me to go. I'm sure they're both excellent and I'm sure I don't care 

Thankfully I wasn't the only wimp when we talked about it!

savingholmes

I wouldn't be able to read or watch it either. 

Nice one on the tax refund. It all helps.