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I suspect most of those dismissing Covid as "just a cold" have also routinely referred to a bad cold as "flu". I also suspect very few of those people have ever actually HAD flu, or they'd know the difference!🎉 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
Balance as at 31/08/25 = £ 95,450.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her5 -
I agree with all of the above but am too knackered to put a proper post on. Hope I feel a bit more lively tomorrow. Just slowly sipped a dessertspoonful of blackberry vinegar & I don't think I've been hacking quite so violently since then.
F xx2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
2) To read 100 books (46/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 8.1kg/30kg
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)7 -
and that's when you know you are truly ill, when you can't even be bothered to do stuff online or look at a screen. Get better soon. xfoxgloves said:I agree with all of the above but am too knackered to put a proper post on. Hope I feel a bit more lively tomorrow. Just slowly sipped a dessertspoonful of blackberry vinegar & I don't think I've been hacking quite so violently since then.
F xxMaking the debt go down and savings go up
LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £27,644....its going down
Mortgage Free December 9th 2024! 18mths ahead of schedule.Challenges
EF #68 £950/£3000
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Studies/surveys December £75.87
Decluttering items 1395/2025
Books read 22
Jigsaws done 18
My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up3 -
Get well soon. I am hoping I can avoid covid again . I dont seem to be on the list for a jab any more despite breathing problems but I will speak to the nurse when I have my flu jab on Saturday.2
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I booked mine though the NHS as I had an email from them. The GP had only offered a flu jab so we booked at our local pharmacy where we've had them for the last few years. They just asked why I was eligible for the Covid one and I said COPD and she was happy to give it to me.
Have you had an email from NHS? If you have it's worth booking that way.
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Mine comes via a text, but it is a month before my booking!1
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Hope the Covid beggars off asap. Feel better soon2
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Walked passed my doctors yesterday and there was a large queue of people so think they have started the flu jabs.:j Debtfree and and staying that way.:j3-6 month emergency fund, No.61 £140.002
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Hope you feel better soon @foxgloves“the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings.”
Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One1 -
Hope today has been a better day and you are much better x1
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