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Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend
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Ash has decided he's going to take it easy until the lamb appears.
2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
2) To read 100 books (36/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 6.8kg/30kg
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)21 -
Awwwwww how beautiful5
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He’s beautiful 😻I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)4
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cats are so wise - great decision by Ash to rest and relax today (and likely every day)
glad you are feeling a bit better. We've started colds here - slight sore throats and runny noses, just in time to chant the rhyme that my children used to snigger at ..
If you see an Easter bunny with a nose that is runny
don't think it's funny cos it-snot
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This is my youngest cat yesterday sleeping in a pot of newly planted sweet peas grown from seed since October 😬
I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)14 -
Oooh! I planted up two dahlia cappuccino tubers yesterday! 😊
@Sun_Addict - they just know don’t they! 🙄😂😉
KKAs at 15.08.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £232,244
- OPs to mortgage = £12,048 Interest saved £5,675 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 43 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 17th August
Produce tracker: £276 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.6 -
Beautiful cat SA4
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My poor rhubarb is looking a bit feeble this year so I am envious of your abundance. It might just be lacking in food or possibly it needs moving again. I haven’t managed to read any diaries this week so I missed the earlier events but I’m glad to hear that you received some treatment for the kidney infection and will also get the referrals that you need via the GP. I hope the IBS symptoms calm down too. I am a fellow sufferer of that and sometimes it can feel like there is no rhyme or reason to what goes on with it.Good to hear of most of the plant babies are growing nicely. I am in a very mild area but we have had some extremely cold nights lately and actually resorted to bringing some plants indoors.Boundaries and neighbours can be a tricky challenge so well done on managing to come up with a harmonious arrangement.It’s always a pleasure to read your “garden ramblings” 😊 Happy Easter to you and Mr F.Loving the cat photos 😍6
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Thanks all. Well, we are a bit stymied by the weather today we as we'd intended today as our Easter gardening day. I could hear the rain clattering on the conservatory roof at 5am, & it hasn't really stopped since then & I don't know whether it's likely to dry up later.
Ah well, always plenty to do. Mr F is going to help me swap some kitchen/conservatory furniture over for the summer season & I have yesterday's roast lamb to divide.up for other meals. Definitely lamb bhuna today, with some for the freezer, but it's possible it might stretch further than that, as there's quite a lot left.
And I shall need to bake a loaf of bread & get some laundry churning. Not a lot of pegging out days over this coming week by the looks of the forecast, so shall have to suck up heated airer costs.
F x
2025's challenges: 1) To fill our 10 Savings Pots to their healthiest level ever
2) To read 100 books (36/100) 3) The Shrinking of Foxgloves 6.8kg/30kg
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards" (Soren Kirkegaard 1813-55)11 -
Same here re the weather. DH was supposed to be working with another chap in the village to replace a shed roof (using the off-cuts from our shed roof replacement. We are charging £60 for the materials that would otherwise have cost double thatSave £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here7
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