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Both cats and the dog have had their flea treatments. The dog and older cat don’t bat an eyelid but the young cat carried on as if I’d poisoned her. Talking of the young cat, Mr SA rescued a baby mouse from her earlier, looks like she’s found a nest, hope that wasn’t the mother she killed last night 😞I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)4
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3 weeks on Tuesday 🥳Cherryfudge said:Mr SA has done so well! At least, looked at from a resilience point of view, not from a helping in the garden point of view.
Nice to have the money ready for holiday nails and eyebrows - that makes it seem so close!I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)5 -
He was indeed as if it hadn’t been for me insisting it was a brain tumour rather than stress the doctors said it was he wouldn’t be here. I recognised the symptoms from my mom.PennysIntoPounds said:He has been extremely lucky having you. Extremely luckyI get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)7 -
They really don’t know everything do they?Sun_Addict said:He was indeed as if it hadn’t been for me insisting it was a brain tumour rather than stress the doctors said it was he wouldn’t be here. I recognised the symptoms from my mom.Not all who wander are lost - J.R.R.Tolkien
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So this.PennysIntoPounds said:He has been extremely lucky having you. Extremely lucky
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I was thinking more of you not giving him a vigorous mop wash every time he spills something and leaves it for you to clean up etc etc, but yes, your actual life-saving skills too 😁Sun_Addict said:
He was indeed as if it hadn’t been for me insisting it was a brain tumour rather than stress the doctors said it was he wouldn’t be here. I recognised the symptoms from my mom.PennysIntoPounds said:He has been extremely lucky having you. Extremely lucky
In seriousness though, that is a lot of years you've been keeping it together to a standard of productivity most of us can only marvel at, with, as you say, no help and a lot of hindrance, practically and emotionally.
Please make sure you take very good care of you too xhttps://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase
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I agree with this.PennysIntoPounds said:
I was thinking more of you not giving him a vigorous mop wash every time he spills something and leaves it for you to clean up etc etc, but yes, your actual life-saving skills too 😁Sun_Addict said:
He was indeed as if it hadn’t been for me insisting it was a brain tumour rather than stress the doctors said it was he wouldn’t be here. I recognised the symptoms from my mom.PennysIntoPounds said:He has been extremely lucky having you. Extremely lucky
In seriousness though, that is a lot of years you've been keeping it together to a standard of productivity most of us can only marvel at, with, as you say, no help and a lot of hindrance, practically and emotionally.
Please make sure you take very good care of you too x"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee2 -
Another who thinks what you do and manage is amazing. XSeptember 2017 Debt = £25330
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Amazing reading it was only due to your knowledge that the brain tumour was diagnosed when it was.
Hope today is good for you.If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
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Another reader here, who thinks the amount you manage to do whilst seemingly keeping it altogether is amazing2
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