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An in-between phase

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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,627 Forumite
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    We can still be friends @foxgloves, I'll take the nice bits of your post and I will also have your beans x
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  • PennysIntoPounds
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    Lots of build admin including email to brokers who want nearly £700 extra from us. We know we have no choice but to pay it but we agreed I was allowed one email politely telling them they're idiots first, to soothe my feelings. This has turned into several emails where things have got more and more opaque as they keep saying things that are clearly b*llocks, such as 'we wouldn't have provided a reinstatement figure' to which I've been compelled to ask 'then why does it say Reinstatement Cost' on the document we've paid you over two grand for?'

    Half wussy situps
    Shower and hairwash
    Ten minute carpet walk
    Prepped cheesy potatoes for dinner
    Walk with Mr PIP to local with camra discount to work/admin from pub
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  • KajiKita
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    edited 31 July at 7:35PM
    PiP the more I read about this while process, the more surreal and disconnected from reality it seems to become … I am mentally flip flopping over here, at a distance! I can’t imagine what it’s like to engage with in person …. 😳

    The cheesy potatoes and beer sound like comforting re-sets 😊

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  • PennysIntoPounds
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    It is as insane as you are feeling @KajiKita but xf*cktons (definitely a number) from several more angles. Thank goodness for booze and carbs. 
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  • doingitanyway
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    Haha booze and carbs is a good name for a band.
    You are doing great, especially given the crap time you have been having of late
    I hope you have something decent/or indecent to look forward this weekend
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  • PennysIntoPounds
    PennysIntoPounds Posts: 4,627 Forumite
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    Heal

    Money into current account, flat pot, Christmas pot
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  • Sun_Addict
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    Great aims there 🙂
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  • beanielou
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    Heal

    Money into current account, flat pot, Christmas pot
    Healing is good.
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  • Watty1
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    Definitely heal. Sending love for that.
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
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