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An in-between phase
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Marking your mum's birthday with yellow flowers is lovely @ladyholly.
I do the same trying not to specifically remember dates of deaths, I mark the first year anniversary then I try to let the date fade gently into the time of year and the turning of the seasons, it seems the right way about. I know I miss them without needing to be reminded to, and to be frank the calendar would have very little space for anything other than grieving and I don't believe our dead loved ones want us to join them in death while we're still alive. Got to live and enjoy while we have the opportunity even if the cloak of sadness gains more patches to wear as the years go byhttps://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase
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Dreamt build admin dreams
Free exercise of half wussy situps
Lots of build admin
Usuals
Prepped cheesy potatoes with baked tomatoes for dinner
Walk with Mr PIP to pub, to further discuss build admin 😁
Happy Sunday all, no bad vibes allowed 🍻
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Well done on the build admin (this auto corrected to ‘boiled’ admin initially! 😂) but dreams of it …?? Oh dear! I hope every party in the dream was civil, professional, effective and efficient! 😉😊
< wanders over to PiP’s with a bottle of Henderson’s Relish for a dinner of cheesy potatoes and baked tomatoes …> 😉
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Another tasty meal...Henderson's relish is an excellent additionIf 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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Oh obviously @KajiKita 😂
Help yerself to grub, glad you're bringing your own sauces, I don't even know what Hendersons relish is..
I would rather be dreaming sweeter things @beanielou but I always wake up tired after a night's sleep as so much goes on in dreamland, so I trust my brain that it is super busy processing necessaries!https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase
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Henderson’s relish is the veggie version of Worcester sauce 😊
KKAs at 15.09.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £230,969
- OPs to mortgage = £12,345 Estd. interest saved = £5,863 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 56 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 4th October
Produce tracker: £417 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.1 -
'Remember' by Christina Rossetti is one of my preferred poems, and the last lines of 'better by far that you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad' always stuck in my head.My mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error. Please reinstall universe and reboot+++
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Wow that year since your friend passed has flown! My mom used to love Henderson’s relish, I think you could only get it in Yorkshire at one stage and she used to stock up when she visited her sister up there. Now I believe you can get it anywhere. It’s mentioned a lot in Pinch of Nom recipes.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)1
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Thank you for my education @KajiKita, apparently everyone else, well @doingitanyway and @Sun_Addict knows this!
Well that has got me right between the heart strings and given me a little cry @redofromstart. What an utterly mad old world eh. I'm proud of us all that we're even half sane given the circumstances of being human let alone owt elsehttps://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase
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