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An in-between phase

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  • EssexHebridean
    EssexHebridean Posts: 24,789 Forumite
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    Blackcats said:
    Indeed @beanielou. Still, hopefully we'll win enough to buy a house in North London on the PBs tomorrow 🤞
    Better still you win enough to buy you and your mum houses in South London 😉
    😂 I'm dreaming big @Blackcats, I want to be within walking distance of a manky tube to be crammed up against all the sweaty coughy wrong un's 😁
    Anyway my mum would never move Sarf, she came from there and she ain't going back! 
    Your Mum is a very sensible woman - North of the river all the way! 
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  • doingitanyway
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    Really good idea to be within walking distance of the tube @PennysIntoPounds manky or not. I'm 5 minutes walk from the station and it makes such a difference...
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  • PennysIntoPounds
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    £125 on the PB, thank you Ernie

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  • foxgloves
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    Well done Ernie! At least somebody in my social circle (albeit online) experienced some PB largesse!
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    What is mousenip and where on your person do you have it …? 🤔 You seem to be absolutely irresistible to them! 😳🙄

    Yaay for the PB win 😊

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  • PennysIntoPounds
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    Mousenip is a Victorian building in the hands of social housing @KajiKita!
    Thank you, always a relief to get any money to put into the pots 
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  • beanielou
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    Good news on the win. Boo to the pesky visitor. 
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