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I adore snakehead fritillaries. Well done on being sensible and not doing your joints a further mischiefhttps://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase/p1
'self-blame can be as egotistical as self-praise... any work worth doing is greater than we are... we must not overrate our importance to it, either for good or ill' Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael6 -
Windows open here too, and lots of laundry being done. I'm about to get changed into gardening clothes and try to get the three raised bed kits that are cluttering the place up made and installed.7
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An excellent start to the week here as DS1 passed his driving test. Appointments for tests are hard to come by, and it would have been another six months if he had failed. Between the two of them it cost c£300 per month in lessons for the last two years, plus the various tests so a relief that this has ended. The insurance on their little car is up for renewal in a couple of weeks anyway, they are in no rush to go anywhere so it can wait till then. At least he has two years no claims from his provisional insurance.
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Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 20 months left.6 -
Congrats to DS1, a lot of folk seem to not pass first time5
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That's great news, well done to DS1. My DD did one of those crash driving courses years ago (no pun intended 🤣), cost her a fortune but she passed first time. 2 weeks later she had her first ever epileptic fit and has been unable to drive since!I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)7
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Well done DS1 - a brilliant start to the week, Bravo!Grocery spend March 2026 £161.91/£195
Non-food spend March 2026 £35.93/£80
Bulk Fund 2026 Month 3/12 - £16.48/£114.50 (reducing balance - start £120 pa)
""Mother Nature don't draw straight lines
The broken moulds in a grand design
We look a mess but we're doing fine
We're card carrying lifelong members
Of the union of different kinds..."
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That's fantastic news all round, congratulations to DS1! 😃5
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Congrats to DS1!"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 McGee4
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🥳🥳🥳 yay DS!! Fab news!Emergency Fund goal - £1000/2000
Mortgage OP goal 2026 - £800/£4500
Read 24 books this year 6/24
No Spend March- 11/315
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