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  • KajiKita
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    Loving that Miss S is full of beans and you are having a chill moment at the start of your break :) That will be me from tomorrow :)

    Make a list of what food you have in and then you can just shop the gaps?
    Invite yourself elsewhere to be fed by them? ;)
    Use some of your time off and do a bit of Olio or similar? 

    KK
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  • skint_spice
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    beanielou said:
    Also a lot more month left than money…..
    I have not spent any money except for the preplanned nails😇
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  • skint_spice
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    Argghh post disappeared last night! If the rain stops today I will have another go KK!

    Off out to catch up with a friend over breakfast.
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  • KajiKita
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    Thanks :) Don't worry if it's a bother ;) It just sounds very cute ... <3 

    Hope you enjoyed your breakfast. :)

    KK
    As at 15.10.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £229,702
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,345 Estd. interest saved = £5,863 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 62 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 4th November 
    Produce tracker: £426 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. 
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,576 Forumite
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    KajiKita said:
    Thanks :) Don't worry if it's a bother ;) It just sounds very cute ... <3 

    Hope you enjoyed your breakfast. :)

    KK
    I’m trying to do it regularly so she gets used to the idea 😂 she might like the rain as she gets in her water bowl for a paddle way too regularly 😂

    Eggs Benedict 💗 yummy!
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    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • KajiKita
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    Awwww … look at all the colours in her coat - sooooo Cute! 🥰 

    Less of a novelty today, so perhaps more anxious-making? 

    KK
    As at 15.10.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £229,702
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,345 Estd. interest saved = £5,863 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 62 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 4th November 
    Produce tracker: £426 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. 
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