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Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻
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I like recipes that encourage me to riff on them … 😉😊
Thank you.
KKAs at 21.05.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £215,607
- OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
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Don't worry about the vagueness - that still sounds yummy and I'll definitely give it a go! It's not a combination I'd have thought to try, so definitely appreciated.Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway5 -
No, I would never have put halloumi in a stew but it's very nice, and very filling so you don't need loads. Freezes well too 😊6
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I'll have to give it a go sometimes as it fits my diet, and I love halloumi!Live the good life where you have been planted.
Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2022 - 15 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2023 - 6 carried over. Fashion on the Ration Challenge 2024 - oops! My Frugal, Thrifty Moneysaving Diary4 -
The recipe looks right up my street Cheery, thanks for sharing 😋Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
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One income, home educating family3 -
Another one that likes the sound of that halloumi stew! Thanks cheery xI've been mortgage free once, so let's do it again!
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Sounds tasty and versatile too3
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Ooh I like the sound of the cheesy stew!3
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Evening all 😊
On the way home from a most lovely weekend party with friends at their house in Wales. Very isolated, fantastic views, excellent company and music and frolics 😊 We slept in their camper van (and now I am trying to contrive a way to have a camper van 😂😂). So lovely 🥰🥰 and very restful, although there were a lot of people there!
4 days of work left before August off 😃 Technically I've booked a day off this week too so I don't lost it, but I'll actually work it and take a day off in early Sept instead 🤫
Not much financial to report. Not spent anything this weekend, although we did just buy sandwiches and tea at the service station 😬 And I just did something I'd been putting off - ordered a insulated properly sealed travel mug (to match the one that Mr C's friend gave him that I've been pinching for work). £23 including postage so not cheap, but we're going to prioritise taking at least one drink with us on summer days out so it can pay for itself 😊
Right, best get the rest of the way home 😊7 -
Halloumi stew sounds ace. I like to bung a parmesan rind from the freezer in when I'm making a beef stew, extra umami 🤤6
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