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Quantaqa

@Topscooby, I am so sorry to hear about your wife. It's completely understandable why you've not been on here. Much more important things going on in real life. Sending you deepest condolences and I will keep Angie in my prayers as requested xx

Metrocammell

#30 Reporting £2056.83 for June.

Hellesbelles

@Topscooby Your wife is in my prayers, as are you. Remember to take care of yourself xxx

enthusiasticsaver

@Topscooby So sorry to hear of the death of your wife. What a shock for you at such a young age. Take care and hope you are coping ok.

Sandyra

#32 here; £1500 for June

@Topscooby my deepest sympathy

juststuff123

#21 reporting for June: £1931

MrsG2006

#40 £805.74 for me for June savings please. Many thanks

Suffolk_lass

As we enter the second half of the year (well, a week in) most of the June declarations are in. We are collectively at just over 60% of our target but as a month, June is over £9k behind the total, averaged across the year. There are a few people MIA for two months or more (RL is mostly the thing, but some forget to post, or forget they even signed up). I've left people in. Some reappear, and of course some just don't.

I'm rambling. Sorry. I'm up with the larks as I have called for the Defra (APHA) bee inspector as I believe one of my honey bee colonies has a notifiable disease. If it's as bad as I think, they will have to be culled. It's not my fault or theirs, but the reality of keeping livestock. It's important to stop it spreading. We are meeting this morning at 07.00 so that he can take and send a sample to the Lab for testing. Nothing to do with savings, and the equipment is insured. It got me up at 04.30 this morning and I'm feeling very sad. A colony of bees is about £300 locally, plus the honey and wax you lose. Anyway. Onwards we go

linz

Sorry for your loss @Topscooby :(

I feel a bit of a fraud this month and am a bit all over the place with what to declare this month.

Last month my car was written off in a non fault accident and I got the settlement figure a couple of weeks ago. I decided to only put some of it towards a new car and have bought it on PCP instead. Feels strange getting a car on finance, i've never done it before, always saved up and bought something outright but the leftover money will come in handy for some big house projects (which is where my previous months savings also went.) If the community feel it is ok to declare this leftover money as savings then my total for July is £8019.

Suffolk_lass

I think that is absolutely fine @linz and I have added it to your total in the spreadsheet. It's always a PITA when something like this happens and I hope you are OK