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Bored? You’re that strong??! Fair dos! 😊 I’m usually clinging on by my fingernails through the wobbling! 😂
KK
As at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- 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
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.3 -
Been a somewhat curate’s egg day …
Great day in work:
Compliments / positive feedback from two customers we have let down in various ways in the past. 😊💪
Technical manager finally starting to ‘get’ how I can make life easier for and help him … 😉However:
Forgot that I was having a box of books collected today, so the trip to the agricultural city that I have been trying to do for months for finding new work trousers and to spend some MnS vouchers, didn’t happen, once again.
I am absolutely bone tired today. Not sure if it’s physical or mental but I think I need another rest day tomorrow, rather than doing training.
Mr KK has an infected cyst on his back which has not responded to ABs this week, so we are off to the local hospital in the industrial city near us for surgery to cut it out tomorrow morning. Notnhow either of us wanted to spend our Saturday. Ho hum …
Been such a good week up until this afternoon 🤷♀️KK
As at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- 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
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.6 -
Can you go shopping while Mr KK is 'otherwise occupied' or maybe park him in the S&M cafe while you look at work trousers for half an hour? Shame to go all that way and not get what you wanted.
It must be nice to be rid of the book box, and nice that things are going well at work. It always surprises me that people don't really know what other people in the same workplace, or even the same office, are actually for. But then I am a nosey blighter who asks what people actually do!
Well done on surviving until Friday. Happy weekend, one week til payday!
Blessedly short, the month of February, but why does it have to be so flippin' wet??? Quack!
4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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Sadly not @f0xh0les - the hospital is nowhere near the city centre, we won’t get to it until 10 am when parking will already be difficult, parking will also be difficult in the city and Mr KK will expect me to wait so we can hightail it out of there as soon as we possibly can once they let him go …! (To be fair I would feel the same.)
I am planning strategies:
- Cushion as the d@mn chairs are soooo uncomfortable! (I know them well after his kidney stone episode!)
- The latest gardener’s world mag I picked up today 😊
- The novel I’m reading atm
- Food and water … (Mr KK has to go in nil by mouth as he may have to have a GA …)KK
As at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- 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
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.4 -
Oh that is annoying! Glad you are well prepared!
What is it with hospital chairs? I was convinced I just had a weirdly shaped butt, but it seems they are actually designed that way!
4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******1 -
I find it’s the back support that’s the worst issue - there’s something about the proportions of these that means your lumber spine sags (well mine does 😂😉) - I’ve had pretty bad back ache after Mr KK’s two kidney stone episodes ….
KK
As at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- 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
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.4 -
Oh, forgot to mention … Dispatch manager abruptly hurtled into my office part way through this morning looking stressed and anxious …
Our defibrillator I had installed a few months ago, was called on this morning for someone at the garage next door when they rang the 999 service. They didn’t use the shock function, just used the pads for the system to track how the casualty’s heart was behaving until the ambulance arrived. Good to be able to help a neighbour but oh my word, it made my heart lurch when my colleague started with ‘The defib’s been deployed!!’ 😳😂KK
As at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- 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
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.7 -
Oh and I rescued a ladybird today from the basin of the ladies loo 😊❤️ Popped it (her?) outside under the silver birch tree outside reception.
KK
As at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- 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
Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May.
Produce tracker: £108 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.4 -
Oddly enough, I rescued a ladybird too - it was on my sleeve in a cafe and I relocated it to a municipal planter outside.
Didn't have to deploy a defibrillator though, well done you for having it installed!
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That must’ve been scary deploying the defibrillator. I hope the casualty is ok now.
Good news about the rescued 🐞 Don’t they get into some awkward places!I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)1
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