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  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    Congratulations !
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    Well done, you two!
    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 1993
  • gallygirl
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    How exciting :j, so your adventures continue :T:T:T:T
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
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  • gallygirl wrote: »
    How exciting :j, so your adventures continue :T:T:T:T

    Thanks, yes, we have got four jobs today between us. As well as the agency housesittng work, a friend rang and asked if we would look after their daughter's dog for four days (a Staffie) and they would pay ,also my husband has taken on an extra musical gig for £50 a time, and he is dioing some DIY for someone at £7.50 an hour. :)

    We are very blessed. And it was sos obviously right to return to the UK :)
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
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  • donny-gal
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    Pleased everything is working out for you two 7DW. DG
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    Why is it I have less time now I am retired then when I worked?
  • Just to say our son's flat purchase has completed today and he has moved in. We now have our house to ourselves. Bliss! My husband has already stripped down to his underpants. Halfway down our second bottle of wine. :)
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
    Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    erm ...... congratulations (I think ;)) :D
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • Errata wrote: »
    erm ...... congratulations (I think ;)) :D

    Definitely! (Just finished said bottle of wine). :D
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
    Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
  • donny-gal
    donny-gal Posts: 4,661 Forumite
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    Just to say our son's flat purchase has completed today and he has moved in. We now have our house to ourselves. Bliss! My husband has already stripped down to his underpants. Halfway down our second bottle of wine. :)

    Must have the the Central Heating turn up too high! DG;)
    Member #8 of the SKI-ers Club
    Why is it I have less time now I am retired then when I worked?
  • droopsnout
    droopsnout Posts: 3,620 Forumite
    My husband has already stripped down to his underpants.
    Too much detail!!

    Seriously, that's great. Sounds like you've just moved into your first house!
    Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 1993
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