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Ooh KC, that makes you a millionaire! How exciting! :T
Round yellow thing has disappeared here again today hope it's still with you. Your gardening sounds very productive - little and often is a very satisfying approach, I find. Must do some myself today, as forecast tomorrow is rain again.Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
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Oh, well done for doing it :T. Really interesting isn't it? Hopefully it will give you the confidence to loosen the purse-strings a little .Wow, 1 million! Guess that's pretty solvent?Ooh KC, that makes you a millionaire! How exciting! :T
I can't emphasize enough that this depends on day-to-day living expenses being at state pension levels.2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
wishingthemortgaheaway wrote: »I saw the round yellow thing in the sky too. Hooray, does anyone think it will hang around formlong?Hope so1 million is indeed pretty solvent :j :jGlad you're enjoying the sun and your spreadsheet Karma:). Happy Thursday to you xx
My laptop gave me a scare this morning - I'd set a reminder on my phone to back it up, with all this scanning I've been doing, and when I switched it on, all my files and folders had disappeared :eek: and so had the bookmarks on my browser ... horror doesn't begin to describe it (:D this has a happy ending, btw). Turns out my "User1" persona has just disappeared off the computer. No idea how. Eventually I went to the "Karmacat" persona and found all my documents :beer: so I got my external hard drive and backed everything up right away .... ran a security scan, and it tells me everything's fine, so I've no idea what happened. Just goes to show something ... never trust electronics, I guess! But wow. It was heartstopping for a moment there!2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
We'll all be name-dropping like mad, KC, knowing someone who's a millionaire and a published author:j. And a published photographer too I seem to recall;). I hope everything turns out well for you, KC and you get to enjoy lots of wonderful memory-making holidays in the years to come:beer:.
The house-price postcode lottery never ceases to amaze and annoy me:eek:. In our neck of the woods our detached 4 bedroom house with 3 reception rooms, 24 foot long kitchen (which isn't a combined diner-type), almost half an acre of land and garaging for up to 4 cars would be hard pressed to achieve what your house would get. Admittedly it needs a bit of updating with electrical wiring, some work on subsidence cracks (which a surveyor has said are not crucial to the property's stability:j) and a new kitchen but otherwise it's a good, sound property with lots of potential which would be a good buy. I've made it sound a bit of a dump with all its defects:o but even equally big newer houses in tip-top condition rarely hit £300K round here. It doesn't help that we are over 3 miles from a main road and have absolutely no public transport except a very sporadic service on that road. The nearest train station is about 16 miles away:(0 -
I hope so too :beer: it's kind of around right now
Thanks both! Happy Thursday, and Happy Friday
My laptop gave me a scare this morning - I'd set a reminder on my phone to back it up, with all this scanning I've been doing, and when I switched it on, all my files and folders had disappeared :eek: and so had the bookmarks on my browser ... horror doesn't begin to describe it (:D this has a happy ending, btw). Turns out my "User1" persona has just disappeared off the computer. No idea how. Eventually I went to the "Karmacat" persona and found all my documents :beer: so I got my external hard drive and backed everything up right away .... ran a security scan, and it tells me everything's fine, so I've no idea what happened. Just goes to show something ... never trust electronics, I guess! But wow. It was heartstopping for a moment there!
I'm so glad that your technology problem had a happy ending:T:j. I know only too well the scary, panicky feeling when something goes wrong with devices that we depend upon so much.0 -
Goldie, I've just had a look through my subscriptions, and you're right, it seems to have disappeared it must be one of the ones that the mse bot deleted
I think its awful that Squirell's diary has just *gone*. I think it dated back to about 2010, and all that history just disappeared into the ether.
Unbelievably, my diary is 4 years old tomorrow.
I'm not so bothered about most of it, but the period April - December 2014 turned out to be a momentous period in my life as I was diagnosed with Meniere's and made the big decision about my retirement. I wouldn't like to lose all that, so I'm thinking of copying my posts into a word document for that periodEarly retired - 18th December 2014
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carbootcrazy wrote: »We'll all be name-dropping like mad, KC, knowing someone who's a millionaire and a published author:j. And a published photographer too I seem to recall;). I hope everything turns out well for you, KC and you get to enjoy lots of wonderful memory-making holidays in the years to come:beer:.The house-price postcode lottery never ceases to amaze and annoy me:eek:. In our neck of the woods our detached 4 bedroom house with 3 reception rooms, 24 foot long kitchen (which isn't a combined diner-type), almost half an acre of land and garaging for up to 4 cars would be hard pressed to achieve what your house would get. Admittedly it needs a bit of updating with electrical wiring, some work on subsidence cracks (which a surveyor has said are not crucial to the property's stability:j) and a new kitchen but otherwise it's a good, sound property with lots of potential which would be a good buy. I've made it sound a bit of a dump with all its defects:o but even equally big newer houses in tip-top condition rarely hit £300K round here. It doesn't help that we are over 3 miles from a main road and have absolutely no public transport except a very sporadic service on that road. The nearest train station is about 16 miles away:(
I'm pretty sure now I've been catastrophising sorry all! But it just goes to show how valuable that spreadsheet has been. Once again, I'm mightily impressed.carbootcrazy wrote: »I'm so glad that your technology problem had a happy ending:T:j. I know only too well the scary, panicky feeling when something goes wrong with devices that we depend upon so much.Goldiegirl wrote: »I think its awful that Squirell's diary has just *gone*. I think it dated back to about 2010, and all that history just disappeared into the ether.
Unbelievably, my diary is 4 years old tomorrow.I'm not so bothered about most of it, but the period April - December 2014 turned out to be a momentous period in my life as I was diagnosed with Meniere's and made the big decision about my retirement. I wouldn't like to lose all that, so I'm thinking of copying my posts into a word document for that period2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
Glad you're solvent KC :j :j Good job we all have a lot of practice with MSE style spending I say
Hope you manage to get out in the garden for a bit today if that's on your plan :j Sun shone here for a few minutes this afternoon :j :j Most exciting0 -
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It's horrible, isn't it, Goldie. I was linked up to her blog at some stage, do you have the url?
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I've got the blog address still, if you'd like it PM'd, Kc. No new posts though. And Squirrel's not been active on here for almost 2 months xI am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £200 -
But even half what I have now is a lot better than I thought would happen, I thought I'd be in a studio flat in a cheap part of Liverpool, to be honest with you.
But wouldn't that make it the posh end at that juncture?"Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
"We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
"Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky." OMD 'Julia's Song'0
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