Hello Friends, Today, 1st September 2014, we made the last payment on our mortgage. After all this time, I can’t quite believe we have got there. We have managed to pay it off 5 years early and I feel like … Continue reading
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Hello Friends, We live in an old house with lots of single glazed windows. Some of the windows have the original wavy Victorian glass, so we’ve tried to preserve this wherever possible. Other than the odd window which has been … Continue reading
Hello Friends, I seem to be writing a lot about saving energy at the moment. This is because energy costs seem to be gobbling up more and more of our income. A couple of days ago we had a letter … Continue reading
Hello Friends, As you know, we’ve been battling over the last couple of years with huge gas bills. This has not been helped by teenage daughters who believe a shower has to last 40 minutes, but that’s another story. OH … Continue reading
Hello Friends, After 12 years on a pay as you go mobile phone I have finally crumbled and signed up to a monthly contract. We resisted having mobile phones for a long time. We then had two incidents when OH … Continue reading
Hello Friends, As you know, on Thursday I had a bit of a rant about the gas bill. Yesterday we had the electricity bill in the post. After the gas bill, I was a bit concerned about what this might … Continue reading
Hello Friends, Last year we had a huge gas bill – over £700. The house is on 3 floors, quite old and drafty and we had to leave the heating on overnight because it was so cold and wanted to … Continue reading
Hello Friends, I’ve had a funny couple of days on the money front. January and February are normally a bit tricky. We have a number of large bills due: car insurance, gas and electricity for the winter quarter, breakdown insurance for … Continue reading
Hello Everyone, Setting up this blog has taken me well out of my comfort zone. I’ve had to get over the fear of writing for anyone to see and comment on. I wanted to set up a free standing blog, … Continue reading
We gave in today and put the heating on. I’ve resisted turning it on until now, but it suddenly got uncomfortably cold. We had a truly massive gas bill in February last year, and we’ve been trying to cut our gas and … Continue reading