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7:43 pm
Fri 30-Jul-10
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mutley
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What is a pension 
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8:13 pm
Fri 30-Jul-10
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JoannaS
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shelley said:
you have to laugh; or else you'd cry!!
They do make great stories though 
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8:16 pm
Fri 30-Jul-10
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JoannaS
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Lol Mutley, I am in the same boat. I have no pension and living off what I thought I would use as a pension now. Oh well! Maybe I will be working until I drop but what a lovely place to work. 
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8:34 pm
Fri 30-Jul-10
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danast
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Very very many moons ago in the days when you could and because we were skint ( no money ) and I was pregnant, I cashed in my pension. It was totally necessary at the time, but I am paying the price now. Of course I never thought I would be on my own when I retired. What with that and time off for children, when I retired, instead of the 40 years I should have had in pensionable years, I have 30.
However, I think I should think myself lucky I have that. I am not well off, but I am comfortable. At least I knew my pension was secure. I don't know how I would survive if mine had been a private pension that was not reliable. 
Elsa, I didn't defer my pension. I have claimed it since I was 60. Think I might have made the right choice.
It seems that nothing is very safe these days.
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Old teachers never die, they just lose their class
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9:50 pm
Fri 30-Jul-10
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Shereen
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Hello forumites! My achievements for the day were making it to the end of a very busy work week, hot on the heels of a lovely, but busy weekend in London. I have plans for a quiet weekend catching up with you all now :)
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10:53 pm
Fri 30-Jul-10
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KateUK
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Great nephews coming to stay next week so lashings of washing and cleaning and tidying in readiness…oh and Summer Pudding to make up for it….
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10:54 pm
Fri 30-Jul-10
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MOS
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GON BOATIN
swmbo has banished me to the boat for three days. just got here after the fiasco on the M6,
seems i was getting under her feet, and as i have no work she sent me boating as a penance
so i am in nantwich in the pouring rain drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits with sal, and we are snuggled down in bed listening to the rain its a hard life but we keep smiling ,well i do sal just keeps eating biscuits ,   ni nite MOS AND SAL
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sit down with a cupa and the urge will subside
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11:08 pm
Fri 30-Jul-10
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Rae Mond
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oh MOS, I wish I was boating,even in Nantwich in the rain!
A good friend of mine lives there, or thereabouts, closer to Shavington I believe.
Instead I am sat in my PJs having just got out of the bath and watching the boys play some sort of racing game on one those newfangled consoles and wishing i didn't get heat rash on the tops of my feet.
I should go decorate the father out-law's birthday cake really.
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4:47 pm
Sat 31-Jul-10
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Toffeeapple
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Shereen said:
I have plans for a quiet weekend catching up with you all now :)
 Hi Shereen, are you going to let us know how your London weekend went?
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7:43 pm
Sat 31-Jul-10
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JoannaS
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9:55 pm
Sat 31-Jul-10
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shelley
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wow what a busy time you are having!!
I have already posted my achievements on another post; but I also made some lovely mirabelle jam today and had a lovely day by the river near us. Hubby coming home in the evening tomorrow for about a week; so lots to do
Enjoy your sleeping joanna!
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10:00 pm
Sat 31-Jul-10
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I made a stool/table/whatever I want it to be….not so much joinery but nailery….but it looks good in the soft glow of the hallway…might have to move it when the sun comes up
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10:27 pm
Sat 31-Jul-10
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brightspark
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Elsa, what about a picture of your nailery …….. 
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"I tried to contain myself, but I escaped."
Gina Birch
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11:47 pm
Sat 31-Jul-10
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Shereen
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Toffeeapple said:
Hi Shereen, are you going to let us know how your London weekend went?
Hello! It went brilliantly, TA :) I've been friends with the 2 lovely ladies I met for nearly 16 years, have met 1 regularly, but never managed to meet the other as she'd had health issues for years. We'd had to make do with nattering on the phone instead. So of course when the 3 of us got together at last you couldn't keep us quiet.
We started the weekend with a walk around South Bank, followed with a very glamorous dinner in the Skylon restaurant. We were celebrating getting us all together at last, as well as my mortgage being cleared, and 1 friend's shop mortgage being cleared. The after-dinner dander was good because London had actually cooled down a little.
On Saturday we took the river bus to Greenwich where we spent a great day at the museum, observatory and market. We boated back down the Thames and got off near Blackfriars to take a walk around to St Paul's. I'd never been in it before, and loved what l saw, although the main area under the dome was roped off for a choral evening later. Back to the hotel for a freshen up (did I mention it was still hot? 'Cos it was) and then out for some amazing Mexican food at a wee place near Warren Street tube. Not Tex-Mex but proper Mexican. And ohh… the frozen margarita were perfection in a glass!
Sunday was a quiet day with breakfast in an Italian cafe in a park, where we watched every single dog in London out for its walk. A very pleasant place to pass the time, and that's before I tell you they did amazing sausage sandwiches. There was a farmers' market, some shopping in Muswell Hill, waving one friend off for her train and then back to other friend's flat for tea and chat.
And then it was time for me to go off to the airport. Home to a Belfast full of soft rain and grey clouds.
We're planning the next one already 
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12:13 am
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Toffeeapple
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Thank you Shereen, a lovely telling. Too tired to respond properly now but I have your voice echoing in my ears to lull me to sleep – thank you again. 
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Also tramped through our forest, the men striding off leaving me and the our friend to stumble over banks and through muddy patches and she is not good on her feet. Nice way to get to know someone as you are busy hauling them through the mud and rescuing wellies embedded in it. 
Fell asleep for an hour and half after they left, then talked to daughter about wedding dresses. Poor lass had to stay up to talk to me as it was nearly midnight in Australia by the time I woke up 
