Tales of thrift and self-reliance on a journey to early retirement.
So on Sunday Martin and I joined my sister and nephew to scatter the rest of my mother's ashes in a small welsh village where she grew up. It was the anniversary of her death and we'd already had a partial scattering on her birthday in June at a church near Thame that she and my ...
Yes, it finally happened. I finally accepted that we had to update our daily car to a more modern car. I think we felt the earth shift on its axis when I ‘gave in’ 😂 Early on in our marriage I identified cars as a significant money drain and impediment to retiring early, and ...
Monday was a bad day. We took Georgie to the vet as he seemed to be a bit unwell last Tuesday and Wednesday, off his food and drinking a lot of water. He seemed to recover Thursday and Friday, ate a whole deli chicken (!), two cans of tuna and a a couple of cans of cat food, and ...
I'm seeing the dawn in this morning while writing this. I had an allergy attack in the night and finally gave up on sleep at 4:30am. I thought I'd tiptoe around, make a cup of tea and start my day quietly but the cats had other ideas. They started howling about two minutes after ...
I wanted to finish off the jumper I started knitting last year after mum died and was searching for something to have on in the background that I could peer over my needles at. I find period dramas are great for that kind of thing. Modern programming has too much going on ...
