The right team won the men's university boatrace too...

... by 20 seconds!

For the first quarter it was anyone's race, they were so close, but the right team won the men's race too!

Next year I'm gonna maybe stick a tenner on both races (women's and men's) just to support the students who train so hard for the races as well as studying!

You watch me forget now!  lol

The right team won the women's university boatrace...

... can the men make me an even happier bunny?

Just had a poor bloke from one of the political parties at the door...

... he introduced him by the party he was with and I just shook my head and closed the door in his face.

I know which party I'll be voting for at the election in May so I don't want to waste his time trying to get a vote that won't happen.

I've voted for the same party from the start and I can't see that changing any time soon!

What do I do please?

There are 3 things to be bought by the end of the year.

The bathroom roof needs to be paid for.

I’ve got 1 credit card that I’d like to pay off.

I want to get Steve a car.

I’ve already put £1500 into the joint account which was originally for Steve’s car but the landlady next door came over last week and said we needed to get our bathroom roof fixed because it was affecting her outside wall.

I got a letter from one of my credit cards this morning giving me an update on how much I still had to pay off.  That’s £2,100.

I want to get Steve a second-hand car to go over and see my mum because we haven’t seen each other since the end of 2010 because neither of us can drive and Steve hasn’t got a car.

So, I’m going to use the money that’s already in the joint account to pay for the roof.  That takes out one expense which leaves me with a clean slate to start from.

I can only do one or the other this year and I’ll do the other next year so it will be totally done by the end of 2016, but do I pay off my credit card first and get Steve’s car next year, or do I get Steve his car this year and pay off my credit card next year?

I’ve already asked Steve and he said “it’s your money, do what you like with it” which really didn’t help… can you help me decide on what to get first please?

Didn't work :-(

Maybe I need to reboot or something, but I tried to set a setting that stopped my blog views being counted but they still are so I don't know what to do now  :-(

Just trying something out...

Feel free to ignore this post, just testing out a setting I hope I've just made to my blog!

We've got to fill in a waste audit form and wait to hear back from the Council

Amy has just phoned back and said that because we haven't filled in a Waste Audit form, they won't collect the second bin until we've filled it in and sent it back, then someone from the household waste team will interview us and we'll take it from there.

So, it's back to asking the bin men to take extra bags of rubbish every fortnight until we've had the assessment.

I've achieved more in the last 30 minutes than Steve has this whole week!

It's amazing what a woman can achieve in 7 minutes that it takes...

... a man over 4 days to even attempt!

Just been on to the City Council about our second wheelie bin not being emptied and spoke to a wonderful lady called Amy who was going to find out what was going on and why the bin men only emptied one of the bins on Monday, then she's going to call me back and let me know what's going on!

It's amazing what a woman can achieve in 6 minutes 57 seconds that a man still hasn't done, 4 days after promising he would!

My rings

I was born at the start of October so my birthstone is opal.

My twins were born at the end of September and beginning of October, so their birthstones are sapphire and opal.

The 2 opal and sapphire rings on my right hand are in memory of my twins - the huge ring on my right index finger is a big opal surrounded by dark sapphires that Chris got me for Christmas 2014 and the other one is small oval opals with small oval sapphires.

Now I've got to try and work out how to put the photo in this post!  lol

As soon as I can find something to have them upright and close up I'll take a better photo of them all!

Apparently the builder was working until...

...it got dark at about 8.30pm last night! 

Steve said it sounded like he was putting new boards down, so ours must have been bad but it means that it'll be more expensive than we were quoted  :-( 

There's £1,500 that I've put into the joint account for Steve's car so hopefully it won't come to any more than that and then I can start saving up for Steve's car when the bathroom roof is sorted... might have to wait until the end of this year or the start of 2016 though  :-(

Ho hum!