Is spring around the corner?

Mild and bright here in Kent. 

MummyHen X

Vital Statistics

No not my 38-24-36 - [in my dreams] 

I have 33 followers – hello to you all; thanks very much for following my blog.  If you don’t follow then do click the button on the right to join and follow this blog.  I have had some lovely comments over the past seven months since I started this journey – again thank you all

Every now and then I look at the blog stats on how many people read the blog and where they come from; not only location but from which site (known as Referring Sites) ie as Frugal Queen lists my blog in her ‘My Blog List’ I can see that x number of view come via Frugal Queen – thanks Jane.

 Most days I get an average of 32 views but my post on 23^rd January  snail-mail-and-email-went-to-post something very odd happened ‘apparently’ I had 2,537 page views – hello to you all wow – that’s a huge jump.  I’d like to think they are real people and not blogger playing a joke on me – which would be very cruel.  Anybody got any ideas as to what was to wonderful about this post?  Did you blog stats jump up suddenly?

Progress has been made on the patchwork blanket – just over half of the remaining squares have been completed.

MummyHen X

Happy Valentine’s Day

 

DaddyHen knows I love him & I know he loves me – we tell each other nearly every day; we don’t go in for all this meal out, meal in deals; presents, flowers on Valentine ’s Day.  A christian festival that’s been adopted by the marketing men to make money - we don't buy into this.

 

Love you DaddyHen

 

MummyHen X

 

The journey to a debt free life

is full of pitfalls, obstacles and temptations.

This month we have started to pay down the two credit cards that WILL be paid off later this year.  DaddyHen has snowballed a loan, CC#1 (both of which are fully paid off) & the regular payment to CC#3 and paid £850 to Mr B’card this month.

 

In the post yesterday morning was a letter from Mr B’Card in big bold letters – Important News about your B’card credit limit.  Baring in mind, that the card was last used well over a year ago, minimum +£50 has been paid each month, our initial thought was they were going to reduce – silly us

 

Good news … … your credit limit will be increased from £10,900 to £12,000.  NO NO NO NO 

The letter goes on to say ‘ text KEEP to  blah blah blah if you want to stay at the current limit.  If DaddyHen does nothing then on 19^th March the increase will happen.

 

What annoys me is it should be the other way round; DaddyHen should text if he wants the increase NOT text to stay at the same credit limit. Credit limit increases should be ‘opt-in’ not ‘opt-out’.

 

Needless to say a quick text was sent – roll on December when the card will be paid off.

 

Ohh another weekend of free listings on ebay – I have been busy sorting out a few cupboards

 

MummyHen X

Interesting sky

At 7am this morning this was the view from the kitchen window; the colour of the sky was a blue/grey with pink clouds.

Just had to snap a few photos to share

 

 

MummyHen X

Patchwork granny square blanket      

It’s nearly done - 560 squares (28x20).  The colours and the randomness of their placement – just make me smile. 

 

 

The down side is it’s not big enough – I think I need another 5 or 6 rows along the long edge another 140 or 168 squares. 

 

 

 

I have enough yarn – good old Stylecraft Special DK – I have only had to buy one additional ball of light blue I have plenty to finish.

 

I must tell you my ebay selling generated £155.54 – which is amazing; will have to start looking out other stuff to sell and declutter.

 

MummyHen X

Activity in the Hen house…

Actually there is very little activity in the Hen house – my five hens haven’t laid any eggs since October – each egg they do lay must be worth a fortune (too scared to work it out).  I did notice today that their combs are getting redder so hopefully eggs are going to be back on the menu very soon.

Last weekend was free listing on eBay so I listed 44 items magazines, crafty books, unwanted perfume gift sets that I’ve read and are just taking up space – I don’t need them.  If I can make a few quid for the tin then that’s just a bonus.  These items were making nothing just piled on a shelf.  I plan to get rid of stuff on eBay each month; DaddyHen reminded me that I had boxes of blue and white china in the loft; butter knives and silver spoons; all from many years ago when I when through a collecting phase. 

 

Work has been extremely busy – I work for a large multinational that has offshored many of the back office activities to various locations in Asia.  I was reconciling 2012 budgets and preparing for 2013 activities when I noticed some missing data; I questioned it – nothing happened; I escalated it – nothing happened; I made the onshore team aware – a little movement – just forwarding on my emails; my weekly update with my Leadership team brought it to their attention.  Well this Thursday all hell broke loose when it was realised I was correct – and yes you’ve guessed the offshore team wanted me to fix it; I don’t think so – your processes are broken, you don’t understand what you are doing – you claim to understand when we have conference calls and are shown the issues but clearly you don’t have a clue

 

AHHH – thanks for listening to my rant

 

MummyHen X