Star wrote:Lucian Deville wrote:Hi
We have been busy and worried for the last couple of weeks.
We thought we'd share our good news with you.
Our grandson/prince had an appt ay GOSH today, second one, all good but will see him again in May
Lucian had an appt just before noon, some further tests and checks to see if the dreaded thing had retruned. Good news, we are 6 months free of it so very good news indeed. But there are more checks for something else, hopefully nothing much.
The first thing we returned was not to go to our humble home but see our prince as his mum and day had both taken the day off for the appt, we would have gone as well if it was not for our appt.
Best wishes to all nice posters here
Hi Lucian. Great news,pleased to hear that your grandson has received good news.
Fingers crossed that all is ok with you
Sending my best wishes to Mrs D
Hi Star
Many thanks for your very kind comments re our prince, us and Mrs D
You may recall we jacked in our FT job last year, it was because of that. We aimed to retire at 60 as got company and three private pensions on the go. However, as soon as we got an idea re what it was, we just left work, work ownned us several weeks of A/L inc what we had carried over and offical retired at over 50 and well under 55
Mrs D retired earlier in the year that was planned a long time ago, ie when we became grandparents, we had decided that Mrs D would pack up work and look after our prince/princess when their mummy ret to work, so when the prince was a couple of months old Mrs D jacked in her job. But then we became unwell.
We are lucky that we have worked hard, spent wisely invested well, and saved for a rainy day. Our state pensions do not kick in until we are 67 :( - we will get even less as we have stopped paying stamps and not, never will sign on. Not bothering with the voluntary contributions either, but not really sure how they work.
That's why we sold one of the cars and pocketed a tidy amount and saving thousands on the servicing and depreciaton of the humble car. The 2 other cars remain but no more grand plans to by brand new cars every 2/3 years
Funny as it is, at times we feel like returning to work as we were told that there is a job there for us if we want it, but trying to get up at 7-20 in the morning in winter, having a shower, bite to eat, bit of tv and radio and then having to leave by 08-45 reminds us of the harsh realtively of a 34 hour a week hard slog, so we are permantely retired, fact
it's worth getting up for the guilty face she does.
