Going Home
Jun. 4th, 2005 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
linda_joyceMy animal sitting detail ends today and no hamsters died on my watch, as far as I know.
All four were present and corect at feeding time last night but none of them has bothered to wake up and say goodbye this morning. Pippin decided to ruin my sleep last night by not coming back to the house, by midnight I gave up and went to bed. He had the nerve to nag me to go faster this morning when I was dishing up his breakfast. I told him he was lucky I hadn't given the remains of his cat biscuits to next doors gingers. Of course he pretended not to understand English and just kept wolfing them down as if he hadn't eaten for days and getting in my way when I put down his fishy cat food which he ate two mouth fulls of and looked at me as if it were poison. Typical cat!
Misty didn't seem to care much either, she usually nuzzles for a tickle but this morning all she was interested in was the chopped carrot, she got the tickle anyway.
Just a quick visit to the local library to return my talking book and then I'm off home and my own bed, That's really the only thing I miss when I'm animal sitting, I've been doing for so long that this house is as familiar to me as my own and I am in Newport, civilization as we know it, shops cinemas the railway station not that I did much I needed the rest after one whole week back in work after a month+ off my feet, legs and back were killing me.
The only problem is That I am also back to a broke computer and I'm too broke myself to fix it. Ah well it's only about 6 weeks to endowment day and I can buy a new one.
All four were present and corect at feeding time last night but none of them has bothered to wake up and say goodbye this morning. Pippin decided to ruin my sleep last night by not coming back to the house, by midnight I gave up and went to bed. He had the nerve to nag me to go faster this morning when I was dishing up his breakfast. I told him he was lucky I hadn't given the remains of his cat biscuits to next doors gingers. Of course he pretended not to understand English and just kept wolfing them down as if he hadn't eaten for days and getting in my way when I put down his fishy cat food which he ate two mouth fulls of and looked at me as if it were poison. Typical cat!
Misty didn't seem to care much either, she usually nuzzles for a tickle but this morning all she was interested in was the chopped carrot, she got the tickle anyway.
Just a quick visit to the local library to return my talking book and then I'm off home and my own bed, That's really the only thing I miss when I'm animal sitting, I've been doing for so long that this house is as familiar to me as my own and I am in Newport, civilization as we know it, shops cinemas the railway station not that I did much I needed the rest after one whole week back in work after a month+ off my feet, legs and back were killing me.
The only problem is That I am also back to a broke computer and I'm too broke myself to fix it. Ah well it's only about 6 weeks to endowment day and I can buy a new one.
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Date: 2005-06-04 08:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-04 09:43 am (UTC)Twenty five years ago I bought a house in Newport on what is called an Endowment Mortgage. You pay off only interest monthly and you pay a bit extra into an investment fund called an endowment which when it mature in 25 years time after you start it would pay enough to pay off your mortgage and give you a little extra. The insurance and interest came to less that a pay off mortgage would so I chose that method. My endowment matures in July.
However Endowment Mortgages were not all they were put out to be and there are a lot of people facing a very large shortfall between what they owe and what they will get. I am one of the lucky ones.
Firstly I sold my house at a tidy profit when I inherted my parents house, which enabled me to drag it kicking and screaming into the Twentieth century. Secondly I opened my endowment at a time of high interest rates and good investment returns so that even if I still had the mortgage I would have just enough to pay it off but no extra.
But since I don't it's all mine and at the last estimate by the company was maturing at £20,000. I've calculated I should have enough for rewiring the house, a new bathroom, a new computer and a newish car. And possibly a good holiday but that comes very much last on the list above that comes that torque we are both drooling over.
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Date: 2005-06-04 09:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-04 09:53 am (UTC)