Blog ≫ 2019 ≫ Those nervous days waiting for premium bonds money to go in

I had a message from the premium bonds so logged in to check my account. I thought it would be notification of the third of three payments in I had made. But no, premium bonds are a bit slow to update, it was a notification of my small regular pay day payment which went on on Thursday. They have my first two payments but not my third payment yet. I have no reason to believe anything will go wrong but right now it is in limbo, has left my current account but not yet reached my premium bonds account.

Things I am thinking of buying:

• More Google Homes, probably a mini for the boys room and maybe for downstairs. The boys have discovered "hey google, broadcast you are a butthead" and it sends this message to any other google homes on your network. They are loving using this to send messages, so across more rooms makes great sense. Got to wait for that price to come down, they're often £25 I think instead of £50
• Symfonisk lamps from IKEA, they have Sonos speakers built in, I like that. I hope the lamps look good. It's a bit of an expensive risk if they do not, but I've been thinking of buying another lamp for ages
• A new bike. I think I can do this paying monthly via a scheme at work, must look into that.
• A Tom Bihn bag. I'm always thinking of this, I will never buy one. They sell for more second hand than they do new, as you can't get them in the UK. Just seen an offer on one that is bringing the price down to just "extortionate" as opposed to "unfeasible", so maybe. My good old Dakine work bag is still seeing me right though after fifteen years service.

Clare says we need new carpets and I think we need a new sofa too. As soon as you start thinking "I have a few quid in my pocket what do we need" you realise you desperately need more than you have the money for. I think I'll keep the spare money in the premium bonds for now.

I made a little more progress on my house plan. But not much. This is still only the ground floor and still not to scale. It's still just practice for me using SVG remember. View the source of the page if you want to see it.

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Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed + father to two, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home-automation and other diy stuff, history, family tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.

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