Life update June was much better than May.   Last month, things with Mum reached a crisis point which ended up with her being in hospital for about a week.  When she returned the care regime increased to four times a day.  This took a lot of pressure off me and my sister.  It will take time for things to settle down following her house move and to get better, but light is at the end of the tunnel.   Our fertility treatment started but then stopped for a month as we were advised to wait a month.  Now It’s started again and things are going … Continue reading June 2025 update – Feeling better

Hello! Another update from the Wealthster. This month I talk/moan about all the difficult things that we have experienced this month. Mum in hospital (gone crazy) and fertility issues. I promise this is still a personal finance FIRE blog. We’ve just been blown off course slightly in recent times and it’s only fair I am honest about it all. Anyway keep reading to hear how it all went. Life getting on top of me The past few months have been emotionally tough in the Wealthster household.  This is for a number of reasons.   We’ve been trying to sort out my mother’s … Continue reading May 2025 update – A long month

March was spent mainly in Bali, Indonesia with Mrs Wealthster and her sisters and their partners who had joined from Australia.  It is truly amazing over there with pristine beaches and luxury villas at cut price.  All the comforts of home are provided thanks to years of Australians visiting for their holidays.  We started in Seminyak where we had a luxury villa about 10 mins walk from the beach.  It was stunning.  It was amongst a maze of narrow lanes which presumably started as farm tracks between the rice paddy fields that existed there before.  Now these gone and have been replaced with villas and … Continue reading March and April 2025 update – that sinking feeling (again)

February has come and gone.  We were busy.  I made a trip to Edinburgh to watch Ireland comprehensively beat Scotland at egg chasing.  That was an expensive way to suffer pain.  We were up again the next weekend for my mum’s 70th birthday party which was also a lot of fun.  It was great to see her enjoying having all her friends around.  We also sold her house for the third time.  We’ve been let down by two buyers who quite frankly just didn’t have enough money to buy the house.  Highly frustrating.  But we got there, fingers crossed.  She is moving nearer my sister. We had another night out … Continue reading February 2025 update – that sinking feeling

As it usually does, January seemed to both drag and fly by.  I was extremely busy at work having lots of projects coming in.  Also I had to prepare for a presentation I was asked to make to a conference of 180 people, which was both nerve wracking and a success.   We also had a great visit to the theatre to see Tempest with Sigourney Weaver.  It was at Drury lane theatre which was a beautiful theatre.  We got to see this for £2.50 a ticket thanks to Mrs Wealthster grabbing a bargain!   Other than that It was  quiet month with a few outings to … Continue reading Trump is here – Jan 2025 update

2024 seemed to be gone in a flash.  Here is my annual review.   Highlights 2024 was a year filled with highlights.  I shall list them below:  We’ve had a great year, and we have been busy doing other fun things too.  Work has been great but very busy.  I’m progressing quite rapidly, and this can only be down to not drinking and performing much better than before.  Big trips to Australia, the USA, and Vietnam made the year extra special.  Spending time with friends and family is great.  We also went on some more local adventures to the Lake District which were fantastic ways to spend … Continue reading 2024 review – fun but expensive

We started November in Vietnam on the holiday of a lifetime.  It was also interesting because we went just before the now infamous budget was announced, and before the US election.  We would return to a potentially different world.   In the event, the budget had no impact on me personally (according to The Times’ calculator at least) but I’m sure the impact will be felt collectively through protests or whatever.  I’m convinced that the media is over hyping everything about this as it will affect the wealthy owners of these publications and their friends. Accordingly, they are sending out the message that we, … Continue reading November 2024 update – Vietnam and Trump

September was thankfully quite a quiet month.  I was into my third month at my new job.  My finances were coming under control once again.  We managed to do a few cool things.  We went to visit my mum in Scotland and also went to my sister’s 40th birthday.  That was cool.  It was a very small by fun affair.  We also attended the Open House festival.  This is a London event where buildings and homes which are normally closed to the public are opened up.  We very much enjoyed nosing around some lovely homes which people have done interesting things with.    We also celebrated Mrs Wealthster’s 10 … Continue reading September and half of October 2024

General stuff I have spent the last couple of months getting started and settling into my new job.  It’s been a change to be going in four days a week but one that I have, to my surprise, found to be good.  I’m now into the habit and really enjoy my Fridays at home.  Sure, the laundry bin gets a bit full as I have less opportunity to get household chores done but I think it forces me to be more efficient with my time.  That brings me to my break from X.  With the dramatic riots taking place in the UK, I found … Continue reading July and August 2024