Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

I've just received £50 of bonusbond gift vouchers as a thank you at work :T

Not sure what to spend them on... paint in Homebase, lotions & potions in JL, wine at Laithwaites, a meal at Pizza Express - too many choices :rotfl:

My weekend starts in 5 minutes :j I'm popping in to see a friend on the way home from work this afternoon

muddywhitechicken

Yesterday's update:

Eggs IN 7 (no green egg from Miss M for 3 days now )
Eggs OUT 20 (12 sold for £4, 6 given to friend, 2 fried for Mr MWC's lunch)

Peppered smoked mackerel, new potato & watercress salad for dinner

Mr MWC did the menu plan for this week :T £41 spent in the supermarket yesterday evening - a few bits left to buy today

Things to do today:

- buy paint and wallpaper
- look for/buy paint to spruce up an old ottoman (given to my parents as a wedding present 46 years ago :cool:)
- (if fabric swatch arrives in post and I like it) buy fabric
- buy a frame for V&A Bowie exhibition poster
- buy a lampshade
- empty :eek: the spare bedroom ready for the decorators on Monday
- bank cheques
- wash bedding/towels
- a little bit of housework
- clean chicken coop

muddywhitechicken

Toast with HM gooseberry & elderflower jam for breakfast - if I label it as softset and advise refrigeration I might just get away with it :rotfl:

Rather than save it for my Christmas hampers I may do mini end-of-summer hampers - gooseberry & elderflower jam, lemon curd, and blueberry, pistachio & white chocolate chip cookies

muddywhitechicken

Fabric swatch didn't arrive in the post

I must resist the bulb/plant catalogue that did...

And I've found the source of the bad smell in the fridge - a half-used tub of ricotta cheese that had turned green

skint_spice

Had a similar fridge problem yesterday - apparently the cheap feta like 'salad cheese' doesn't last indefinitely when you forget about it...

muddywhitechicken

Things to do today:

- buy paint and wallpaper - DONE - £40 CP vouchers paid for 1 tin of paint unfortunately I needed 2 tins of paint and 4 rolls of wallpaper!
- buy a frame for V&A Bowie exhibition poster - DONE but... 50x70 poster doesn't fit in 50x70 frame :mad:
- buy a lampshade - DONE only £4.99 in Dunelm, Mr MWC wanted to spend £6.99 on a different lampshade but I talked him out of it :rotfl:
- bank cheques - DONE
- wash bedding/towels - DONE

Mr MWC has booked our flights... but he still has 80,000 avios points... the days we wanted weren't available if we used them :mad:

avios points will be used to buy 5+ cases of wine instead :beer:

Off to tackle the spare room now...

nattypants

End of summer hampers sound fab MCW:T

I've been meaning to say that F&B are running a new range of colours comp, and I think you should post hennies eggs (photographs that is, not the actual eggs;)) and have F&B new range named after each chook:D

muddywhitechicken

Thanks Natty

Only 1 entrant per person though - Beryl (cream) or Gladys (olive green) or Florence (RIP, pale blue) ??? Decisions, decisions

nattypants

Easypeasy - between you, aunt tills, aunt GG and myself we could enter all girls:D

Go on, you know you wanna:T

muddywhitechicken

OK then :rotfl:

I'll go for Miss Flo, you can choose between Miss Beryl or Miss Gladys, and Tilly and GG can fight it out for Miss LRH and the one you don't want!!!