Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

I've run out of oomph and I haven't really done much today

I need to make a list:

*Laundry - third load in
*Walk to supermarket - done (spent too much on 3 bottles of wine but we do now have £50 of nectar points to spend at Christmas)
*Disassemble old wardrobe ready to take to tip tomorrow when it will be quieter
* Tidy/clean bedrooms/Mr MWC's office
* Hoover/dust living room
* Wash floors downstairs
* Clean bathroom & downstairs loo
* Move stuff from bedrooms to dining room/conservatory before carpet fitters arrive on Wednesday morning (hopefully Mr MWC will declutter his office as part of this)

I have set up a savings account for our niece today - I've been meaning to do it since she was a baby... she's 9 in October (oops!). £50/month that I'm hoping to find by tightening our belts.

Yikes it sounds like Mr MWC has taken a sledgehammer to the wardrobe - I'd better go and see what he's up to...

muddywhitechicken

It wasn't a sledgehammer... he was kicking the back of the wardrobe out *rolls eyes*

The bedrooms are nearly done - just need to hoover - but downstairs will need to wait until we get back tomorrow.

However, I have shined my sink again this evening

Eggs IN 6
Eggs OUT 0

Soup for dinner (1 chicken thigh, 1L chicken stock, onion, garlic, fennel, courgette, runner beans & parsley with a little wholemeal pasta) - very tasty :drool:

muddywhitechicken

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Tuesday - long walk, pub lunch, gardening

Long walk - tick - a 7.5 mile walk from our AA 50 miles in ... box
Pub lunch - no tick - the pub we were planning to have lunch in wasn't serving lunch today so I had 1/2 pint pale ale and a bag of S&V crisps!
Gardening - tick - some more to do tomorrow

Whilst we were out my dad popped in and fixed one of the kitchen cupboard doors that had fallen off :T

Eggs IN 7 including a whopper from Miss D (120g double yolker) :T
Eggs OUT 26 (my dad took 3 boxes for him and his neighbours, 4 of Miss MWC's went in the bin and 4 for dinner)
Current egg tally = 12 :T:T:T

Egg & chips for dinner

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

£50 per month sounds a lot for a niece? Is it a gift or is it none of my beeswax?

muddywhitechicken

Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »

£50 per month sounds a lot for a niece? Is it a gift or is it none of my beeswax?

Hi SSS

We don't have children ourselves and we are considerably better off than her parents... I always thought it would be a nice idea to save some money that she can spend when she's 18 on driving lessons/travelling the world/university. Nobody else knows we're doing it (although I suspect that SIL will expect us to cough up some money at some point...) so f she doesn't deserve it then, we can keep it a while longer before giving her the money.

MWCx

muddywhitechicken

I'm not sure that deserve is the right word - what I mean is that I'm not automatically going to give her a large lump sum on her 18th birthday that she can fritter away on clothes, make-up and alcohol!

muddywhitechicken

Busy, busy, busy day yesterday

- moved furniture so that the carpet fitters had an empty room to start in
- new carpets laid stairs, landing, bedrooms
- meanwhile I did some more gardening - 5/11 box balls in front garden trimmed and cleaned the chicken coop
- Mr MWC had his car serviced - just over £200, money will come out of his car allowance
- once carpet fitters had left - hoovered, dusted, moved furniture back to correct rooms, started bringing the stuff that we'd taken downstairs back upstairs (but not if it's surplus to requirements) - I lost count of how many times I went up and down the stairs yesterday but my legs ache this morning
- Mr MWC started building the ottoman bed for the guest room

Eggs IN 6
Eggs OUT 0

Cod with tomato & butterbean stew for dinner

Plans for today:

- tidy downstairs
- FIL arrives with niece approx. 9:30
- Mr MWC and FIL finish bed
- niece and I pop into town (charity shop, bird seed, DVD to watch tonight, buy something for lunch)
- another visit to the tip with cardboard boxes
- go to poultry centre for chicken feed - look at the chickens but don't buy any!
- take niece to park (paddling pool, adventure playground)
- make pizzas for tea
- watch DVD
- try not to go to bed before 8 year old niece!

Pay day tomorrow

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Good thinking to keep it secret from the niece. It is a lovely idea though, she is a lucky girl.

Squirrel x

muddywhitechicken

It's pay day - yippee :j

Did everything on the list for yesterday :T

Note to Auntie MWC - in future do not ask niece if she wants a new doll before knowing how much they actually cost... £50 for a Baby Annabell + batteries :eek: Niece very pleased with it though and I've got a £5 voucher to spend in Argos next month

The DVD she chose was Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer - I think Uncle MWC secretly enjoyed it! Must remember to add it to CP.

Eggs IN 7
Eggs OUT 6 (egg mayonnaise sandwiches for lunch)

Plans for today:

- lunch at Yo Sushi (not sure if niece will actually eat sushi but she likes the idea of choosing food from the conveyor belt...)
- zoo
- early night

Calfuray

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

It's pay day - yippee :j

Did everything on the list for yesterday :T

Note to Auntie MWC - in future do not ask niece if she wants a new doll before knowing how much they actually cost... £50 for a Baby Annabell + batteries :eek: Niece very pleased with it though and I've got a £5 voucher to spend in Argos next month

The DVD she chose was Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer - I think Uncle MWC secretly enjoyed it! Must remember to add it to CP.

Eggs IN 7
Eggs OUT 6 (egg mayonnaise sandwiches for lunch)

Plans for today:

- lunch at Yo Sushi (not sure if niece will actually eat sushi but she likes the idea of choosing food from the conveyor belt...)
- zoo
- early night

Sorry to but in, and it might be a bit late, but: I took my fussy little sister to Yo Sushi, and some of the dishes she liked were pumpkin korroke, chicken katsu curry, inari pocket, and the chocolate mochi.

HTH!
Cal