Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

Good morning

Thank you everyone for the lovely comments about my hampers

I'm back from my brother's with 5 squash from his allotment (I counted 72 in his house - he harvested over 100!!!), a jar of dilly beans, 2 jars of HM passata and a chicken print shirt :T:T:T

I've also gained 5 pounds over Christmas :eek: so I will not be QC-ing the tablet I am making today :rotfl:

edinburgher

I'm sure you'll burn off the 5lbs soon enough!

Every time I go near the scales at Christmas, my better judgement fairy holds a gun to my head and tells me to back away from the scales :rotfl:

muddywhitechicken

Fingers crossed ed - it's a lot more difficult to lose weight (and keep it off) now I'm in my 40s :mad:

Just found out that one of our neighbours was burgled on Saturday night - whilst he was upstairs asleep :eek::eek::eek:
We will be reviewing our security measures again as we have both been guilty of lapses recently.

I've got not oompf so I need a plan for this afternoon:

Finish cup of tea!
More laundry
Make 2 batches of tablet
Unpack from our IOW trip
Shuffle money (it's pay day :j)
Count the contents of Mr MWC's secret money box (not so secret now as I told him yesterday that I had been tidying his loose change into it)
Count The Girl's egg money/new roof fund (I haven't told them yet that I've been using the £s and 50p's to buy my lunch )
Order the TK cookbook using Amazon vouchers (we both thought the other would buy it...)
Meal plan
Browse the new Next directory

nattypants

That's shocking for your neighbour MWC:eek:

Enjoy the money counting, and Happy 2014 to you, Mr MWC, and the girls:kisses3:

teabody

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Hi teabody - copied from my diary so you see my reply:

I'm not sure, sorry... if it was me I would wait until they were absolutely dry and then spray them with clear varnish (probably this)

Also, I would then store them in an airtight container.

MWCx

Thankyou, a google on the internet tells me they will be fine without, but the glitter might loosen and be found all round the house next xmas so thanks for the varnish link....think this will save me from glitter hell!!!

Loving the fact that you came away with 'pruck'(goodies in our household) from your brothers, he sounds as resourceful as you x Wish mine was! Mine practically pats me down when I leave....to check I am not leaving with anything!!!

DedicatedDFW

Sorry to hear about your neighbour MWC :mad:

It is interesting to read about the gaining weight over xmas as I was really proud of myself not gaining any weight over this festive period - but my Mr couldn't see why i was so pleased as i'm trying to lose weight. I don't think he appreciates the extra drinking and eating over Chrimble - either that or he's expecting my slimmer self to return much more quickly than is realistic :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

muddywhitechicken

£132.43 OP'd - we will start 2014 owing £134,999.99

muddywhitechicken

Mr MWC = £86.41 :T

The Girls = £43.28

Habibiboo

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

£132.43 OP'd - we will start 2014 owing £134,999.99

:wave:
Many congrats on meeting the new year with a new total below £135,000 ~ I get quite [STRIKE]caught up[/STRIKE] ... oh, ok, OCD-like into the psychology of getting the total below big round numbers, so very impressed and happy for you to see you nipping in under one too! It's a great start to the new year for you ... all the best for 2014's continued efforts!

muddywhitechicken

I've just done the :money: How Tight Are You? quiz...

53% :rotfl: