Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

We took our niece & nephew to the cinema this afternoon and it cost us a small fortune :eek: Nativity 2 was very good though

2 eggs again 1 from Miss B, not sure who laid the second - looks like a Miss D egg but she "doesn't look ready"

A carpet picnic for dinner - cheese & biscuits, pate, pork pie, cherry tomatoes, spicy pear pickle and a couple of glasses of port - my favourite meal of the festive season

nattypants

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Justed counted my egg sales money/loose change jar - £32.50


The plan for 2013 is to leave the £32.50 in the pot, to add egg sales money (when they start laying again...) and to leave it untouched until I have saved £193 - the cost of a new roof for their walk-in run

Perhaps if you print out a picture of the new roof for their walk-in run, and let the little miss's see this every day, this will encourage them to lay more. Like a 'law of attraction' visualisation board for hens:D

gallygirl

nattypants wrote: »

Perhaps if you print out a picture of the new roof for their walk-in run, and let the little miss's see this every day, this will encourage them to lay more. Like a 'law of attraction' visualisation board for hens:D

Yes I can see how this would work :T.





(Best to humour her MWC, she'll lose interest and wander off elsewhere )

muddywhitechicken

nattypants wrote: »

Perhaps if you print out a picture of the new roof for their walk-in run, and let the little miss's see this every day, this will encourage them to lay more. Like a 'law of attraction' visualisation board for hens:D

That's certainly an option NP (I'm taking your advice GG )

Other options include withholding mealworms and getting 3 new chickens for my birthday next month... I'm favouring option No. 3 personally:j

nattypants

Wanders back in, looks around aimlessly, stares at the wall for a bit then wanders back out......

BookWorm

Hi MWC

Festive greetings to you. Just passing through on a catch up following the holidays

BW

muddywhitechicken

Good evening

Today was supposed to be a NSD but our 8 year old niece has come to visit and is sleeping over - this has led to a few spends but nothing excessive

We are baking a cake (Victoria sandwich) decorated to look like a butterfly with pink icing, sprinkles, sweets and edible glitter. I needed to buy a cake tin as I could only find 1 in the cupboard :huh: liquorice catherine wheels for the antennae and dolly mixtures

As we were in Sainsburys, we picked up a bottle of wine that was recommended on Saturday Kitchen this morning - 25% off - we already have all the ingredients for the dish it was served with

We are having pasta and peas for dinner (frozen peas cooked for 45 minutes in chicken stock with onion and small shell pasta)

1 egg today from Miss B

muddywhitechicken

BookWorm wrote: »

Hi MWC

Festive greetings to you. Just passing through on a catch up following the holidays

BW

Hello BW :wave:

Festive greetings to you too - hope you had a good one

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Hi Muddy, the cake sounds fab x x

muddywhitechicken

Hi Tilly, the cake turned out really well