Making chicken feed of my mortgage

greent

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

This is peppermint bark mould

Damn! I *had* managed to avoid the Lakeland sale up until now...... ooops....:p

muddywhitechicken

Sorry greent!

Plans for today:

- sort out RM survey stuff
- dust/hoover throughout
- clean bathroom
- shine kitchen sink
- go for a 6-mile walk
- clean chicken coop

No dads today as Mr MWC needs to get ready for his trip

edinburgher

Wow - that's a heck of a cheque MWC!

I've just had an inspired idea re. peppermint bark. Nah, it's essentially make peppermint bark with L1dl's finest 17p chocolate!

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 3
Eggs OUT 0

List done apart from the housework...

My dad popped in at lunchtime (HM pearl barley broth & HM bread - yum) and hand-delivered some post from HMR&C... a tax rebate of £155 :T

I really should ask them to update their system with my married name and current address - I've been married for 12.5 years :rotfl:

Bengali squash & chickpea curry, white cabbage stir-fried in mustard oil with nigella seeds and curry leaves, and rice for dinner

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 3
Eggs OUT 0

Mr MWC has left me to fend for myself so leftovers for dinner tonight (broth and bread), leftovers for dinner tomorrow (curry), leftovers for dinner Wednesday (frozen cottage pie), eggs on Thursday and a fishfinger sandwich on Friday :rotfl:

I was hoping to go for another walk this evening but it's raining heavily

muddywhitechicken

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

I was hoping to go for another walk this evening but it's raining heavily

It stopped so I'm just back from a 3 mile walk - 43 miles in total for January

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 2
Eggs OUT 0

Rats OUT 0
Pest controller came and checked the loft. The bait hasn't been touched - even more convinced now that our loft monster is a squirrel. Now waiting for a chap to block the gap between the top of the wall and the eaves whilst the squirrel is out and about - it'll be dark soon...

First WI meeting this evening

edinburgher

Ah - the Widgeon Institute - glad to see you are branching out from the chooks :rotfl:

Habibiboo

:wave:
Welll done on the tax rebate, excellent news.

Glad to hear your girls are recovering from all the rain, mine seem a little brighter although my white one (my freeloading free ranger) tried to give herself a dust bath in ground that's more mud than dust. She's turned herself into your namesake MWC!

Squirrels are cheeky loft lurkers, not sure if that's better or worse than rats (which can be dealt with more easily, really).

Hope the WI meeting went well.

muddywhitechicken

1. 25 NSDs 10/25
2. Grocery and chicken treat budget = £40 cash + vouchers/points/coupons (excl. chieftain haggis for Burns supper) 5.44/40
3. Walk 75 miles 45/75 +27 miles :T
4. No alcohol 14/31
5. No chocolate 14/31
6. Lose 8lbs 6/8 NC

Slightly disappointed that I didn't lose any weight this week however overall I'm very pleased with my progress

PS I think I'm going to like WI (even though the purchase of a raffle ticket meant I couldn't claim a NSD!), everyone was very friendly and I'm looking to the next meeting