Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

:mad: someone has been trying to fraudulently use my CC - luckily N/wide spotted it and blocked the card

Plans for today include taking niece home, grocery shopping and, if the sun stays out, tidying up the garden

muddywhitechicken

I'm still really pleased with the cake. I have a 35-year old memory of making a cake just like it when I was young, hopefully our niece will have similar memories

Spent £17.72 (£47.72 - £30 voucher) in Morrisons:

Chickens £2.49 (spinach and straw)
Wild birds £0.00
Vegetables £8.71
Fruit £3.57 (including 32 plums for 58p and 8 apples for 58p!)
Meat/fish/poultry £11.75
Dairy £4.66
Bread £1.59
Cleaning £0.00
Storecupboard £13.95
Toiletries £1.00
Misc £0.00

I'll need to buy milk mid week and potatoes + cabbage next Sunday but nothing else until 11 January when I'll need more fruit/veg/salad, milk and bread :T

Steamed mussels, sourdough bread and a glass of Sancerre for dinner

1 egg today (this one was speckled so I'm almost certain that it was laid by Miss Q although the shape is wrong for her...)

Off to look for plum recipes now!

moneycurious

The cakes amazing MWC!!!

I was reading its really east to make sour dough or was it soda bread .... nut might try making it - as we spend loads on bread........ mmmmm muscles!!!

nattypants

The cake looks absolutely delicious MWC:T thank goodness NW were on the ball regarding your credit card!

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

1 egg today (this one was speckled so I'm almost certain that it was laid by Miss Q although the shape is wrong for her...)

There's a whole world out there I know nothing about

nattypants

MWC is truly the David Attenborough of all things chicken;)

muddywhitechicken

gallygirl wrote: »

There's a whole world out there I know nothing about

:rotfl:

Miss Q lays eggs that are slightly wonky on 1 side whilst Miss A (RIP) used to lay eggs shaped like ping pong balls!!!

I have (or have had) chickens that lay white, olive green, pastel green, pale blue, brown with speckles and brown with a plum hue eggs as well as regular supermarket colour :cool:

muddywhitechicken

nattypants wrote: »

MWC is truly the David Attenborough of all things chicken;)

Hardly NP but thanks for saying so!

Everything I know about chickens I've learned from the Omlet forum (the second best forum in the world )

gallygirl

Now different colours I can understand. But if eggs are not egg shaped then how do you know they are eggs . Do you just try cracking random things on the off chance? Like matchboxes and socks?

Confused again .

muddywhitechicken

Good morning

I've just made my final OP of 2012 - £746.57 - which means that I will start 2013 with a total mortgage debt of £164,999.99

ETA: A total of £8,697 OP'd this year :j:T