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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • Greying_Pilgrim
    Greying_Pilgrim Posts: 6,985 Forumite
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    Can you speak in English please GP ;).

    Flour, salt, sugar, yeast & BEER:D = (fingers crossed) Bread :D

    That cake looks 'Proper Lush' gallygirl - you making the plum sauce too?

    Greying x
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  • gallygirl
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    Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »
    Flour, salt, sugar, yeast & BEER:D = (fingers crossed) Bread :D

    :T Got it, thanks :T
    That cake looks 'Proper Lush' gallygirl - you making the plum sauce too?

    I'm going to do plum and rhubarb with some stem ginger :D.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • muddywhitechicken
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    Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »
    I am also a woman in possession of some ditalini pasta, so I am *well 'appy* :D

    :T:T:T :rotfl:

    Looking forward to tomorrow's bread update :)

    MWCx
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • muddywhitechicken
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    gallygirl wrote: »
    Can you speak in English please GP ;).

    Today I made a cake which looks suspiciously like THIS. Am hoping it will taste suspiciously like that also but that's probably too much to ask :rotfl:.

    Proper lush indeed :drool:

    Save me a slice please!

    MWCx
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • muddywhitechicken
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »

    Today I need to:
    Send a few business e-mails - oops didn't get round to this...
    Wait in for the last couple of presents to be delivered - done :T
    Take a walk to a different supermarket - just a few bits needed - done
    Make lemon curd - done
    Bake cookies - 2 batches done, 1 more to do in the morning
    Assemble last few hampers - almost done
    Deliver gifts to neighbours - 3 down, 2 to go
    Ask neighbour's daughter to chicken sit after giving her a tin of cookies! - done
    Take my car to the carwash - it's still dirty!
    Cook cranberries for cocktails on Christmas Eve (Canadian whiskey, cranberries cooked with cinnamon and star anise, apple juice and ginger ale) - done

    Mr MWC is going into London for a catch-up/lunch with his boss and then he is going to cook a ham for later in the week :drool: - done

    Still to do before we leave at midday tomorrow:

    Dip candied orange peel in dark choclate
    Bake cookies
    Gifts to neighbours
    Pot up cheap pot of hyacinth bulbs into nice basket
    Iron clothes for a few days
    Pack clothes/toiletries
    Pack gifts
    Pack cocktail ingredients, beer, wine, more wine, HM Christmas pudding
    Pay CC bill
    Water houseplants
    Make turkey & stuffing sandwiches for the journey
    Tidy up a bit
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • greent
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    Cake looks yummy! The MSE (tightwad) part of me is :eek::eek: at throwing away excess orange pulp though - I'd be tempted to freeze it! :D:p
    I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul
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  • gallygirl
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    Proper lush indeed :drool:

    Save me a slice please!

    MWCx

    Will report back. But tasted proper lush while still in the bowl :).
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • muddywhitechicken
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    Still to do before we leave at midday tomorrow:

    [STRIKE]Dip candied orange peel in dark chocolate[/STRIKE]
    [STRIKE]Bake cookies[/STRIKE]
    Gifts to neighbours
    Pot up cheap pot of hyacinth bulbs into nice basket - I've hunted high & low and I can't find the bulb fibre in the shed - might need to give this a miss :(
    Iron clothes for a few days
    Pack clothes/toiletries
    Pack gifts
    Pack cocktail ingredients, beer, wine, more wine, HM Christmas pudding
    [STRIKE]Pay CC bill[/STRIKE]
    Water houseplants
    Make turkey & stuffing sandwiches for the journey
    Tidy up a bit

    :eek:

    Just having a restorative cup of tea and then I'll crack on with the list... to which I need to add:

    Clean chicken coop
    Write list for chickensitter
    Pay window cleaner
    Wash towels
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    And breathe!
    We're on the road and only 10 minutes late leaving!
    Merry Christmas everyone :)
    Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
    Mortgage-free: January 2021
    Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)
  • edinburgher
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    Merry Christmas MWC, and relax :)
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