Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

I've decided to have a WFH/TOIL/sick day

Things to do today:

- Mow lawn
- Tidy flower beds
- Clean bathroom
- Stocktake larder and make shopping list for later in the week (doing quite well using the supermarket money off coupons - £30 of free groceries in the past 4 weeks :T - running out of non-perishable things to buy now though...)
- Read Just finished Last Bus to Coffeeville (excellent) and about to start 2am at The Cat's Pajamas
- Catch-up with work e-mails from last week
- Start a report review
- Try not to annoy Mr MWC who is also WFH
- Go for a walk - hopefully for longer than yesterday's poor effort (1.5 miles)

muddywhitechicken

So I:

- mowed the lawn and tidied the flower beds
- deep-cleaned the chicken coop - red mite :eek::eek:
- walked 3.5 miles after dinner
- foraged a couple of handfuls of delicious yellow cherry plums

I didn't:

- work from home
- clean the bathroom

BookWorm

Still sounds like a productive day to me MWC Thanks for the book recommendations...I have ordered the first from the library...

muddywhitechicken

BookWorm wrote: »

Still sounds like a productive day to me MWC Thanks for the book recommendations...I have ordered the first from the library...

I hope you enjoy reading it. I've renewed my copy so that Mr MWC can read it too

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Glad you are feeling better and that the new chickens have settled in. X

muddywhitechicken

We went back to the cherry plum tree this evening!

apple_muncher

Ooh - there's one with fruit like that near me... Must go and investigate, but not right now!

muddywhitechicken

At long last, the new girls have names (but not necessarily new names...!)

White Star - Miss Betty
Rhode Star - Miss Mabel aka Miss LRH2
Bluebelle - Miss Georgina
Columbine - Miss Harriet
Bovans Nera - Miss Audrey

Eggs IN 1
Eggs OUT 0

I've still not worked out who's laying although I think I've narrowed it down to Miss Georgina or Miss Mabel

muddywhitechicken

apple_muncher wrote: »

Ooh - there's one with fruit like that near me... Must go and investigate, but not right now!

These one's taste like apricots :cool:

There are also plenty of trees with slightly larger yellow, red or red/yellow fruit that aren't quite ripe yet

muddywhitechicken

Mr MWC is feeding me well although I'm conscious that I haven't shared any recipes recently...

My favourite was a simple supper of spiced chickpeas and carrots using grilled carrots :drool: (and spinach instead of sorrel)

We've also had a puy lentil, spinach & bacon soup served with goat's cheese toasties

And smoky black bean & roast tomato soup