Making chicken feed of my mortgage

BookWorm

How frustrating!

muddywhitechicken

Very and, when I submit the expense claim, I'll get grief for not using my company CC...

Apart from that, I've had a lovely (but spendy) day - a makeover in JL and clothes/shoes/underwear/accessories for my new skinny minny autumn wardrobe

greent

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Very and, when I submit the expense claim, I'll get grief for not using my company CC...

Apart from that, I've had a lovely (but spendy) day - a makeover in JL and clothes/shoes/underwear/accessories for my new skinny minny autumn wardrobe

But what a fantastic reason to have a spendy day!:j:T


x

gallygirl

How lovely - hope you enjoyed it

muddywhitechicken

Very much

I have my shopping head on (not very common) - shame I have to work today!!!

muddywhitechicken

:wave:

Another successful weigh-in at chub club :T -1 lb this week, -2.5 stone since January :T

12 little eggs swapped with a neighbour for a bag of plums - some frozen for winter crumbles, the rest to be chutneyed

I've no oomph today We're off out for a walk once the rugby has finished so hopefully that'll kick start me!

ETA £36.76 claimed from TCB

muddywhitechicken

Spiced plum chutney made - I always forget how long it takes to make chutney...

More crab apples from the garden picked, cooked and dripping through a jelly bag

4 mile walk this morning + foraging for apples, wild plums, elderberries and sloes but no blackberries :eek: (luckily I still have some in the freezer) - I'll make hedgerow jelly later in the week

Found a walnut tree :cool: and 8 walnuts :rotfl:

Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 6 (box given to FIL)

greent

I was just eyeing up my mountains of Bramleys and contemplating spiced apple and pear chutney later in the week - definitely something to do once the children are back at school because of the time (and they hate the smell!)


We've been picking blackberries here since mid July (I know I picked my first handful before schools had broken up!) I'm trying not to pick too many as I'm trying to run the freezer down. I've also picked wild plums (made into jam mixed with plums from my mum's garden) and elderberries. Our sloes are nowhere near ready, though


There is a walnut tree right outside my youngest's school - I don't think anyone else has realised what it is - either that or they wouldn't be seen dead foraging! (on the edge of a slightly snooty area!) - last year I had the grand sum of 4 walnuts from it - 2 the year before!


Brilliant weight loss!
x

muddywhitechicken

8 walnuts is obviously a good haul then! I didn't get many sloes - there were only a couple of trees with ripe fruit - lots more to pick in coming weeks :T

I'm home alone (Mr MWC left for the airport at 04:30 :eek:) so my plans for a wet BH Monday are:

- [STRIKE]Go clothes shopping[/STRIKE] Shop online!
- Finish apple jelly
- Strain sloe gin made earlier in the year with frozen sloes
- Pamper myself
- Shuffle money and overpay the mortgage
- Update CP with recent purchases (£10 already claimed this morning)

Karmacat

I've found another set of sloe trees after the previous lot were torn down for new building and I've got some apples to stew today. I'm still not quite in a space where I can make products to be preserved, but I will be next year, and I'm looking forward to it.