Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

Wowzer, I've just noticed that my diary has had over a quarter of a million views :eek: :T

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Wowzer, I've just noticed that my diary has had over a quarter of a million views :eek: :T

:T wow that's superb :T

Ouch to car bill:eek: we may be facing one also - a very strong gust of wind pulled the car door out of Mr GG's hand and onto a wall :eek: Little Blue Car has her first dent and it's catching on the rear door opening

greent

Ouch to car bill Head gaskets are best fixed before they go totally, though - mine went on a car years ago and it created other engine problems


Do you mean the garage charge a 2% fee for CC payments?? Wow! I've never heard of a garage do that before (holiday companies, yes! )


xx

muddywhitechicken

greent wrote: »

Do you mean the garage charge a 2% fee for CC payments?? Wow! I've never heard of a garage do that before (holiday companies, yes! )

Yes!!! :mad: I'm not used to spending real money - I normally put everything on the CC and pay it off the next month.

I should be able to find enough cash without withdrawing money from the ISAs or regular saver - just - but it will mean using the money we have in a savings account for our niece and selling lots of eggs so I have some miscellaneous spending money!

Watty1

ouch to bill. That was a lot to be done. Hopefully will give you many miles of motoring without bills as a 'thank you' for that spend!

muddywhitechicken

Watty1 wrote: »

ouch to bill. That was a lot to be done. Hopefully will give you many miles of motoring without bills as a 'thank you' for that spend!

I hope so too Watty *fingers crossed*

The car really hasn't cost me very much over the last 7 years - just MOT, services, tyres, exhaust, brake pads etc.

Karmacat

Oh my word sorry to hear the bill was at that level

Your outlet spends sound good, but don't really balance that garage I hope today's better.

muddywhitechicken

I was very pleased with my outlet spends KC and I got a free £10 GV to use in any store in April. I could have made do with what I have for another month or two though... It never crossed my mind that the car would be so expensive (local garage thought it might have been a faulty sensor!)

In better news, I've lost 3.5 lbs this week - 9.5 lbs in 3 weeks and 4.5 lbs off goal :j

muddywhitechicken

4.5 mile walk in the sunshine after lunch to pick up pre-ordered plug plants from the garden centre with a 40% discount I was very restrained and didn't buy anything else! I then spent the rest of the afternoon potting them up and sowing more seeds.

Seeds already sown:
Herbs - parsley, coriander, basil - british outdoor and thai
Vegetables - swiss chard 'rainbow mix', salsola okahijiki (land seaweed), callaloo, mxed salad leaves, courgette 'sunstripe' and 'black beauty', kale 'nero di toscana' and 'scarlet', sweetcorn 'swift', chilli - padron and serrano
Flowers - cleome 'violet queen', french marigold 'kobold mix', larkspur 'kingsize scarlet', tithonia rotundiflora 'torch', hibiscus 'mahogany', nigella hispanica, californian poppy 'red chief', sunflower 'earthwalker', cornflower 'black ball', calendula 'neon'

Seeds still to sow:
Vegetables - dwarf runner bean 'pickwick', dwarf french bean 'purple teepee', lettuce - bronze-red cos 'dixter', radicchio 'firestorm', rapini, carrot 'rainbow mix'

Seedlings/plug plants:
Vegetables - tomato 'sungold', rocket
Flowers - zinnia 'zahara sunburst', gazania 'day break red shades', cosmos 'sonata carmine', pennisetum setaceum 'rubrum', sweetpea 'henry eckford'

Oops, that's rather a lot

I celebrated the weight loss with pizza and a glass of red wine for tea :drool: :rotfl: Our version of Waitrose's BNS & goat's cheese pizza using the frozen rosemary pizza dough topped with HM tomato & basil sauce, red onions fried with balsamic vinegar, BNS roasted with rosemary & garlic, light mozzarella and goat's cheese. The original has pine nuts as well but we forgot to add them.

Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 0

muddywhitechicken

Another lovely day

My brother and his GF popped in for lunch on their way home from holiday and then Mr MWC and I did a 6.8 mile walk from our box of walks (another 20,000+ step day :T)

I've worked up an appetite - Felicity Cloake's moussaka will be ready in 5 minutes :drool: and I'm having another glass of wine!