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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    Karmacat wrote: »
    Yikes to the train ticket discount - tell me you don't usually pay full price for train tickets, please :eek:

    Yes, if we're going into London for the day
    No, if we're going further afield
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  • muddywhitechicken
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    Niece has gone home, we're exhausted :rotfl:

    Today we picked and ate lots of raspberries and cherry tomatoes, red cos lettuce, some basil and 4 figs :T

    Eggs IN 6
    Eggs OUT 6 (niece took 1 box home with her)
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  • CathT
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    Your garden is so productive!
    June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!
  • muddywhitechicken
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    CathT wrote: »
    Your garden is so productive!

    We've done quite well this year :T better than than last year but still room for improvement (must try harder with regular watering and plant supports!)

    Plan for today:

    Gym? (CBA but will go if Mr MWC goes)
    Housework
    Quick trip to garden centre (to buy MP compost using reward voucher that expires this month)
    Grocery shopping
    Pressure wash the chicken coop
    Potter in garden
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  • BookWorm
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »

    Potter in garden

    Nothing like a bit of pottering for a happy BH - enjoy! :)
  • smallholdingsister
    smallholdingsister Posts: 4,018 Forumite
    The figs sound lovely!
  • muddywhitechicken
    muddywhitechicken Posts: 3,940 Forumite
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    BookWorm wrote: »
    Nothing like a bit of pottering for a happy BH - enjoy! :)

    Thank you! I'm not one for sitting in the garden but there's nothing I like more than dead-heading, pulling weeds and getting mud under my finger nails :D
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  • muddywhitechicken
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    smallholdingsister wrote: »
    The figs sound lovely!

    Really delicious SHS :)
    I don't think that any more will ripen though :(

    The gym hasn't/isn't happening but we will go for a walk this evening and I'm WFH tomorrow so I WILL go to the gym for longer than I would on a normal working day... and I'm back to counting WW points as a few pounds have crept on :naughty:

    17 days until we fly to Chicago :)
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  • muddywhitechicken
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    Today we picked and ate: new potatoes, sweetcorn, endive, rocket, chard, parsley & cherry tomatoes :)

    I also consumed a bottle of pink fizz (thanks Tilly!) to survive a visit from The Dads & That Woman :o

    Earlier we had a successful trip to the garden centre :D 11 packets of seeds (10 x vegetable/herb + 1 x RSPB butterfly & bee collection) £32.45 RRP for £1.50 :T (reduced to 50p/packet - £4 reward voucher)

    Eggs IN 4
    Eggs OUT 2 (hardboiled and added to potato salad)
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  • Karmacat
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    muddywhitechicken wrote: »
    Today we picked and ate: new potatoes, sweetcorn, endive, rocket, chard, parsley & cherry tomatoes :)
    Thats a really impressive list. The seed packets are impressive too, but I love this list :j well done you.
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