Making chicken feed of my mortgage

apple_muncher

Glad mr MWC made it home, even for a short while.

What car did your dad buy?!?

muddywhitechicken

Since Wednesday after I've only left the house to feed/water The Girls and the garden birds (including a fieldfare :j) and I'm starting to get cabin fever

I've just made a big pot of scotch broth for the weekend using a couple of sorry-looking lamb chops from the freezer. The freezer is looking very bare now :eek:

- chicken (2 x breast + 2 x wings)
- smoked haddock (1 portion)
- fishfingers (x 8)
- pork sausagemeat
- 1.5L HM chicken stock
- bolognese sauce (4 portions)
- 4 x 50g cheddar
- chickpeas & cannellini beans (1/2 tin of each) and a handful of homegrown borlotti beans
- red cabbage
- bread (1 loaf)
- mixed berries
- rhubarb
- stewed gooseberries
- 2 overripe bananas
- chillis
- HM curry paste

apple_muncher wrote: »

What car did your dad buy?!?

A Kia Sportage... not sure why he needs a SUV to potter around town in...*rolls eyes*

michelle09

Poor Mr MWC. At least the snow should have eased by Sunday?

Hehe, parents really never do what they're told!

Greying_Pilgrim

michelle09 wrote: »

Hehe, parents really never do what they're told!

Pay back for us kids, and all they years we never did as we were told?? :rotfl: I'm looking forward to my turn, and I shall wear purple and team it with zesty lime green...................... :rotfl:

Greying X

PS - with you on the 'cabin fever' muddy - and I've only been inside for 1 day!

muddywhitechicken

I was [STRIKE]a very boring child[/STRIKE] an :A :rotfl:

The snow is starting to thaw here but we don't need to go out, so we probably won't. Although, I might need to start rationing cups of tea if I want the milk to last until Monday and the garden birds may need to eat layers mash!

muddywhitechicken

Seen in my back garden this week

House sparrows
Blue, great, coal and long-tailed tits
Goldfinchs
Wren
Pied wagtail
Blackbirds
Starlings
Fieldfare
Collared dove
Magpie
Wood pigeons (:mad:)

but I haven't seen the robin this week

muddywhitechicken

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

but I haven't seen the robin this week

I saw him this afternoon :T

The thaw was quicker than expected so we went for a wander to the retail park - £26.81 on groceries for later in the week/month & bird seed and £7.09 on draught excluder tape for the front door (better late than never...!)

March grocery challenge = £ 39.36 (£26.81+£12.55 (spent earlier in the week))/£250.00

greent

I think you're the 6th or 7th person I've seen/ know have fieldfares come into their garden in the past week (I'd never heard of them before) - I've seen some great pics of them
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muddywhitechicken

greent wrote: »

I think you're the 6th or 7th person I've seen/ know have fieldfares come into their garden in the past week (I'd never heard of them before) - I've seen some great pics of them
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Yes, new to me too

muddywhitechicken

Yikes! AWOL for 8 weeks... bad MWC

:wave: I hope everyone is well - have I missed any huge news?

I've been busy doing not very much! Fending for myself (Mr MWC is still travelling a lot for business ) and trying to get fit/lose inches. Six weeks until we go to Croatia and my summer clothes are still a bit snug

My big news is that we're in the 20s after overpaying £10,000 so far this year :j