SF's road to mortgage freedom!

Worry_Wart

I gave in and put the heating on yesterday! I was attempting to make some sourdough starter culture, and decided it wasn't working as the house was too cold. The culture started to grow but was then covered in furry mould when I looked at it again today
I'm going to wait and see if we get a late burst of warm weather and try it again then.

Chicken fajitas sounds good. I'm making a courgette pie tonight. I made courgette cake yesterday, and had courgette and bacon pasta for lunch. I'm overrun with the damn things!

WishIwasstill25

Worry, please can you share your sourdough starter recipe? I'd love to have one....

Thanks
Wish

Jo4

Our heating has been on most days over the last two weeks!! It is more like autumn than summer.

Habibiboo

:wave:

Glad you had a great hol SF and what an exciting decision, good luck!

Agree about the autumnal nip, had a fleece blankly over my knees last night as I was wearing a dress and legs got bally freezing!

Re: page views, try not to get too hung up on this, it doesn't have to be anything you've done, these things go in cycles as spam bot visits tend to come in groups (which would lead to that larger number) ... better to have 18 genuine people views that lots of spam bots. Also people have peak periods for visiting too ... such as evenings and weekends. Maybe you have lots of followers / readers who have more time mid week then spend Thursdays catching up with work? Seriously the analysis of this could be never ending, so don't fret, your content's good and you have people commenting so you know you have genuine visitors, it's all good!

Enjoy the rest of your holidays, because it sounds like this time next summer you could be getting very little you-time! x

edinburgher

slowlyfading wrote: »

I need to stop googling things :wall::wall::wall: convinced myself we won't ever conceive. I need to stop stressing myself out!

Please do - speaking as a man who has seen this sort of obsession from the other side, it can be very frustrating! There is only so much you can do to help these things along, the rest is luck (and practice)

ljaneyr

I'm so jealous of you lot with your heating! i have resisted switching of the oil-filled radiators because they cost us squillions of £ last Christmas when we ran out of wood for the fire. I have used the fan heater in the bathroom though

Worry_Wart

WishIwasstill25 wrote: »

Worry, please can you share your sourdough starter recipe? I'd love to have one....

Thanks
Wish

It was 50g spelt flour, 50g bread flour, whisked together with 100ml tepid water. I then placed it in a kilner jar with the lid open for a few hours, then closed the lid but left it open a crack. It took a while to get going (about 30 hours in all), but the house was cold, and it started doing stuff after I put the heating on during the second day.

I'm going to try again tomorrow - hopefully this time without added mould! I'll post back if it works...

gallygirl

2 x 1hr heating today :mad:. Though as I'm very cold blooded I'm actually quite proud of myself for lasting this long. Guy at work who goes sea kayaking round the Shetlands gave in last weekend:rotfl:.

edinburgher

Wusses! Ours isn't going on 'til we get back from Crete (at the earliest)

hanging_on_in_there...

We gave in last night and put (living flame) gas fire on whilst watching telly...thicker duvet on the bed a few nights ago too! Years ago it was 'sex or shiver' !!! Now it's just shiver!!! LOL !!!