£21,000 to pay off -but we will do it this time.

pennywisepoundstupid

Good morning.

Another lazy day at home today, DS is laid on the sofa playing xbox (not dressed) and DD is still in bed, but it's the first week of the holidays so I always allow them a lazy week.

0nepoll have paid £40 into paypal, only taken 3 weeks so quite impressed, still waiting on voucher from toluna:mad:.

Meal plan for today has been altered due to lack of eggs, so going to make a cheesy pasta bake, breakfast is cereal and lunch will be sandwiches, cake and fruit, I currently have 3 eggs so will make some fairy cakes and some biscuits.

Chickens and GP have been fed and watered, will go and do pony later and take DD riding, hopefully she will be in a better mood than last night, she had a hissy fit because she had to poo pick agaaaain muuuuuuuuum, yes sweetie it's your pony you clean up after it .

Sorry for the boring post, but life here at the moment is slow and to be honest I quite like it that way, pottering around the house/ garden not having to rush anywhere is kinda nice.

Take care.x.

DebtFree2012

Far from boring Nice to hear things ticking over nicely for you.

Send her ragwort picking next lol - she'll be happy for the p00 pick then - we're sooo mean us mum's!

mummytogirls

Morning Pennywise,

Id love that kind of lifestyle but my children just do not allow it! Theyre borreeddd by 8am so this holiday im tiring them out taking them places all the the time! This morning they didnt want to go anywhere but id booked an opticians appt for 9.20 so they had to be up and out... mwhaha getting my own back!!! I hope that as they get older they will learn to chill out a bit!

Thats so funny about DD not wanting to clean up after the pony, sometimes they just have to learn the hard way dont they!!! xx

pennywisepoundstupid

Debtfree2012- that's cruel, but I like it .

Hi mummy - good to hear from you, my 2 are very chilled kids in all honesty and because of where we live and their age it's a bit easier to let them play, they can go up the lane on there bikes and play in the woodland, I've always encouraged them to make there own fun and because they are very close in age they get along fairly well and can do similar things, they both have friends come round and DD is at the age now that when she has friends round they tend to watch dvd's, paint their nails, gossip and giggle so I don't tend to know I have them, DS and his friends are happy with a football and plenty of food :rotfl:, life in some ways does seem to get easier with kids as they get older ( i will probably regret saying that).

PenguinJim

It sounds like you're doing really well, well done! I can't wait to have our own chickens! (No garden atm, boo!)

pennywisepoundstupid

HI penguinjim thanks for popping by, I love my chickens (even if i do keep threatening them with the pot for not laying), I can quite happily sit in the garden with a glass of vino and watch them, they are very therapeutic, I hope you manage to be in a position to have some one day.

pennywisepoundstupid

I have spent a very boring afternoon going through various survey accounts, did find I had several surveys in my GTM account, so did those which took me over 1000 points enabling me to redeem, withdrew £25 into paypal and a £3 st*rbucks voucher, had to get the st*rbucks to take me over the 1000 point minimum redeem, but I'm sure it will get used.

PenguinJim

pennywisepoundstupid wrote: »

HI penguinjim thanks for popping by, I love my chickens (even if i do keep threatening them with the pot for not laying), I can quite happily sit in the garden with a glass of vino and watch them, they are very therapeutic, I hope you manage to be in a position to have some one day.

It's pencilled in for a house move in about three years. Long-term I hope we'll have turkeys, too! (I just have no idea whether or not I'll be able to... I don't want to use the b-word.... "invite them for dinner" :eek: )

I'm sorry for the left-field post, but do you make ricotta at home? I was looking at cheese-making for quite some time yesterday, and bookmarked this rather scientific investigation into the best method. It looks like a super-easy way to get started before moving on to making your own cheddar (check out the "making your own cheese press" guide they do - all hard cheese needs to be pressed, but it looks so simple! :T).

Anyway, the reason I've waffled on is that I also spent a good deal of time looking at uses for the leftover whey. Not only is it apparently a great liquid for making delicious soups, but I saw one suggestion of combining it with chicken feed to give your chickens extra protein.

(Sometimes I get very bored in the office. And possibly hungry.)

pennywisepoundstupid

Hi PJ (hope you don't mind me calling you that), I have never made cheese but i've just had a look at you link and OMG it looks so easy, I have a few days without children next week so I'm going to have a go, ricotta drizzled with pesto nom nom and I'm sure the girls would enjoy the left over whey.

Turkeys:eek:, don't think I could cope with them and I'm a big wuss and would get attached and certainly couldn't eat them, last year DH mentioned getting a couple of lambs to fatten for the freezer to which I said ok as long as I don't have to have much to do with them, but he was talking about getting a couple that had been rejected/mother died and for me to bottle feed them and rear them :eek:, it would have been a disaster I would have cuddled them, named them and probably sent DH to slaughter before the sheep :rotfl:.

PenguinJim

PJ's fine. And I know what you mean! I just stumbled across cheese-making by accident, and couldn't believe it was so easy.

I also know what you mean about the animals. I have this (possibly overconfident) view that I could manage birds I've raised, just about, but probably not mammals. I do think we should be able to kill if we have meat in our diets. It seems fairer to me, somehow.

But then again, there's meat, and there's meat you know.

If I do ever manage it with chickens, it will have to be on the condition of giving them a wonderful life and showing them the greatest respect.