Mrs McB's countdown to adventures with chooks (and Rock Gods)

Karmacat

Oh my! Well done for researching budgetted amounts vs reality check :eek: £15 every week is huge, and so is, um, double your own travel costs :kisses3: Gentle stapling *might* be okay, but definitely no slapping, okay :rotfl:

Your linky to the recipes on the Orkney Zerowaste site is *amazing*, Pippi! The lentil curry one does sound a proper recipe, even tho its "just" lentils (I'm very much a bung-it-in cook) and that first one, for what they're calling a salad, is amazing, really, really fantastico . Tonight, I'll be having an ordinary salad - went to the local mini-supermarket with every intention of buying something fresh, and their tomatoes and lettuce were half price - and I fished out a big jar of beetroot, so I shall be terribly healthy tonight, thank heavens.

Hope you're nice and warm, and don't run out of wood for your fire tonight!

Pippilongstocking

KC I'm glad the link was helpful - there's some great work out there with rhubarb!



Travel money is always high but this year has been particularly bad, especially with the wedding.

I need to be realistic about trips next year once the budgets drawn up.

Tea was indeed delicious and the pot made it too

I'm going through my cook books tonight and being a bit selective about what I keep.

I've gone through the rest of them - 5 fiction books v's a billion cook/plant/gardening/id/travel books. I guess I'm not much of a novel reader - which is odd as I love them, but I don't own many.

Some of the nonfiction are doubles and that's just greedy.

I need to declutter some of them.

Mara_uk7

I delivered three boxes of books to the CLAN shop in town , came out with one new boxful .... Im Mara and Im a book addict !

Greying_Pilgrim

Ay up Pipster

I can see I am going to have to follow the LFHW recipe linkies too

Just away over the fence to me 'patch', but just wanted to be neighbourly and holler 'howdy' at ye! :D

Greying

Pippilongstocking

Mara_uk7 wrote: »

I delivered three boxes of books to the CLAN shop in town , came out with one new boxful .... Im Mara and Im a book addict !

Oh what did you put in them - oh no don't tell me - fellow book addict - we should run a club

We can build a clubhouse of books now there's a winter project - oh I had exciting news, Landward was in the learning factory 'office' today - airing later in December I hear - never seen the labs look so braw and shiny nor the beuys quite so polished and smiley!

And aye up Greying me dear.

I see the hungry foodie search party found you we've been missing your grub and as for mr Jamyee O - he's just not found you yet to be asking proper advice for any future publications

wik

My Name is Aunty C and I am a bookaholic... There is no cure and I dont mind

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wik

And this is only about 1/2 of them
My dad gets very huffy if he sees anymore coming into the house
These shelves are 2 deep!!! in places 3

Pippilongstocking

Waves to Wik - I've seen those shelves a lot fuller - you've clearly lost some

Bookaholics are a good read
I mean breed!

Payment a day's are as follows

£10 to the Captain card (no wine over weekend, so no spends, so the £5 for the wine of old habits long gone past gets paid to the card)

And

£5.50 to the Terrible card as its 5.20 over a certain amount and this takes it under the next 100

Used cash card for petrol again today so no extra spends on the cards.

I also moved the rent into savings account - which doesn't do much aside remind me its NOT for spending or paying off cards.

Things are beginning to get tight but I'll make sure and do my expenses this week and hand them in on Friday - invoice written shortly afterwards and emailed on Monday.

Now I have updated the DD spend budget and its scary - this month between stuff/driving lesson/school cooking/buses - she's had over £150 of cash which is normally unaccounted. And, we're by no means rolling in it.

Actually more than that with the flight I've got at xmas for her too.

Gadzooks.

I need to grow wings and a strong back.

Mara_uk7

Aww Pippi and there was me thinking you already had a pair of fluffy wings with matching halo .....

.... Ps mostly autobiography and fiction , i did chuck in a couple of cookbooks too , love reading them but never have real time to cook much.

Pippilongstocking

Mara_uk7 wrote: »

Aww Pippi and there was me thinking you already had a pair of fluffy wings with matching halo .....

.... Ps mostly autobiography and fiction , i did chuck in a couple of cookbooks too , love reading them but never have real time to cook much.

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Black ones maybe and a sooty halo although I do have a fine rainbow butterfly kite - a bit of baler twine and I could recycle it into a fine pair of wings - more baler twine for a lasoo - I could be onto something here - who needs Flyby airlines.

I read cook books in bed - no cooker, no fear of having to do anything at all so I don't feel guilty. I'm currently reading Nigella's 'How to Eat' (Dounby CBSale) and getting very hungry in bed - although the book is so heavy I'm generally pinned to the bed.

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