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

Greying_Pilgrim

starnac wrote: »

How can we believe anything you say now???

Thanks for the recipe Greying. I wouldn't mind checking it out x

Ay up starnac - you're so right! I should be dismissed from the culinary corps - my pinny confiscated and my wooden spoon sent orf for firewood :rotfl:

Anyway - hope all is good with you and yours. Lovely to see you back and posting.

Hope your run has gone well this morning

Greying

EssexHebridean

Well done on the tax thing - I have to confess I loathe doing it, but loathe having it hanging over my head MORE, so my target is always to have it done within a month of getting the "Notice to file" in April. So far I've always managed it. I know that he longer I leave it, the tougher it will be to get all the figures together, too, because everything is further in the past, if you know what I mean. I still work on the basis of 25% of total income getting saved against it too - this means we save a bit for ourselves extra alongside what the taxman will claim.

On the PAD front Pippi, can you do what some people do with Virtual Sealed potting and round down your bank account to the nearest £5 each time you log in, and PAD the "loose change" to somewhere?

Weekend - today will be a pottering sort of day I think. Tomorrow we're the doing the first section of our planned Thames Path walk, which is very exciting! :T Have a good one yourself Stripes, and remember - weekends are NOT for working!

rtandon27

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

So what the rest of you upto???????

Inadvertently slept in!:eek:

...and the OH let me! :eek::eek:

That's four hours of productive weekend out the window...:o

... not so bad as still recovering from the worst cold of my life & first week back with nose to grindstone...

...actual plans involve the usual - laundry, online grocery order, tidying the house, meal plan, creating to-do lists, inserting important dates into annual planner - nothing overly exciting, but all necessary...

On another note - we bought a new cheese yesterday - Nocciolo - a two inch cube of bliss! - slightly nutty in flavour, creamy & spreadable in texture - and of course red stickered - the only way to purchase posh cheese!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

Hello RT! Yep, I'm weird like that - I hate sleeping in on the weekend, I love that sense of having a long day in front of me

Cheese sounds to die for **slurps**

I've been out admiring the Sussex countryside - managed to get out early enough to photo some of the frost effects, my word it melted fast!

Pippilongstocking

Hey up me ducks

I had an internet free day yesterday and just in from a long walk today and chopped some logs so I'm having a warm up cuppa now.



Hope you're all good and having fun adventures.

RT that cheese sounds lovely - I've just finished my Saint Agur (sniffs) and I have to say aside a bit of cheddar and parmasen we have no cheese in the house.

I may need a lie down.

KC - hope the walk was lovely frosty here (Unusual) I'm glad you got out too. I do like a long weekend day - my body is just not great at waking up.

Greying - yer pinny is fine I think nae wooden spoons on the fire either - shudder to think.

Starnac sounds like you'll have your hands full too!

EH - loving the sound of the walk! And glad you've god tatties again.

I'm going to have a quietish afternoon DD is off out to a movie in town - I've done the shopping (yesterday) - and we spent roughly £20

So I've made a fair dint into my budget but we'll try and make it stretch.

A few extras like light bulbs, dog food and hoover bags have snagged some of the loot.

I'm liking having 'proper money' out in a purse when I'm shopping as its making me more canny.

Busy work week ahead so must fathom a plan.

Couple job applications to work on too.




Car insurance is also due so must make a plan about that and see if my renewal is worth the money it's email says it is.

Pippilongstocking

EssexHebridean wrote: »

On the PAD front Pippi, can you do what some people do with Virtual Sealed potting and round down your bank account to the nearest £5 each time you log in, and PAD the "loose change" to somewhere?

:T Have a good one yourself Stripes, and remember - weekends are NOT for working!

I thank you for this I'll have a look at it. I guess money shuffling it into one of the online savers is a plan.

Ponders.

Thanks and I'm not working at work IYSWIM!

:A

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

Hello RT! Yep, I'm weird like that - I hate sleeping in on the weekend...

:hello:KC - good to 'see' you again!
Funny that - eh? - I struggle to get up during the week to get to work - OH has been know to quite literally push me out of bed! On the weekends though, if I'm not up at the crack of dawn feels like I'm wasting time!

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

...I have to say aside a bit of cheddar and parmasen we have no cheese in the house.

I may need a lie down...

Yikes Pips - NO CHEESE?!?!? - I may have to lie down for you!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
We are still working our way through the freezer cheese drawer - made a lasagna last week with some Polish Ricotta - lovely meaty texture (shhh - don't tell OH I fed him something vegetarian) did us for three meals & was simply delish!
Saw that loverly Paul the baker on TV earlier today making an apple Wensleydale pie - think that may be a good way to use up the apricot Wensleydale chunk that's in the freezer! - not sure what looked more lucious - his dreamy twinkly eyes or the apple pie!

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

...I guess money shuffling it into one of the online savers is a plan...

Think I'll join you in banking things online today - Her Majesty returned a grand sum of almost £400 pounds to me after I had a right moan about having the wrong tax code! - don't know where the code came from considering I haven't contracted since back at the end of 2011! - wondering what the best plan for this windfall is?! - can it go somewhere and earn me a bit? - or is this just wishful thinking with interest rates so dismally low! - did some reading up on bonds the other day & it might be fun to buy some just for the 'lottery' aspect of it, considering rates are no worse than the savings accounts!

cazmanian_minx

*waves from the other side of the Pentland Firth*

I've spent this afternoon reading this from start to finish and would like to make an important public service announcement.

Patties are available on the mainland at Reid's Chip Shop in Thurso

*subscribes*

Greying_Pilgrim

Ay up Pippi - I know you are super doper busy at the mo, but I was listening to the Food Programme on R4 this afternoon, and I thought of you. They were re-visiting 3 of the finalists from the initial Food & Farming awards, who had been in the 'best cook' category.

This is a bit of a misnomer, as they were all really cooks/pioneers in institutions, that actually changed the concept of 'food as fuel' into 'food as healer', 'food as community', 'food as a bridge', 'cooking as restorative'. I thought that it may be of interest to you, not only for your current role, but ooh y'know as a point of interest in knowing of examples from the wider picture..... should anyone ask you questions about such things :whistle:

A linky HERE should you have a spare 25 mins or so..............

Oh, and PS, I'm not so sure you should admit to having low cheese stocks...... I can see EH imploring a cow to stand still whilst she sticks a book of postage stamps on it as I type......... :rotfl:

Greying

Pippilongstocking

Back home for a slurp of a cuppa hot chocolate and a catch up.

Today's been a busy one
Done some teaching (of sorts my poor student had a test)
Work miles covered by job so a petrol neutral day
Walked hounds at both jobs first in AM second in PM
Took lunch so a lunch neutral day too
Worked on application for new job (s) over lunch break and did some research
Gained some free wood from the beach - more chopping later.


Still to do today
Tea from stores
Walk hounds more
Take meal plan from head and put it on paper
Hair to redo
Skype Mr RG
Chop more wood in a while
Washing to do and air dry
Bit more work admin to round off todays hours
A bit of wii to help keep the body moving
Must also sellotape chops shut as I've put on nearly 3/4 stone over the holidays by 'lolling'.
More work on job applications - and I'm keeping my diary clear the week of the interviews, in a positive frame of mind, as you do.

Waves to CAZ_M - (oddly enough my sis's nickname - have you moved!) and I'm thankful for the info about the patties much appreciate you popping in.

Greying thank you I'll put that on my to do list for later -- I'm not so much busy but still, it would seem, wandering around like a headless chicken. And, the info would be lovely as 'background' reading too very thoughtful of you to put up the link thank you!

RT - I know I'm a bit panicked to be honest. And YAY on the extra money - well done you for doing, something fabby right somewhere even if you don't know quite what it was yet.......I'm sure it was awesome!

My new years resolution was to be mindful right (?) perhaps I should also include myself in that.