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

Pippilongstocking · 18 November 2013 at 7:00PM

beanielou wrote: »

£50 :eek: :eek:

Exactly Beanie!! - its not like I'm completely broke I am working but every week there's some other 'XXX money' that's needed.

I've checked my bank it was 6 weeks ago when the last lot was paid.

I'd say I don't mind but I do.

I'd rather send her with ingredients to be honest KC - there's also a lot of tin foil tubs etc getting sent home which can't be recycled here.

Grr grr grr.

My cash gets leached my leachy folks.

Its not cool.

Troglodyte - thanks for that link. And well done on hiding the pressies in a safe place -

One day I tell myself, someone, somewhere might be quoting me for such helpful gardening/growing stuff.

Darn that Alys and her wonderfulness. I really do think she stole my life, my hair, or at least my trowel and eye for a canny bit garden bargain. Ask Aunty McB-Wik she keeps telling me Alys stole my life.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Pippilongstocking · 18 November 2013 at 7:15PM

So I bladdered a potato with some lovely yummy prawns and old dip and I'm not dead so I call that a successful late lunch/tea.

The defrosted leftover chilli has had a revamp with a box of passatta and a lot of veg from the fridge and is saiting the girlchilds hunger tonight - i'll take some for lunch tomorrow.

Then perhaps a chilli wrap/cheese for tea tomorrow.

A NSD still - just need to rustle up a card for a chum tonight.

No PAD's yet - must get on to that if the TSB site is working again.

DD is hovering (she requires money, I require clean floors)

Dogs are snoring.

I'm off out in a bit but have done a 'fridge audit' and put a couple things in the freezer.

There's also a block of cheese dated Dec that's looking a bit dodgy I might take that back to the shop. Cheese is expensive don't you know.

Aside that no dead things in the fridge rotting out of sight. That's a result.

Did you see the new waste figures for the UK.

Average house throws out £60/month in food
One fifth all food average folk buy goes in the bin
Creating 4.2m tonnes rubbish each year in UK.

Bah that's a bit scary.

Not on our watches eh chaps?

muddywhitechicken · 18 November 2013 at 7:20PM

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

I've been looking at chicken coups and chooks.

Don't judge me! I know its too early but a gal can dream.

Hello :wave:

It's never too early to be thinking about chickens or coops :rotfl:

What do you have at the top of your wishlist?

MWC

Pippilongstocking · 18 November 2013 at 7:50PM

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Hello :wave:

It's never too early to be thinking about chickens or coops :rotfl:

What do you have at the top of your wishlist?

MWC

Hello there

Well I use to have Black Rocks on the west coast isles but couldn't get them easily here so I went over to ISA Broons which you could get from the wood shop locally

- and also got given a few Red Copper Marans - a while back (of which Einstein and a few of the girls were those I think although I'm not sure)

But like any future parent - I just want them happy and healthy

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Thanks for popping in - do you have any of your own and what types of chooks make you smile.

I'll make them a palace as long as they leave my new future veggies alone.

I'm a real egg fan but never bred my own to eat - not really into that. I know some are, but I'm more of a cooing egg finding kind of a gal.

troglodyte · 18 November 2013 at 8:08PM

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

DD is hovering (she requires money, I require clean floors)

Saw that and I imagined DD yogic flying while you mopped the floor beneath her; then I realised that perhaps there was an 'O' missing.:o Much more mundane. Made me smile though!

muddywhitechicken · 18 November 2013 at 8:30PM

Gorgeous photos of chooks & buttercups :cool:

I have 9 hens that all lay different colour eggs

living in a bright orange eglu cube (bought in the days when I had more money than sense

)

There are a couple of photos at the bottom of page 91 in my MFW diary.

They are spoilt pets really and the eggs are a delicious bonus :T

They all make me smile but my favourites are Miss Q (last of my original girls - a speckledy), Miss B aka Miss MWC (a naughty white star), Miss M (a green egg-laying skyline who demands that the drinker is emptied every morning so that she can drink out of a muddy puddle) and Miss Little Red Hen (a rhode star who trys to jump in the treat bucket every morning)

Greying_Pilgrim · 18 November 2013 at 9:11PM

Ay up

All sounding mostly good in here - well, apart from the £50 - ouch! If the young adults were being taught good healthy fodder receipts & techniques to keep them hail & hearty, whether for uni, apprenticeships, training and beyond, it'd cost about tuppence.......:rotfl: take your fruit pad into school and tell that teach to take a 'looks' about how things are done by us MSE cooks! :rotfl::rotfl:

MWC - lurving your chook pics

:D:D Bees and chooks for me one day..... maybe......

Trog - PMSL :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Greying

wik · 18 November 2013 at 10:12PM

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Exactly Beanie!! - its not like I'm completely broke I am working but every week there's some other 'XXX money' that's needed.

I've checked my bank it was 6 weeks ago when the last lot was paid.

I'd say I don't mind but I do.

I'd rather send her with ingredients to be honest KC - there's also a lot of tin foil tubs etc getting sent home which can't be recycled here.

Grr grr grr.

My cash gets leached my leachy folks.

Its not cool.

Troglodyte - thanks for that link. And well done on hiding the pressies in a safe place -

One day I tell myself, someone, somewhere might be quoting me for such helpful gardening/growing stuff.

Darn that Alys and her wonderfulness. I really do think she stole my life, my hair, or at least my trowel and eye for a canny bit garden bargain. Ask Aunty McB-Wik she keeps telling me Alys stole my life.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Yes!!! Alys stole pippi's life!! right down to the wellie wearing at all chances! but i bet she doesnt wear hers to ski resorts :rotfl:

as for the £50!!!!! what on earth are they cooking that costs that much! I do hope that is healthier cooking lessons! and can you say to the school that you shall be providing your own containers...

Think about the Head Gardener!! I can still remember my first Home Ec lesson at secondary school!!! we were to make open sandwhiches! and we didnt have all the ingredients, and mum was a wee bit strapped for cash!! so i was sent in with cabbage leaves instead of lettuce! Mum refused to conform :rotfl:

wik x

Pippilongstocking · 18 November 2013 at 11:35PM

Oh a crowded kitchen and yard how lovely.

I'm off to tinker with my spreadsheet a while if you'll excuse me as I'm determined to pay off something today but not be skint to I need to double check all the dd's..

Muchous grassyasses for the patience.