Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

rtandon27

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Yeah to the new job Pips!!!!!
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Sooooooooooo happy for you!

Boo to pesky updates leaving you t'internetless - such a pain in the arriss!

We waved as we drove by the big smoke & wished you a happy visit!

Weekend home is slowly becoming devoid of clutter - soon oh soon we will be able to sell up!

Cheery_Daff

Welcome back Pippi :j SO excited about your new job :j :j

starnac

:j to new job. Well done you. Boo to no internet though. Glad you are okay. Was thinking of sending out a search party!

Horseygirl123

troglodyte wrote: »

Afternoon peeps!
It has been pouring down here all day, we are literally paddling in the garden. Thank goodness it's brightening up now! Our chickens are not enjoying paddling about. They have been doing well and have laid all through winter (though less than before) but we've had a lot of soft-shelled or thin-shelled eggs and I don't know why - any ideas?
Our latest news is that we've been accepted as 'puppy socialisers' for Dogs for the Disabled and we have our new puppy, a cute golden Labrador who arrived 3 weeks ago and is now 11 weeks old. That means I have even less time for chatting than before of course. If you want to know what he looks like - he's exactly like the Andrex puppy.

My free range chickens have mixed poultry grit but used to pick out the shells and leave the grit but I figured they were getting enough anyway whilst foraging. I started buying oystershells and they eat loads of this. Egg shells are very hard.

Great diary Pippi.

troglodyte

Thanks very much Pippi and Horseygirl, looks like more oyster shell is what's required. The stuff they get is a mix so perhaps not the best for the time of year - will let you know!


Has anyone tried the turnip cakes? I'm intrigued!


Glad you'reback online Pippi, and that you had a great holibob, and especially that you have a new job that you love! Congratulations, that sounds fab - tell us more details!

rtandon27

Hey up Trog - I've eaten the turnip cake many times before (not me made though) and it is very scrummy - recipe looks like a lot of effort but not sure how it would taste with substitutions!- RT

Pippilongstocking

Morning gals and non-gals (if any of you are lurking) hows life today a busy ole thread how lovely.

So today is a normal work from home day and a group session later, a walk, some gardening and maybe even some tidying.

I'm not sure about the last one.

Trog, job is helping mainly with some (specialist) propagation and plant sales. The 'specialist' is in brackets as, to be honest I don't want to think about how special some of this stuff is. Garden is a large estate less than 10 miles from home, perfect distance. 2 days a week, decent rate (I had to give them a ball park and you'd be proud cos I didn't opt for just anything, although it was hard). Garden is open to the public, has a large extensive woodland, linked borders around the house, huge walled garden with a prairie style planting of perennials and grasses. Tea room, shop, accommodation and has lots of p/t, f/t, volunteers and travelling workers as it also does the WWOOF scheme where you can come and stay and work for a few hours each day for cheap accommodation and grub.

Snowdrops are out at the mo in the woods, so the place is quite busy. to be honest I think its just what I needed, some nice chat with like minded folks and some graft.



Glad you got an answer to the hens

Oyster shells sound perfect.


RT turnip cake is lush!! I know it looks a bit like a faff but, if you do give it a go let us know. I'm so lazy I bought my stuff from the chinese supermarket frozen dumpling section

Horseygirl 123 - thank you very much for your help and nice to see you.

Starnac, you'd know where to find me, in the garden somewhere Cheery waves hello lass, hope you're good

And time for a cuppa, banks etc. I'mm so bad I've really let the money side of things slip.

Bad pippi.

Pippilongstocking

£135 to CC paying off holiday spends. Which were budgeted but still on card to pay off.

Wages for my first week are in, this being paid weekly lark, is quite nice and the ladies in the office are really lovely, I got paid today. how cool is that.

Banks OK BT DD is off £47, sheesh, the joys of country living and limited service eh?

My ticket was sent off yesterday for east coast trains as the first train to london was delayed so I missed my connections. We'll see what happens with that. If you don't apply you can't get it right.

Off to check other cards etc.

Pippilongstocking

Banks done, wages paid to card. A job well done.

Today's plan

Paid work (home)
Meals - have mince to turn into spag bog with my 15p tinned toms
Eat from cupboards
Meeting - do washing when over that way
Walk les mutts
Couple hours in garden and chop logs
fridge audit - check if anything needs frozen think there's mince in there to put in freezer
Tatties to shed, got a 25kg bag for £5 so need store them properly.
send notes to holiday folks of what got put on my card
Tidy up a bit
Find out how chicken is escaping
Start off more seeds, sweetpeas are soaked and plump for planting
Plant up snow drop thinnings from road kill at side of road by farm (man said to help myself)
Text a chum maybe meet for a cuppa
Text a chum about eggs
Speak to brother about helping fix raised beds


Shonky meal plan

Mon - mince tatties
Tues - Noodles/beef, duck pancakes
Wed - Spag bog
Thurs - noodle soup with fish
Friday - kids home chinese meal I think with dumplings etc
Sat - roasty dinner
Sun - leftovers, kids go

starnac

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Starnac, you'd know where to find me, in the garden somewhere

I know but I was getting concerned after the picture TRG put on FB! :eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That job sounds ideal for you. Well done for not accepting anything pay wise though. And yay to being paid weekly! Sometimes that really helps.