Time to Diet?

 

  Too  . . .

  

 

            . . .   much  . . . 

                                                                

  . . .  Cake!        

                                                                                                   

Toad in the Hole

Found this fine fellow while working on the ongoing 'kitchen courtyard' project - and while maybe he wasn't quite in a hole, the courtyard area itself had certainly become something of one.

It's space we've always rather under-utilised, and it had gotten very scratty.  So in the spirit of lockdown home improvement, we've been clearing out the ivy and weeds from the surrounding walls, and dismantling the old pots with half dead bits of bush in them.  

Hopefully we'll end up with something a bit more attractive, where we might actually want to sit out on a sunny evening - although it's still a work in progress at the moment . . .

Birthday Visit

With lockdown finally relaxing, and visitors to Wales now 'legal' - time for a family visit to celebrate another 'special birthday' . . .

The weather could have been kinder perhaps (managed to rain on us more than we would have liked) but we did have one sunny-ish trip to Aberaeron - spookily found pictured (well the Harbourmaster anyway) on one of Dad's birthday cards . . .

At least the sun shone for the birthday celebrations (barbecue in the garden), and we got out and about a bit despite the rain.

And wasn't he a cute baby!

Copper Creations

Had been looking for a towel rail solution for the guest bedroom for a while - but the wooden towel ladders I was looking at all seemed quite expensive for what they were.

Then while surfing the web came across people selling structures made from copper piping.









So here we go - all the bits purchased from Screwfix . . .  some assembly required (courtesy of Martin) . . .

Et voila - one shiny new towel ladder:

Further Adventures in Sourdough

One month on, and our sourdough experiments continue - still haven't made an entirely successful loaf, but the crumpets (made with discard) came out pretty well.

And the pitta breads really are something of a success story . . .

Water Works

The latest garden 'civil engineering' project involved getting a water supply to the bottom section of the garden by the fruit cage.

Martin dug out a channel from the tap at the back of the garage and laid some barrier pipe, with further protection from various bits of scrap metal piping / trunking we had lying about the place.  

All of which led down the garden, through the hedge, and to a new standpoint and tap by the fruit cage.

So we now have a ready water supply when needed without dragging a hose all round the garden.  

Although - of course - the weather has now changed, and it's been raining a fair bit so we haven't really had to use it yet!

 

Flown the Pot

Well, as of today our little one has apparently departed for the big wide world outside the safety of the chimney pot.




And cheeping has been heard down the bottom of the garden, so it looks like we got him or her safely to the fledging stage  . . .



We did get a few videos inside the pot - so for your viewing pleasure . . .

Feeding Time

Getting Moving!

And one final pic from the day before departure . . .