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It has been a very full on year so far. We have spent a lot of time and effort away from our usual self sufficient-ish pursuits. Today was a Lazy Day. To commerate the 20 anniversary of the Harry Potter Films Lego organised a magical mystery hunt in London, Cardiff and Edinburgh.
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I’ve spent my time at home the last few weekends trying to keep the monsters entertained so we’ve re-tread a few old ideas again.
Continue reading “Trapped With Monsters”Hi EmmCee and I have been unusually busy since Christmas hance the lack of recent posts. The Good Life stuff has slowed down but hopefully we’ll resume soon. So whilst feeding the chickens, gardening etc coontinue it is all at a lower tempo. The main reason for this is we will soon be relocating and our efforts have been around tarting up and selling the current Fat Cat’s Patch and looking for the next Patch.
Watch this space hopefully we’ll have something to share soon.
As is the tradition for this year another brief update. Blossom is now in bloom and the garden is definitely waking from it’s winter slumber if a little later this year because of the prolonged cold spell. By and large the apple trees are doing ell and the blossom is a clear indication of this.
Continue reading “Spring Update – Apple Blossom in Bloom”
A quick winter update, we started the year with our now ritual wassailing of the apple trees. The kids love to our the perimeter of the garden banging pans wearing silly hats and scaring away the evil spirits. Once again we hung toast on the trees having dipped it in last years cider. Our encumbent Old Man Apple tree hadn’t faired well over winter and had toppled in gales so a new Old Man Apple Tree was crowned next to the workshop.
Continue reading “Winter Update – Post Cristmas”
Just a very short post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Continue reading “Merry Christmas”
The summer returned with a last fling in mid October so we had a quick trip out to the beach at Porthcawl near Treco Bay. Despite the water being cold the Monsters decided it was time to paddle followed by a quick picnic.
Continue reading “Late Autumn Activities”
Well autumn is well and truly here. For my legions of oversees admirers autumn is the British word for what the Americans call Fall. Astronomical autumn falls 21st September to 21st December in line with the equinoxes. However those crazy meteorologists say 1st September to 1st December.
In the last few weeks I’ve been doing a few outdoors jobs like mowing and strimming the garden before winter. I’ve done some more work on the tree house. We collected some apples from the smaller 4 apple trees. I also got the chainsaw out and cut and split some wood for the wood store.
Continue reading “Living La Vida Lockdown – Autumn Update”
I haven’t done any interesting cooking with the monsters for a while, so I decided they might enjoy having a go at some breakfast sausages. I’ve had mixed success in the past with sausages. Despite having all the right butchery equipment I’ve never quite got the consistency or taste quite right. So never one to shirk a challenge I doubled down by including the monsters in the process.
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So as I’ve posted before I’ve done some hot smoking in the past using my Callow Smoker. But I asked EmmCee for a cold smoke generator for my birthday and she duly delivered. So this is my first effort at cold smoking.
Continue reading “Cold Smoking – first steps”