I was fully prepared for us to have to buy a new cooker, but the local electrician managed against all odds to fix the existing one. The reason for the short was very clear. This one was under the cooker and had been there for some time as there were quite a few poos in […]
Today is Sunday so this was my take on Sunday lunch without a cooker. Chop an onion and two large carrots. Add 500g stewing steak in pieces and a packet of high quality sausages cut in half. Take some potatoes and par cook them in the microwave (I use my microwave steamer). Put all the […]
So following last week’s cooker explosion, we are currently “cookerless”. Many people would have given up and lived on ready meals and sandwiches. but not me. We have a microwave, an air fryer and a slow cooker, so I have been experimenting with making full meals without an oven, hob or grill. A complication is […]
My Mum has done well on present choosing of late. As well as the brilliant rice/slow cooker she gave me for my birthday, she also gave R a great beanie for Christmas (note to the elderly this is an American term for a bobble hat). You may wonder why I am enthusiastic about the hat […]
This was the first day this year we made more solar electricity than we drew from the grid (i.e. the day Octopus pay us money rather than us paying them). You can see that we use a lot of electricity – around twice typical consumption for a four bed room house (although we effectively have […]
Lucky is distinctly overweight (R calls him Fatass). Unfortunately when we brought him in from his stray existence, we tempted him with food, and he was so ravenous that he was eating in excess of six pouches of cat food a day, plus copious amounts of milk. This has had a bad effect on his […]
It has been a while since we had sheep in our garden, but this small flock (three ewes and a ram) have been here a few days now. I wish they would stay as they help to keep the lawn under control. We are really going to have to decide what to do about the […]
We moved the camera to the floor of the shed to see if we could work out Ratty’s mode of ingress. Sure enough, he has gnawed his way through the door at the bottom, enabling him to get into the main shed from the space in the foundations where he clearly lives (click on the […]
Many years ago we had some plastic bins in our shed which we used to store seeds and nuts for the birds. Then we caught a field mouse in the seed bin and assumed that one of us had accidentally left the lid half off. A few days later, I opened the bin lid (which […]
Lucky is starting to be a nice (if rather odd) cat. He still occasionally vanishes for a day or two at a time, and we still have no idea of where he goes. But back in the house, he is now prepared to be stroked, tickled on his tummy and brushed. There are some tangles […]
