Not a bad 1st try :)

When at the West Mids Vegan Festival last week, was it really last week, where has the time gone………..on sale jammy doggers, yum yum.  Now in the summer I read an article about making these and thought something for me to try.  So since I was on my own this weekend as my boys have ventured to England, thought give them a try.

Here is the result, not bad, quite pleased & I know what I will be making for the Christmas stall at Bryn’s Christmas concert – vegan Jammy Doggers to go with the vegan Tiffin & Shortbread I usually churn out and everyone enjoys.  Amazing if they knew they were vegan wonder if they would be so keen.

The day after the Storm

Taking the day off today following the WMVegan Festival on Saturday.  So thought we would go to one of our favourite places, Aberaeron & see the after effects of the stormy weather which hit most of Southern England overnight.  We seemed to get away quite lightly, but the Sea was still something to make you stop and stare.  Sorry about the spray marks on the lens !

Brambles; our eldest dog........

Big relief yesterday when we took Brambles to the vet.  Not a young dog, she’s now 15 and survived a major stoke last year.

We noticed a large swelling on both sides of her neck and feared the worse, but it turned out to probably be blocked salvia glands and seems to be treatable fairly easily.  Time will tell but she seems as bright as normal today, so a good start.

Bread minus yeast

If you like bread, but the yeast in bread does not like you (problem I have) finding alternative recipes is very satisfying. 

This is Apple bread, basically oats, flower & ordinary Gala apples – recipe did suggest eggs, but obviously changed that to a small amount of soya flower in soya milk, just as good a binder and animal friendly to boot

A new door & an old dog !

Oz asking to come in!

Great excitement here yesterday when we had a new door fitted to the office (well we don’t get out much!).  Still needs varnishing but we think it looks lovely.

You might notice the industrial sized cat ‘flap’ in the bottom corner.  We can’t have a conventional cat flap for 2 reasons; Firstly we have so many cats crashing in and out they pull them off the hinges, and secondly our big dog Oz, likes nothing better than lying with his head peering out of the flap – again pulling it off the frame.

We usually have just have a flap shaped hole in the door for all to come and go, but it gets really cold in the winter so we’ve had a sliding cover fitted on the new door to keep the chill out!

Happy days.

Bunch of colour..............

Quite proud of these lovelies – sowed the seeds in the early Spring, nurtured to adult plants, kept them fed and watered during the Summer – this is the bunch I picked on the very last day of September.

Much loved, but always nervous cat - Feli

This is Feli, a much loved and missed cat who lived with us for a good number of years from when we moved down to West Wales.

Feli was a stray cat who roamed the area where we moved to in Corfe Castle in Dorset.  Some of the neighbours had been feeding him for years and we didn’t feel we could interfere too much when we arrived.

But he started coming into to be fed regularly, although wouldn’t let anyone  get near him, and when we decided to move to Wales we knew we had to take him with us.

To avoid any last minute dramas at moving time, we trapped him about a week before.  Feli was not happy.  He bit the vet who we had castrate him.  As we was so wild we put him into a cattery for ‘safe keeping’, and when we went to collect him for his move to Wales, he bit the lady who owned the cattery (she actually had to go to hospital) and bite Denise badly as well.

When we arrived here we let him out in a quite part of the house, we didn’t really see much of him but he took his food and we knew he was safe and his roaming days should be behind him.

He eventually started to come out and after some months fell in love with Womble, a very handsome cat already living here.  They were inseparable, mainly it has to be said because Feli wouldn’t leave Womble alone. Womble always looked like he could take it or leave it!

Although he was so very happy here, Feli never got over his fear of people and the only time we were able to hold him was when he eventually died a very peaceful death.