Sunday 29 November 2020

It's a girl!!!?? πŸ±πŸ’“

 I'll begin with a few updates:

1) I am making good progress with my sock! I am well into the heel now and starting to find it a bit tricky...but I am getting there! Hopefully by my next update I'll be able to show it to you on my foot!? Or maybe that's a bit too much of a challenge, we'll see!


2) Remember the apple cider vinegar I was making? I sieved out all the apples which had finished fermenting and poured it into this sweet bottle which i bought especially! Ta da! Now to see what I can use it for...


3) My nasturtiums which were caterpillar-ravaged back in the summer came back with great gusto and are still flowering now. I haven't been out in the garden much recently to notice them but when I saw these earlier I thought they definitely deserved a photo!


4) The biggest update of all.........last week was Juniper's first trip to the vets and guess what? Juniper is a girl!!! Or at least the vet was fairly sure....she said it was difficult to tell and that it would become clearer in a few weeks!! We were very shocked at first (I even used the word incredulous) and weren't sure what to do, but decided in the end that the vet was probably not wrong and made the switch to calling Juniper a she not a he. It took a few days but we are now used to Juniper being a baby girl. I think somewhere deep down we always knew she was too pretty to be a boy πŸ˜…



She often joins me to read the bible in the mornings.




Due to covid I couldn't wait in the waiting room at the vets, instead I was told to go for a walk until it was time for our appointment whilst they kept Juniper somewhere quiet in her cage. I saw some nice sights around town and the best part was meeting this massive black and white cat who was watching birds in the graveyard. You can't appreciate it from the photo but he was massive! I don't know whether it's just because I'm so used to tiny Juniper but I almost felt intimidated by this big cat coming towards me, he was really sweet and friendly though. Hopefully I'll see him again some time!


Perched on a gravestone.


Ed and I had a garden centre trip last week, the main purpose was to buy some christmas lights but of course we raided the reduced plant section and came home with quite a few bargains! We also got some daffodil bulbs which are now nice and snug under the soil in our newly dug flower bed. Can't wait to see them pop up in Spring!


Time for another beautiful sourdough loaf brought to you by Ed 🍞 this one had a nice swirly pattern from the banneton and it rose better than the last couple of loaves have done πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ yum yum bread.


Biscoff and marmalade, the combo of dreams.

And of course here are some more Juniper photos to finish off with because I really don't take photos of much else at the moment πŸ˜† she's too cute. She is getting more and more adventurous by the day and loves to use us as her personal climbing frames...the trouble is her claws are like tiny daggers so we're covered in scratches. She gets away with it though...just look at that face!

Finding new places to sleep.


We died of cuteness overload when we came home to find she'd been asleep in our bed 😭

She loves this spot!


Enjoy some sleeping kitten πŸ‘†πŸ‘†πŸ‘† xoxo

Sunday 22 November 2020

The one where I started knitting socks πŸ‘

This post features a random assortment of photos from the past couple of weeks...mainly of Juniper.

I'll start off with the most beautiful bread photo I have ever taken, this was last week's sourdough offering basking in the morning sun.


Some bright Autumn leaves from a Tuesday prayer walk to the woods:



Out of focus funghi.

A tree had fallen on the path so we had to turn back.


We have been enjoying watching Nigella on Monday nights, Ed made her lemon pavlova last week πŸ‹



A tree branch works as extra laundry drying space:


The thanksgiving cacti are in full bloom...peach, red, and white:



Juniper is learning to ride on my shoulder.

Starlings spotted on a morning run.

I've switched from regular face masks to these bandit masks at work because my ears have been so sore:


Time for some Juniper spam, he's just so cute it's hard to stop taking photos of him...



Spot him watching The Crown with us haha, we binged the whole of series 4 this week. Juniper mostly slept through it, or got the zoomies and attacked our feet whilst we watched. Speaking of shows, we also finished The Queen's Gambit which was soo goood 






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Another walk, in a different direction this time.......





A hedgehog hole.

I made butternut squash soup! It wasn't quite Sunday soup like I planned, more like Tuesday soup but it was yummy nonetheless.



The snails about to tuck into some fresh veggies:


This week's sourdough was made by Ed, it was nice and chewy with a crunchy crust:


Sleepy baby:


The new orchid buds are opening! And I'm knitting my first pair of socks! I was inspired by Attic24 because she shared the link to a simple pattern and a really nice brand of sock wool, I couldn't resist! Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you the link 😌 I wanted something a bit more challenging to do alongside my crochet blankets, so far it's been quite easy, the only struggle was getting to grips with holding the circular needle! I'm about to start turning the first heel so that might get trickier.....I'm really enjoying it though and I want to make socks for everyone I know!!!


Ed made us some raised beds! Very exciting πŸŒΎπŸ…πŸŒ±πŸŒΎπŸŒΎπŸŒ»πŸŒΏπŸ“


I'll finish off with some more kitten pics.........there's no such thing as too many kitten pics. (As I write this he's curled up asleep on my feet, it is a precious moment.)





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