3BT – reward + walk = rewalk, can’t wait, so soft

1. I finish an unpleasant task a lot quicker than I expect which means I have time for a walk with the cats in the woods. They bounce and chase through the decaying leaves then follow me home. 2. I learn about herbs from one book and wild foods from the other. I can’t wait [...]

3BT – reds, shower, Carbon’s achievement

1. Three reds in the pan – both the vermilion peppers and dark maroon kidney beans stand out against the rich tomato sauce. 2. Even though I’m scared of the semi-dark (thanks to a lifetime of why-won’t-the-light-switch-work nightmares), showers without the light on are strangely soothing. 3. Carbon meows excitedly after he returns from a [...]

3BT – pate, cats, plunk-plink!, delights

1. The toast is evenly brown and perfectly crisp. The pate is strongly flavoured but delicious, and stirs in me the desire to make my own. I add it onto my “things to make” list. 2. Throughout the day, all the cats visit me at my desk. They sit on my knee between my body [...]

3BT – sugar, snow, dinner, snow #2

1) Jeremy returns from the shop with an armful of mini cakes. The sugar high silliness starts before we’d even open the packets. 2) Eyes light up, fingers point, the woman at the fish and chip shop will be delighted – it’s snowing outside. Soon we’ll start talking about the inevitable, unnecessary traffic chaos that [...]

Cats’ approval

Even before we finished unpacking, the house met with the (grainy, blue-tinged) cats’ approval.

The doorstep, she is popular today

They will get confused when there is more than one way in and out of the house. We will trip over them less.