Wintry Showers.

It has been a day of wintry showers but nothing worse than a little hail or sleet. Unlike the north of the country or Scotland where snow is falling. I thought about working outside, briefly, and then decided I'd stay inside. No school for me today so there was plenty of time for schoolwork preparation, housework, sewing and baking. I had bought another long fluffy hooded nightgown thing, a grey one with pointed ears, like an owl? It had taken me nearly 2 weeks to unpick the heavily embroidered eyes. Today I shortened the length but kept it longer than the white fleece I altered. I also removed the ears because they just looked silly.  Then I baked 2 kinds of biscuits for Peter to take in to work tomorrow. I have a lovely book with all sorts of delicious recipes but as usual each recipe needed 1 or 2 ingredients that I didn't have. So I just made up the recipes. I put lemon zest and juice in one batch and honey and mixed spice in the other. The lemon I had in the freezer. When I had needed lemons for other recipes but not needed the zest I grated the zest off anyway, added some lemon juice and froze them in little silicone sweet cases. When they were frozen I popped them out of the cases and into a plastic bag in the freezer handy for when I might need them.

I was in the sitting room this morning when I heard a commotion in the kitchen. It was much louder than the usual crashing about when the cats try to raid the compost bin scrap tub. Sure enough when I went in the kitchen a whole container of air gun pellets had been knocked on to the floor. They are like giant ball bearings and had rolled everywhere. As I started picking them up muttering darkly I noticed some small feathers around the place too. I tracked Speedy down to the sitting room where he had a robin in his mouth. I eventually pried his teeth open but it was too late for the robin which died in my hand. I was so cross and made Speedy stay outside for the rest of the morning. The robin must have flown in through the half door in the back room which I leave open to let fresh air into the place.