I tried my hand at some amateur black smithing. I heated up a butter knife in the fire, and used a hammer to bang it in half. I couldn't have done it without the fire.

I have started making an airfix jaguar e-type.

I did something special with fire.

The new cat, a nursing queen is apparently a good mother. I guess that the only problem is that she is very friendly, and if you stroke her she rolls over and squashes her kittens or throws them off her. 

We have tiny kittie cats!!!

We have got a new cat. It is a nursing queen with two two day old kittens. She is a beautiful tabby and white cat and her babies are beige and black and white.

We are getting something interesting that might require my table adjustment.

We have got a book from the library. It is about a man who went and lived in the Welsh hills for five years. I really like this book, it is a relaxing read.

Today, in order to accommodate the possibility of more kittens, I have heightened my table in order to fit another cage underneath. To hold the heightening blocks in place I have made some double headed nails. I made them by cutting the head off of a normal nail then holding it in place with a drill, I then spun it at high speeds and held a file at an angle against the cut head of the nail which shaved a fine point to it. It worked rather well I think, it would be nice to have a second cat or kittens at the same time.

Lyra purred for the first time today.

I have made a wooden box out of some old trellis and a bit of shed door.

The kittens went for their booster vaccinations yesterday evening. After they got home they were I bit grumpy. They wouldn't sit still and be stroked but would his and run away.

I have discovered a great YouTube channel.
The owner of this great channel is a plumber in real life but on his channel he is a mad inventor.
He make crazy rocket cars, turbo charged tuk-tuks and a working grapple gun from Assassins creed!!
I  think he make some fabulous things but some are just plain crazy!!!

Here is the recipe for cheese balls ( makes about 60):

    Ingredients: 1lb chicken breast in small pieces

                       1lb potatoes boiled slowly

                       1 heaped teaspoon minced fresh green chilli from a jar

                       1 heaped teaspoon crushed garlic

                       1 level teaspoon of salt and pepper each

                       6oz mature grated cheddar

                       2 dessert spoons of cornflower

                       1 small can of sweetcorn drained

Cook the chicken, chilli and garlic on low without oil or water, Then shred it a little with your fingers.

Cook the potatoes whole on a low heat, then peel and mash and leave to go cool.

Thicken two desert spoons of cornflour in a pan with some milk and the salt and pepper.

Mix the chicken, a small can sweet corn, the mashed potato, and the grated cheddar. Mix in enough cornflour sauce to make it all stick together. The  amount of sauce you will need depends on how much water the potatoes absorbed.

Roll the cooled mixture in to balls the size of large marbles then dip the balls in to beaten egg and then roll in breadcrumbs. Repeat the dipping and rolling process once more to keep the mixture in when you cook them.

Then you can cook them instantly or straight from the freezer.

We have made some cheese balls. They are made out of mashed potato, chopped chicken, squeaky sweet corn and plain ol' cheese. Bound with cornflour and milk and dipped in egg and coated in golden breadcrumbs.

Sometimes I get rather bad head aches. Mum got there from the shop and they seem to help. Maybe Iorek has a headache as well.

Our foster kittens are "play" fighting. I think they are play fighting like normal kittens, but Mum thinks they are more serious, especially the small one on top!

On the weekend my cousins came round to see the kittens.

Lyra the smaller kitten seems to be bullying Iorek. She is taking advantage of the factthat he is ill. She jumps on his back and I think they are play fighting but mum thinks she has an evil glint in her eye.

The kittens we are fostering are getting much more tame.