Wow! What a difficult 10 days or so. I’ve been struggling with the rationing, I’ll have a couple of good days cooking authentically and then just throw everything up in the air, swear loudly in my head, go and eat a packet of crackers or half a banana cake (that my eldest daughter made) and then have a little cry.

Honestly, I’ve been way sadder then I ever thought I’d be over the death of Truffle (my little Guinea pig). I keep seeing his little pink hind foot in my head and I get so upset. Things were made worse because I buried poor Truffle in his box, deeply into the ground, covered with a heavy slab and rocks around the side but I was devastated a few days later to find that a fox had dug down into Truffles grave and I found lumps of Truffles beautiful fur around the garden. I don’t blame the fox, it is nature, I blame myself and I can’t stop thinking of it in my head. RIP Truffle. I’m sorry xxxx

Updates:

• I had to cancel my monthly weigh in at the doctors as that was on the day I had to have Truffle put down. I need to rebook this in for a soon as possible so I can keep moving forward (which I’m not doing at the moment).
• I booked 2 nights away in a WW2 Corrugated Tin Cottage used by Land Army Girls during the war. This is near Glastonbury and I can’t wait to stay there in late summer.
• I’ve bought lots of various apples and bought a BARGAIN jam making pan (as it has an imperfect handle position) and bought a few new canning tools and jars. Next weekend we’ll be making lots of apple sauce, chutney and jam!
• I was blown away by an exceptionally generous donation through the blog (I’m not going to mention names as it’s not my place to) to thank me for all the content and it was for me to use on my short break in the WW2 Corrugated Tin Cottage. Any donations that come through are always used for paying for hosting, domains, software, even the odd item of kitchen ware to assist with the recipes so it’s a first to use a donation in this way. My first reaction was to send it back, I couldn’t possibly take it, but I know that we have to learn to accept people’s kindness and generosity. Thank you!!!

Today I’ll be planning my menu for the week. I have lots of potatoes that need using up that I keep in a paper bag in my “war store”. I also have lots of apples stored there too but those are for next weekend when I make preserves. I also have lots of carrots, wilting spring greens (I’ll fry those up tonight for dinner!), some salad leaves (enough for a few days), and onions. I also need to plan my points! I’ll share in full hopefully tomorrow evening.

Much love C xxxx