Snow again

Very cold again today.  I had to break the ice on the chicken and goat water.  They don't seem to mind the cold.  We've started letting the chickens out into the garden but they have a habit of making for our neighbbour's flower beds!  Perhaps because they have bark chippings on that they can spread everywhere.  They stay there a while until they've made a mess and eaten all the grubs they can find then move on elsewhere. We have had some snow flurries today but nothing like the amount we had just after Christmas when we couldn't get out for nearly a week.  At least it's getting lighter now in the mornings and evenings.

The snow we had at the beginning of January

How to make pancakes for Mardi Gras, or pancake day

thanks to nkzs at xcs for the photo

How to make pancakes for Mardi Gras, or pancake day.  Coming up very soon.  Or, just eat them anytime!  Find out how to make pancakes and get some ideas for fillings, both sweet and savoury.
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A Breton Ramble part 1 Emily Hobhouse

I've been meaning to write a blog for ages but somehow 'life' always got in the way. So now I've made time. I have no particular theme for my blog, just what is occupying me at the time.

I saw a piece about Emily Hobhouse last night that was very powerful. I'd never heard of her, have you? Essenatially she was a Cornish woman who annoyed authority! She went out to South Africa during the Boer war and kicked up a stink about the conditions that women and children were living in in the camps and the government eventually had to listen and take action. She returned to England and took up other causes, including the suffragettes. She eventually died a spinster, unknown and unloved in London. However in South Africa she was afforded a state funeral, the only foreigner ever to be given one. So now I'd like to find out more about her....