Anyone for cake?

I made a birthday cake for a colleague at work ….thought I wold keep it reasonably simple because I decorated in between nights and had to get some sleep…I had made a plan for what it would look like….somehow this is nothing like I had planned  …don’t know why I bothered really they never really come out the way I plan with the exception of the cheeseboard cake I did but I was so worried it would go wrong ( and it was my gift for a friends 50th) I stuck rigidly to the plan then.
Anyhoo thought I’d share the end result…don’t be fooled by the flowers going down the sides (they can hide a multitude of sins !).

Instant fencing…and not quite so instant gates.

We have fenced our back garden…somewhere for the dogs to be during the day when it’s nice weather rather than being cooped up in the house all day.

We can get hold of 5 metre pallets so decided they would make the perfect fence and be easily adapted t make gates….very cheap compared to “proper fencing” and I think nice looking. Never mind the smug feeling I get when I add up how much we saved and that we are recycling stuff and putting it to use for something else.

This was so easy as it fitted perfectly …instant fence!

and gates…..

Happy with these and when they are stained I think they will be as good as.

The future….well the future for our sheep anyway.

This is Cara…and her 3 babies ! 2 ewe lambs Roquie (Roquefort), Serra (Serra da Estrela) and a ram lamb Gordon (Gordonzola!)..the theme was to stay with cheese….well there had to be a bit of license somewhere..easier to shout Gordon than Gorgonzola all the time when you want him.

Anyhoo….Gordon is ours – my lovely friend Lyndal said if there was a ram born I could have him and so there he is (one looking at the grass). He was born on the 1st September and we are going to leave him as a ram.

The reason for this is because we want to get into trying to achieve some milk producing sheep. Gotlands produce a fair bit of milk each day but not as much as a good milk breed. So Gordon (who is an Awasi x East Fresian) is hopefully going to add his genes to the pool and hopefully have something to do with us producing something that does….we’ll wait and see. It’s going to be a way away but you have to start somewhere …it’ll be interesting to see and time will tell.