Cauliflower Cheese and the Case of the Mysterious Moving Bowl

Well, I've finally finished reading 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' which was a brilliant read. Although it's actually a factual account rather than a novel, it's very cleverly constructed so you feel like you are reading a story. Anyway, the murder case, upon which is is based,is riveting and had more suspects than you could shake a stick at.

My next book is 'The Moonstone' by Wilkie Collins; throughout 'Mr Whicher' there are references to Collins and Dickens who apparently drew on the murder case (which was hugely followed by the public at the time) when writing their novels - in particular, 'The Moonstone' and 'Bleak House'.

As it was so cold yesterday, and continues to be so, I put a china dish out on the grass which contained a tasty mix of lard and bird seed. This was to help out our friendly blackbird who we have been watching pitifully trying to act like a humming bird to feed from our hanging fat log. Anyway, this morning the quite heavy dish had moved quite a few metres across the grass. Hmmm, so what moved it? My bet is the fox we have seen a few times recently, otherwise it was a group effort by the local squirrels (I can just picture them grabbing a corner each and carrying it aloft').

This morning I made 18 portions of cauliflower cheese (a bit excessive I guess but they were for the freezer) I costed it out and they came out at about 90p a portion and the cheapest Asda sell them for is £1.58 so that's a pretty good saving I guess.

I caught the farming weather forecast this morning and although it looks like our area will avoid snow today, tomorrow it will be pretty much countrywide and we are on the cusp for Tuesday and Wednesday of where the weather map showed it sweeping in. Oh god, I just hate driving in snow.....