I want to start by noting that today is the 20th anniversary of this blog.  Yeah, I know, how did that happen?!  :)  Thank you Dad for buying me my first digital camera and telling me that you didn't understand what I was doing with 4.5 acres of land in Wales and that you needed an explanation (accompanied by photos)....  Hope you're still learning something from this 20 years on!  :)

In other news, the weather has been lovely this week and I've had a couple of swims -- running total for the year thus far is now 17.  The sea is still cold (duh) but having the warmth on your skin when you get out and not being desperate to get dry and changed ASAP makes a huge difference...

Yesterday was my bimonthly highlight -- library day!

In slightly less exciting but possibly more important news, we had the septic tank emptied...  Danny has now gone and cleared out all the drains/pipework so fingers crossed the system will work properly now and not require anything in the way of maintenance...

In the kitchen this week:

Trout cakes (adapted from your tuna croquettes Dad!) made with trout that Danny caught in the loch, with homemade aioli from the lovely coloured eggs (thank you chickens!)...

Speaking of trout -- they look not that dissimilar to each other from the outside, but the insides are completely different colours of flesh!  Insights welcome...

Back to the kitchen, in addition to reducing the price of the eggs for sale (which is working), I've also got rid of some of the glut by making a fresh batch of pickled eggs.  The remaining few from last year are in the jar on the right.

...and we also had a yummy wild Greylag goose leg ragu!  TBH, if I didn't know it was goose, you could have told me it was beef and I would have believed you....

AND, lambing starts in 10 days!!!!  Woo hoo!  :)