Busy in the kitchen

Today was fine but bitterly cold. We had to take Spikey to the vet this morning and really didn't expect to bring him home but came away with a more perky cat, having had a anabolic steroid injection and with a prescription for human heart tablets to take as well as his cat heart tablets, diuretic and laxative. He is spending most of his time sleeping but seems a bit happier. I suppose we will sleep a lot when we are 147 years old.

We then had to do our stint in the OBAGS shop from 11-12 so by the time we got home really weren't in the mood for planting shallots so they are still in the box.

We did make a new batch of bird food and finished the first batch of ginger beer. The plant has been brewing away in the kitchin for the last week and it was time to boil up a syrup add lemon juice and bottle.

It made three litres with a little bit left over. Having tasted this, I can confirm that the recipe is correct when it says to leave it for a week for the yeasty taste to go.

I am a bit concerned whether the bottle tops will hold as it is still fizzing and we may come down tomorrow morning to find ginger beer all over the kitchen ceiling so maybe they will be assigned to the shed for a week.