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My optimism about integrating Nenya and Fankil cats took a serious knock yesterday at 6am, when SOMEONE managed to pull the living room door open.

I don't know if it was Fankil trying to get out or Nenya trying to get in. The first I knew was the sound of a serious cat-fight occurring, and I flew out to stop it to see Nenya flying madly down the stairs with Fankil on her tail. It's all a bit of a blur, and I'm not sure if Fankil broke off the chase or if I managed to stop it: either way, thankfully Fankil did not follow Nenya out of the cat flap. Once I had got them all back where they were supposed to be, I discovered that Nenya had been either scratched or bitten on her bum. Not badly, but still.

So, we regroup. If I had realised that Fankil might be about to encounter another cat face to face I would not have allowed him access to the catnip. He's definitely our most catnip-focussed cat. :-/

I started a new sourdough today. I enjoyed experimenting with sourdough back in 2020, and now the house move is over, I'm going to try resuming that. Though there is a rather nice local bread available here named Vortigern, with a dragon on the label, which is definitely a selling point.
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And frankly I am starting to think it's not going to happen before Christmas now, but hey.  Our solicitor vanished on us. A new solicitor respawned, but we get the impression that the new solicitor is doing the work of two (or maybe six, who knows) and though we keep getting emails saying things will be done by.... they are not.

Today some people came to see our Cornwall house, and made an offer but the offer was very small, so no.  The previous people who made a nicer offer that we couldn't accept because they hadn't sold their previous house have now sold it, but changed their mind about which house to buy. (the people before that who made an offer also changed their minds...) This house-moving lark is rather wearing, and we haven't even got to the actual moving bit yet.

However!  I did make bread with my sourdough starter and it was FABULOUS so I'm making some more.  I also like the fact that instead of spooning out half the starter and throwing it away when I feed it, I can spoon it into a frying pan and make crumpets.  I had sourdough crumpets this evening with a sauce made by chucking some frozen berries, a spoonful of sugar and a knob of butter into the pan with the cooking crumpets, and will definitely do that again. 
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I missed out on the sourdough starter craze of early 2020 because we had some dried yeast in the cupboard during the Great Bread Shortage, and also the village post office which has its finger firmly on the pulse, almost immediately started selling yeast and bagged flour from the wholefoods supply place around the corner, so we were never really breadless, and I was also busy fighting the garden at that point.

None the less, I think yeast is amazing, and have always vaguely felt like trying capturing some wild yeast.

So on Sunday, I made a flour and water mix and left it on the mantlepiece, and now I have a large enthusiastically- bubbling thing already!  It certainly *smells* very bready.   I am waiting for it to finish eating the second lot of flour I fed it and start to look a bit hungry before I feed again.  I wasn't expecting it to take off so fast, so I didn't mark the jar after the first feeding, as shown here.  I marked it at 10:30 am today instead, since it was clearly growing enthusiastically, but I'm not sure if it has quite doubled in size since yesterday. I shall wait and see what it does next!  I'm hoping it will run out of food and start to shrink, so I know to half it and feed it. 

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