Oh the cold is here

Winter is here. Last week first the temperature went down to -5 °C and when it rose back near zero it started to snow. And then some more snow. During one day we got 15cm of snow - kids made snowmen and snowlanterns.
This week there has been rain and freeze (-8°C previous night).
And of course clocks had to be adjusted again.

Anyone can tell me this is not winter yet, but to me it is.

And we apparently have gained an another cat. This beautiful black and white (ex-)tomcat appeared on our yard almoust three weeks ago. At first we thought he was somewhere from our village - there are mind-boggling numbers of black-and-white cats in a little village! Nope, none of those cats were missing.
So we gave him food and when the freeze came, we let him in to our warm porch. I have made posters, called all animal shelters around in 50km radius and searched the net to no avail.
He has decided that he lives with us now and nobody seems to miss him.

Yesterday I gave up and started deworming, I have pills which need to be given three times. For our cats I just crush the pills between tvo large spoons and dilute it to water and give i to them with syringe. But I don't know how this fellow will react to such careless act, so I have to mix the crushed mess to his food. Well... He is very suspicious to his food now...
He is very nice cat, a bit vocal compaired to our kittens (which are over a year old now, so no longer kittens but my little babies always...)

Isn't he a pretty boy?

 The most suprising thing is that all three cats seem to get along. I'll try to get him to vet to find out if he has a microchip, but I doubt that - if someone chipped their cat, they probably would try to find it if it gets lost...?


Sudden winter of course meant I didn't get all things done in the veggie plot or in the polytunnel. I managed to plant strawberries and harvest all pumpkins and squashes, but I just remembered my pitiful carrots are still on the ground - there match sized so loss is hardly worth mentoning. Kales and broccolies are also buried under the frost and snow. Kale can manage little frost, but this cold temperatures this long might be a bit too much... Well, my freezer is full so I think I can handle this loss, too.

Not quite Approved Food - but close

I have made two orders from a company that sells expired/discontinued/slightly damaged food cheaply - packets are damaged, not the product itself. Just like Approved Food .

I wanted to shop on AF, but because delivery costs would be at least £30, it wasn't cheap shopping after all. But I found similar sites around here, like Matsmart (sorry, only in Swedish och Norwegian) -  I didn't order from there, but the site I used had one big advantage: they have listed ingredients of almost all of products. And that's very important, because I don't want to order 15 jars of chili sauce and find out in the hard way that it contains onions...

This time my order included a lot of cat food, some chocolate, stock cubes and other miscellaneous items - like five kg of rice... I paid a little under of 60€ of what I would have paid nealry 110€ at supermarket! I checked the prices, like I know that this specific cat food costs 3,89€ per box, and I paid 1,99€. I also bought a jar of chili sauce.

None of items I bought were past their "Best Before" date, and all of them were things I usually buy for us (even the chili sauce) and all of thme were on my shopping list. Ok, maybe not the 5kg bag of rice, but I would have bought 1kg bag and another in a few weeks again.

Althought there was one bargain I might have bought from Approvef Foods even with
£30 delivery...

But sadly it was out of stock.