Cooking With Richard

This is Sushi’s new house that I am building. The foundation is a wooden frame bolted into the concrete, with bricks mainly for decoration:

The back frame is built from wood and bolted to the rear wall of the house:

Believe it or not, just this took a whole day (about 8 full hours, if you include the trips to Screwfix, Wickes & Homebase).

Tomorrow:

1. Add a front frame
2. Add plywood sides and roof.
3. Probably I will make one side out of a sheet of perspex so there is a bit of light and she can see out.
4. The roof will be hinged so we can change the cat litter.
5. Add a cat flap in one side.

Future jobs:

1. Seal around the sides so air/water can’t get in.
2. Add some lead flashing maybe.
3. Paint it!

This was a video I took on the very first day that Sushi came to our house. You can see she was exploring the new smells in the house …

She went for a little walk around the garden earlier …

I like to think she’s dreaming about chasing blackbirds.

“Play with me!”

It’s bloody hard to take photos of her because she doesn’t stop moving …

“Now I want to go to sleep!”

Sleepy time for kittens …

It’s our white duck / mallard couple. I wonder if they will have spotted ducklings?

Edit: N-sama said the male duck was ugly .. mooo