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Next one of my collages of photos I took during my visit to the Cotswolds Wildlife Park last week - with more birds here.  🐦 My favourites here the laughing thrushes (that don't look very amused 😅 ), the black cheeked lovebird and the waldrapp ibis (which I always thought looked a bit vulture-ish.😍 ) Also, the pink pigeon at the bottom is the first of MANY that I saw at the park.

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Been compiling collages for my favourite photos that I took during my visit to a wildlife park earlier this week, and now that I have the first one I'd like to share compiled, here it is.  👍 The first photo collage is a collection of some of the birds I took photos of, and this time, to make sure that I knew which ones they actually were at a later date and with me trying to learn more about more obscure wildlife, I made sure to take photos of the boards describing them as well. 😉 My favourite birds in this collage are the blue throated piping guan, black curassow, scarlet ibis and red billed blue magpie. 🥰 (And I'm sure we came across that peacock multiple times, and there he's loitering in the homboldt penguin enclosure.😆  )

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Here's the last one of the bird photo collages from the Cotswolds Wildlife Park - so next time I'll be moving onto the other animals in the park, but I really loved all of the birds on this collage, so it was a great one to end the birds on. 😄 Fun fact, when I was showing some of my friends on their Discord, they made references to the Skekses from The Dark Crystal with the Ruppell's Griffon Vulture.😉  We also have the red crested turaco, which reminds me a little bit of those cute little porcelain birds I used to see at my grandmothers' houses ♥ , the most wholesome sleepy eagle owl 😍, a striated caracara showing a perfect mix between bird and cats with this one scratching on the edge of the enclosure 🐱🐦 , yellow billed storks, white faced tree ducks, a cassowary, another peacock scratching himself with his foot among ducks and a family of stanley cranes on the lookout.

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Next one of the collages of birds from Cotswolds Wildlife Park. 😀  I also wanted to upload a photo of the IUCN Red List for information's sake. The penguin breed is Humboldt Penguins - I couldn't get a good enough picture of the board as there were a lot of people in front of them.  My favourites ones here were the wrinkled hornbill and the tawny frogmouth (who I SWEAR is Grumpy Cat reincarnated as a bird. 🤣 ) When it comes to the Temminck's Tragopan, that was a bird we sadly couldn't see even though I was looking hard, but I wanted to take a picture of the board as I think they look very unique and I hadn’t heard of the bird before taking this photo. 😃

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More birds from the Cotswolds Wildlife Park. 😁 Favourites from this one are the bluefaced honeyeater, the madagascar partridge (even if the one wasn't giving me the most flattering view  😅 ), the bali starling (especially after hearing how endangered the poor things are 😟 ), and the green aracari.  (I also loved how smol the weavers are. 😊 )

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My next culinary creation that I made over the last three days - it took me quite a bit of time to make this, as I had to spend two evenings agocooking the meringues, and yesterday, after I got home from my hike, I made the raspberry cream.  :)

Photos in order: 1. Egg whites are seperated from the egg yolks 2. Egg whites and some caster sugar are mixed together and whisked together until they form soft peaks 3. Crushed pistachios are folded into the mix 4. Dollops of the mixture are placed on a baking tray 5. After being cooked in the oven for 2 hours and left to cool, the meringues are arranged 6. Double cream, caster sugar and raspberries aligned together 7. All these components are whisked together 8. The meringues and raspberry cream are served in serving dishes

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I decided to make a special Father's Day tea yesterday, and so here is a photo compilation of what I decided to cook - Cheese and Onion Pie.  (Or as a friend put it - Wallace and Shrek Pie XD ).

Photos in order: 1- Ingredients - Plain flour, onions, eggs (cheese not pictured) 2 - Flour and butter is mixed together in a food processor 3 - These are mixed until it forms breadcrumbs, then some water is put in to make it stick together 4 - The resulting dough ball, which is then chilled as everything else is prepared 5 - Chopped onions are cooked in water 6 - ALL of the cheese :o (One of my friends told me it looks like White Diamond's head here XD ) 7 - Two beaten eggs, cheese, onion and salt and pepper are mixed together 8 - Dough is rolled out 9 - Dough is used to line a dish, then the mixture is placed in the pie case 10 - Top of pie is brushed with another beaten egg 11 - Cooked pie after 40 minutes 12 - Completed pie with sweetcorn and peas

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Did some more cooking recently, so here's another food photo compilation for you all.  This time, it's fajitas. :) 

Photos in order1. Defrosted chicken weighed out2. Cooked in a frying pan3. Mixed together with tomato and herb sauce4. Cooked chicken put together with salad in a tortilla wrap (I'm surprised I managed to wrap them properly  )5. Two fajitas together

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Yet another culinary creation - I made meatloaf yesterday. :) Photos in order 1. Onion, cumin, bay leaves, himalayan salt (Pops from Regular Show: I CAN TASTE THE HIMALAYAS!), pepper and garlic mixed together in a frying pan with butter 2. Breadcrumbs mixed with pilsner (the recipe book I used was called ‘Cooking With Beer’) 3. The breadcrumbs and onions mix are mixed with minced beef 4. After being mixed with egg yolks, the loaf mix is spread into a dish 5. After being put in the oven for 20 minutes, the top is glazed with mustard 6. The completed meatloaf after another 25 minutes of cooking served with chips and ketchup