Thanks. We lost our dog at the end of October but it is only by now I could joke about the liver flavoured toothpaste. He loved the bloody stuff.

At a pet shop in Southwold when we were on holiday the other year, we bought him a tub of bacon flavoured ice cream. The only snag was, being dairy free it had aloe vera (Senna) as a smoothing agent (I read the ingredients after the poor dog had us run out of poop bags on his next walk. Not that you could scoop it up easily if you get my drift.)

As its Good Friday and Mrs Musket isn't at work, our breakfast shortly will be bacon butties. Bacon from the farm next door, bread is about to go in the oven. My neighbour gave us a slab of pork belly yesterday and I am marinating it in a spicy rub ready to flame away on the BBQ later. Too cold to sit outside to eat still but first fire up of the year later.