A day as grey as granite today, but at least it stopped raining for a while.


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On Saturday, I chopped an unfeasible quantity of ginger, and made four large pots of ginger and crabapple jam ( Read more... )

I have picked a big bag of crab apples, and a smaller bag of rowan berries, and am making rowan jelly.  There are still a lot of crab apples left, so I think I may pick some blackberries (it's such a good blackberry year!) and make some blackberry jelly too.  I wonder if you can embalm whole figs in jelly?  I have got so many ripe figs, I am ( Read more... )

I took some elderberries, and in my usual half-arsed kind of way that I cook things, I wined them ( Read more... )

This weekend, I have made four jars of blackberry jelly, and am in the process of making rowan jelly too.   I have also made some blackberry whiskey ( Read more... )

I saw a random tweet from @NFUCountryside, asking about foraging, and which wild foods people collected.  I think this is worth more than a tweet, so here is a post.( Read more... )

( Look on my Strawberries, ye Mighty, and Despair! )

I picked some rowan berries last week, which are now in the freezer, becoming milder and more edible in flavour before undergoing transformation into rowan jelly.  There seems to be a bit of a shortage of crabapples this year - most of my favorite crab trees are completely fruitless.   I think this must be down to the dampness of the spring, though ( Read more... )

If you can't be bothered to read about my weekend, I have handily summarised it for you in the subject.  The rest is detail.  Oh, and a painting.  Well, two paintings, one by Bruegel, one by me.

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( In which I am Baffled by 4th Century Iron Things. )