This afternoon, after yesterday's failure on the common, we went up to our most reliable blackthorn spot ( Read more... )

This afternoon, we took Jo over to the common, planning on a couple of bags of blackberries, ditto of sloes and a couple of carrier bags of apples ( Read more... )

This year, I picked a whole lot more wild garlic than last year, because it seemed a shame to waste it. Some of it I blanched and froze (ok results. Nothing amazing, but that may be partly because the only thing you can then do with it is stick it in a stew-ish thing with lots of other stuff), most of it I made into wild garlic pesto, which was ( Read more... )

We had a weather-induced power cut last night, which kept me awake rather: I'm not sure if the battery is dead in my clock and I woke up when the power went out (which seems more likely) or if I just happened to wake and look at my clock the second the battery did die, but either way it was 2:30am and I spent the rest of the night being woken up by ( Read more... )

I've been a busy bee today (sorry, have apparently been infected by an edition of Poetry Please about bees that I had on in the background: anything's better than Football Sports HourThis morning, spurred on by there being a frost last night, (you may wish to look away now) I started on Christmas shopping. My, but it's amazing the stuff you can get ( Read more... )

I have to wonder how sophisticated Tesco's algorithm is: will it have decided we've suddenly become alcoholics, or will it put together 'house in the country', 'buy mostly Finest stuff' and 'suddenly buying lots of bottles of Tesco Value gin in the autumn' to conclude that we're making sloe gin ( Read more... )

The sloes have been en-ginned:


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Hops drying:

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Fizz and home made peach juice: yum!

(Yesterday, I made edlerberry and blackberry cordial, with cinnamon and cloves. Also tasty, but I think more of a drink to have with hot water than with fizz.)

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