This year I actually made something out of the sour, pointless red currants from the allotment: fruit leather.
It's horrible. It gets stuck to ones teeth and no one likes it. I only made it because Vom Smallhausen and Count Podgkinson foolishly picked some currants after I'd taken them up the allotment (fruit leather was the least complicated recipe I could find that used the most red currants). The red currant bush is getting dug up this winter!
View up Northrepps Road
Parasol mushroom
Escaping the heat - and Bitey - was this toad.
P. S. Apologies for my absence, I have been busy with summer and taking photos for the Grand Gardening Competition in October, or sooner??
Oh, no, wait. That wasn't me. That was Ms Scarlet.
While I have been busy with summer and taking photos for the Grand Gardening Competi- I mean, Garden Photos Event, I have also been sorting out the garden & allotment, engaged in a few social activities (pah!), exhausted myselves trying to eke out some sort of service from a couple of companies so-called "customer service" departments/teams, and have been lumbered with nieces and nephew far more often that I would have liked!
(Except for the toad, these photos are from 2nd August and I started this post on the 8th!)
Also, Ms Scarlet had locked me in her attic without food nor a bath mat - but that's a story for another time...
What was it you used to call Mistress MJ when she went awol? "Lazy baggage", or something similar? 😜
ReplyDeleteRedcurrant jelly is a lovely accompaniment to duck and other strong meat dishes - but fruit leather? Yuk! Jx
PS Lovely mushroom. Fnaar, fnaar.
I CAN hear you, you know. But yeah, lazy baggage.
DeleteThe fruit leather does look pretty on that plate - without the plate it might look like a dog chew. Even I eat Redcurrant jelly!
ReplyDeleteOh crikey, those customer service departments are a killer - I have lost weeks due to phone calls - I need about a week to recover from contact. This month it was South West Water - appalling. I feel your pain.
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Miss Scarlet, just a note to let you know that I embrace your latest collage but as usual, can't figure out how to leave a comment. Sigh. Just want you to know that I see you.
DeleteMistress - Wordpress is a bitch, but if you make sure you haven't got enhanced tracking on (the control to switch it on and off is usually an icon to the left of the "https" in the address bar) you should get a pop-up box with options - "normal" log-in is top right in that box. Jx
DeletePS Sorry, Mr DeVice, for hogging your blog to give tech advice to the uninitiated...
I really need to move to Blogger, but I find it so clunky to use in comparison to WordPress. I will figure something out!
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I love the picture of the fruit leather. Pity it's not so tasty. But perhaps consider some jelly next year, instead of digging it out?
ReplyDeleteI have been kicked off Facebook, which doesn't upset me, but I don't know why. Don't care! I tried to blog again at Wordpress and that's not worth it so I'm back at Blogger ONLY DAYS FROM MOVING IN! if you want me. https://bearsinshorts.blogspot.com/2025/08/only-days-from-moving-in.html
The real news is the title! I haven't told Sporran that the move will involve a small resident yapster...
Did Miss Scarlet allow you access to your “pink loofah/body mop/nylon netting shower pom pom on a string thingamy?”
ReplyDeleteGood god, no!! He had access to the outside trough once a week and was given one luxury for the purpose of bathing - Grannies old grey flannel to wipe down his privates.
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