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.
DeleteAt the risk of having my Gay Card revoked, I must admit to not eating meat, nor mushrooms, never mind duckies...
DeleteAnd as for "lazy baggage". Well, yes.
And thank you, Very Mistress, for teaching me everything I needed to know!
The 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 do try to follow you Ms Scarlet but I am afraid I have given up on many occasion .
DeleteThis blog might as well serve some purpose amidst the few and far between posts, so carry on Jon!
DeleteJon, apologies for taking so long to get back to you but I haven't been blog-hopping for awhile so I hadn't seen your comment. Thank you for your sound advice but it turns out that wasn't the issue. The issue was that I needed to create a new WordPress login. Problem solved after much hand-wringing and trial and error.
DeleteAnd, conincidentally, Mago has just published a "how to" for Blogger blog users to comment on Wordpress blogs.
DeleteI 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...
I looked at recipes for redcurrant jelly, Dinah - and you, Ms Scarlet, as I neglected to respond to you earlier - but they were too involved and time consuming for me to attempt. Plus, we'd be eating it until 2050!
DeleteOh, and I've missed your moving day! I'm so sorry.
Getting to grips with my emails is next on my list of things to do (I know there are one or two from you which I will attend to shortly).
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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Ms Scarlet is a cruel and unusual captor, Very Mistress. I'm sorry to say that I could only give my accommodations three out of five stars in my Tripadvisor rating. (It would have been four if there were bathing provisions for my corporals and sergeant major as well as my privates.)
DeleteAh yeah, Dr Jek ...
ReplyDeleteAnyway - why dig the bush out ? Ribisl can be used for juice, as filling in cake (YES ! I said cake . CAKE CAKE CAKE ! ), it is considered healthy (GOd alone may know in what respect, but I am told so) - and shduff.
Is this a toadstool next to the yellow brick road ? Be careful with this weed, will ya ?
The bush has already outstayed its welcome, Mr Mago. I meant to dig it up last winter but never got around to it. It will be replaced with raspberry and/or tayberry canes which produce berries that don't draw your arse up to your elbow when eating them!
DeleteI imagine even Bitey didn't like your home cooked Dog Chew.
ReplyDeleteNice to have you back xxx
You imagine correctly, Madam A. Bitey rather sensibly turned his nose up.
DeleteAnd, thank you. I will endeavour to stay back for a little while, at least x