Daniel Etherington

Entries from August 18th, 2009

Free fruit, and class questions

August 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Main thread

It’s late summer already. Sheesh. Still, got to love this time of year for all the free fruit. Spent Sunday gathering elderberries, blackberries and wild plums and making stuff. Also loads of rowan berries around, but I’ve not experimented with them (you can make wine, and a jelly which is presumably like rosehip jelly).

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Sod's law strikes again

August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Main thread

Friday – hot, dry and even summery. Sunday – warm and dry. Monday – warm and, so far, dry.
Saturday:

(Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the photo – and for holding the brolly while I flipped burgers…)
Still, at least we had plenty of cake:

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