Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

No rain here ☹️, passed us by on it's way Norf and never so much as a dribble. I did hear a few thunder rumbles and that was it. Just dull, dry & gloomy, with sun due back later, sigh….. Enjoy the rain 2P, out there dancing?

Lego, Beaky Nun ?

2P Farway wonderful looking grapes 😀 now I'm tempted again. When the school holidays are over I must take a trip to the big garden centres and see what's for sale I think they are in same league as figs, wonderful when they work, but some disappointments along the way.

I've had my grape since 2018 and it has only cropped twice, took a few years to settle in, then it went into a coma for a year. Big show last year but no fruit. Would have been two bunches this year except for a spot of over enthusiastic pruning where I lopped the wrong shoot off.

if you do decide I think it would do well once the roots are down, given your drought riddled garden. Have a Goggle on grape roots. Think of all those vines loving it on dusty hillsides, like figs & olives. One thing I would say, get named, maybe grafted one and try seedless, nothing worse than small grape with large pip. Ask Dusty, who seems to have got a mis labelled Lakemont, red & pippy. 😁

All is not well here, in fact it's a disaster. yesterday I went ahead with making the blackberry & apple jam, using the frozen blackberries & fresh apples. All in 3Kg of fruit, 1.5Kg of each. For some reason it just would not set, I have made jam for years and never had this problem, maybe it was the frozen fruit? Who knows?

Anyway, it never set & I have burnt both the jam & the pan, it is a right mess and stove top looks like a mad axe man has been in. Bank holiday job involves elbow grease & Brillo pads.

I'll not be around tomorrow, dog sitting. DD has to go out & the GC are in France & young Rodney needs a friendly face. Because I may have some blue pellets knocking about in garden it is safer for me to go to dog than him come here. Should be a nice photo opportunity, except young Rodney is getting frisky & attempts nawty things with any leg he spots. 🤭

Here's some of the fruit I picked, the large red pear is the only one this year, never ripens, just rots. The smaller green ones are French type, which need to be stored in chiller for months, as they turn yellow, juicy & superb. Apples, just some from my old, unknown, tree, mixed sizes.

Dustyevsky

Less got it right. 😇 Peregrine. 😀 The feet gave it away, but they're the last thing people usually look at. I don't think they can have another go 2p…..superglue!

Well, being on the priority register, or some such, we were contacted by text message by National Grid, apologising about loss of service. I'll forgive them, but BT had a better solution for the part-functional phone line. They took some money off our next bill.☺️ At last, we're full fibre, and on broadband, it does seem somewhat quicker. If only it could make calls from certain people quicker as well! 🤣

Very little rain fell, but at least we had some. I'm glad the parched east is getting plenty this morning, and I don't mind if the deluge promised for tomorrow looks like it may not happen now. Bank Hols means the roads will be packed again. 😏

Having put up the confusing Peregrine, I'd better add something that looked easily recognisable.

twopenny

Farway sounds like you over boiled it. If you still have it leave it in jars for a month or two. It could be rock hard (in which case boil it briefly again with a little water and more apple and juice of a lemon) or it will set with time.

That's why I have some unusual jam mixes 😀

We have no pectin available now, jam sugar is more expensive than the heating bill. Supermarkets don't want people making their own.

Waiting in for the apparatus from post op to be collected and trying to catch up on all the jobs that I've not been able to do. Then yes, going dancing 😀