Moving on

Cherryfudge

The washing is all dry and indoors again and will need to be sorted, ironed where applicable and put away, but not tonight.

I finished mowing the lawn and am grateful to my past self for getting a Sharpie and writing on the mower which way to turn the adjusters to raise the blades. That was kind of me, and necessary today, though it took a few goes to get it cutting acceptably.

The trip to the shops for potatoes netted a few other things as well, including a large chicken reduced to £2.40 (half price) which I'll put in the slow cooker tomorrow. L1dl also had some LED fairy lights so I snapped some up as stocking fillers for certain people and one for me. Those were buy one get one free, effectively £1.50 each.

I had a text from DH as he got home before me, so he had the onions and carrot chopped by the time I got back. I proudly cut two leeks from the ones I planted last year. They are, er… rather slim. Less than 50g for the two of them! However, I've never grown a leek and eaten it before, so I'm happy to have accomplished that.

The Shepherd's pie was okay but not brilliant and there was a lot of filling left over, so I had an inspiration and wrapped the leftovers up as a sort of sausage roll, then turned the trimmings into jam tarts, thus making a start on another jar of greengage jam. It may have been cluttering up the fridge for months but oh! those greengages taste so fresh! The 'sausage roll' is now portioned out and frozen for lunches.

In the evening a friend gave me a lift to the church group, some of which was spent sorting out our summer schedule. It's wonderful coming home mid evening and it's still light.