For the Hampers

I added another thing to the hampers yesterday when I used a tin of this

which I bought from approved food for 99p earlier this year. It doesn't look much when you open the tin but tastes like a smooth strawberry jam when made. Ideal for filling a cake or jam sponge pudding.
I'd only ever seen  the tins for sale in Lakeland and had never tried it before, but they couldn't have been very popular as they no longer stock them.

I think that makes 7 items made for the hampers so far, plus a couple of bought things, so almost sorted.

Thank you for comments yesterday.

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Sue

Me and the Poppet

Forgive me but I couldn't resist sharing



Col took this the other day when we were in Leiston looking after Florence for a hour or so. She's a right little poser, loves having her photo taken but the lovely thing was when we arrived she pointed at me (she does a lot of pointing!) and said "Nanna".
Who knew having grandchildren would be so much fun!

 What is Not fun is that they've put Col's date to go in for the donor stem cell  transplant back by a week -  early December now rather than the end of this month - and we have to go to Addenbrookes to have Lung Function test which he's already had in Ipswich. Grrrrrr! He'll almost definitely be stuck in Addenbrookes for Christmas.

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I Saw The Flying Scotsman.................

......................................but only got photos of the carriages!

I popped down to Needham Market for the Saturday car boot sale and then planned to go into the little town to the big Hospice charity shop.
But when I got round the corner and under the railway bridge there seemed to be an awful lot of traffic and  people all stood looking at the railway line.
Then I remembered Col saw on Facebook that the Flying Scotsman was passing through, so I squeezed into a parking space and joined in with all the people with cameras.
It was gone in a flash and all I got was the carriages!

The engine is in there somewhere - you can see the smoke!

and then I went home! Without bothering to go to the charity shop as the roads were still jammed up.

It was a morning for trains because a  bit later we spent a while sorting out a smaller railway

I've collected a huge box of brio and brio type railway from car boot sales and the lot above is what will go down to Jacob (and his Daddy!) for his  Christmas present. It's just a  simple layout  with a tunnel, engine shed and hump-backed bridge as he's not yet 2 years old. We can send more complicated bits like viaducts down later. There is still plenty left here for when grandchildren visit and I'll keep an eye out for any more I see going cheap.

Our Son and DIL are visiting the Surrey family soon so will take everything down for us before Christmas.

I don't know what the weather was like where you were yesterday afternoon, but here by golly it was wet, cold and very, very windy! We hunkered down, read, watched some rugby, some tennis and watched some of one of our favourite DVDs. We rarely watch a DVD and only possess  a few, but haven't looked at this one for a couple of years. The weather was so dire  I even had an extra frothy coffee! Then Strictly Come Dancing  of course - are you enjoying it this year? can't say I'm that impressed with any of the celebs. The thing that cheers me is Elaine's weekly STRICTLY POST  and looking online on Sunday morning to see the strictly spoiler about who was knocked out, which saves the suspense of the Sunday night programme.






Thank you for the ideas for using the lovely cross stitch cards. I'll find somewhere to donate them where they will be used.

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Sue