A Mystery Parcel

 This mystery parcel of goodies arrived on Saturday.

 It came via an etsy site but who sent it?  someone in the family? a blogger?, a mystery friend? I haven't a clue except it must be someone who knows my address and I hope they read the blog as that's the only way I can say thank you.

It was much appreciated - and the Divine chocolate was consumed quite quickly! The hug card was lovely, I may well pass that on to someone who also needs a hug.

Thank you again to who ever organised this.

Could certainly do with some hugs, it's getting harder and harder to stay up beat, feels like after Colin died when other people got back to normal quickly but I couldn't. Now other people are out doing all sorts of things they like doing but all the things I enjoy are still on hold except for one tiny ray of hope - the mobile library is starting up again from the 6th July - it was due here on the 2nd so I'll still have to wait 4 weeks until the end of July for it's next visit but at least I know the heap of reservations that are waiting will be on their way to me next month.

Back Tomorrow
Sue

Strange Times, End of Week 13..................

............When will I stop writing Strange Times and counting the weeks? Soon I hope.

This weeks flowers on the table are the first of the Alstromeria and the rather small Sweet Williams all from the cutting garden.

First of all a Big Welcome to some more followers - hope you like reading about life in Suffolk.

There's been a lot more rain here this last week, I got woken in the early daylight hours of Thursday morning when it looked like a cloudburst outside. All the water butts are full again so it can stop raining now and it's been quite chilly too - and, with no one to moan at me, I even had the heating on a couple of mornings and evenings. 

Two weeks after it started I finally shook off the sore throat/earache/lethargy thank goodness. I was glad it went.......didn't fancy the hassles of trying to see a doctor.

The highlight of the week was the vets deciding to re-open for routine vaccinations, just in time for Polly to get her cat-flu booster without having to start again from the beginning of a long course. They did the usual health check and found she had a wobbly tooth which would need to come out in case it set off an infecton- so it's back in for her next week - that sounds expensive - Ho Hum.

And apart from making jam as mentioned yesterday it's been another week of reading, stitching, watching snooker on TV and the occasional burst of housework. It would be possible to do exciting things like going to a garden centre - but there's nothing I need so I've only been out to the vets and post office..........


Running total of food from the garden 2020

• 9 small lettuces (I now have a gap because the next sowing took ages to get going)
• 4 Cucumbers - and 4 more given away
• a few asparagus spears
• lots of rhubarb
• Few strawberries.
• 1lb of gooseberries

This week I'm grateful for

1. Strawberries from brother in law
2. Good rain for the fruit trees

 This weekend I'm just popping out to deliver a cucumber and a jar of jam to my sister-in-law which I'm swapping for lots of puzzle pages from the local paper and hopefully will be able to see the nearest bit of the family too.
Then next week most shops can open but they might be busy so it will just be a supermarket trip I think.

Hope you have a good weekend.

Back Monday
Sue

Strawberries From Another Garden

A week or so ago I asked Brother in Law if he would have any strawberries to spare and he said yes......probably. (He doesn't like to commit himself to anything too much!)
Then on Tuesday night he phoned to say he'd picked nearly 2lb  and would put them in his fridge and if I waited until Wednesday evening there would be a few more.
So Wednesday in the almost non stop drizzle I picked a pound of gooseberries and topped and tailed them, washed lots of jars and in the evening went over and collected just over 2lb pound of delicious plump strawberries.

And early Thursday morning  I cooked up the gooseberries in one pan until they were a mush, the hulled and halved strawberries in the jam pan, added the gooseberries to the strawberries then the sugar and  cooked until setting point and made 7 various sized jars of Strawberry and gooseberry jam. Doing the jam this way means it looks and tastes just like strawberry jam but without the problem of lack of pectin.

Scones with jam for another year is sorted.

Back Tomorrow

Sue