Realfood......yes, pears seem to be lacking this year, we did get a load last year. Apples and plums have been wonderful this year, our yield has been huge from them. Plums all done and cleared now, half the apple trees we emptied today, the rest of the trees will be emptied from now till the end of the month. We give most of our fruit to the farmer next to us. She has a little cottage industry going. We do get some chutney`s and pies. The fruit would go to waste if they didn`t take it as there is so much.
Lynne.....yes, some trees are just starting to lose them, but won`t be long till they all start. Yep, chicken was lush........hope you had a good day.......
Elsa.....glad the cake turned out well!! Hope it`s a lovely day for her......and concentrate at work???? Day before a trip......nope....never going to happen.......lol......very excited for you........
Another beautiful day here.........my goodness it was hot!
Got two loads of washing out, dried, ironed and put away.....always makes me so happy to get that done in the one day. I think you may have heard me say that once or a hundred times......
Gardener helped us rake in a load of apples that are in complete abundance this year, did half the trees and he took them all over to the farm for us. And a couple of bottles of their home brew......they do enjoy a tipple.
Then we sat in the sun the rest of the day, well in the gazebo......it`s shady under that.
And the chicken was a big success.........not sure why he`s never done it before on the barbie......this is the before picture........it had been marinading all night and all day today.
Took about an hour, slow and low........didn`t get an after picture as it was on the table for the four of us to dig into before I remembered to take a picture.......but it was delicious.....very tender and moist! And spicy, but not too spicy......everyone loved it.
And the pavlovas were a huge hit too......I do make a good meringue, nice and chewy not just like dust the way some are.......again, even if I say so myself.......
Pot of tea has been enjoyed, now some tv time I think........
One of my birthday gifts was a box set of a Scottish TV detective show called Taggart.....it has every single episode from the beginning in 1983. Love it!!! Very Scottish and uses great Scottish words like Dunderheid.....which basically means stupid idiot......it has good humour in it too!
Yep, that`ll do tonight.......