Wednesday, August 13, 2008

what have I been up too?

Im coming to the end of a couple of days off in some of the shittiest weather possible in august, I know most people complain about English weather but this just takes the biscuit. Last time I remember a summer this bad must have been 84 or 85, on the first day of the summer break I came down with chicken pox which meant I was house bound for three weeks and then it rained for the rest of the summer, complete with an outdoor swimming contest with the scouts which left most of us with hypothermia.
Most of my free time in daylight hours has been spent gathering fruit for wine and jam making, my wife is starting to get pissed off saying I am making her look inadequate in the kitchen.
So I now have a cupboard full of home made jams and jellies , four demijohns bubbling away and another due to be filled tomorrow, loads of blackberries set aside for later use its time to make labels.
I already have requests for my homemade jam (considering this is my first attempt and nobody has tried it yet) and several people are expecting wine for Christmas I need to think presentation.


This was last years wine label


so here are this years ideas







for the cider


and for the jam



I had to keep it fairly clean as I am going to be giving some to my mum, looking up the nun picture was interesting but she is very catholic and would not have approved.



Let me know what you think