Rhubarb to Jam

With fresh rhubarb growing in the garden - and only one jar of rhubarb and ginger jam in store - time to use up last year's rhubarb from the freezer.








Cue jam making . . .

. . . and jam!

Not the Full Wheel

Another trip across country to visit family, stopping off in Stratford along the way to break the journey.


Walked round by the river, where they were busily putting together the ferris wheel (presumably for the summer season) . . .





. . . had a few pints, and polished off a curry!

Moved on the next morning for a couple of days with the folks - more sorting through cupboards, clearing out things from the garage, enjoying time with family - before heading back to Wales again.

Power-less

Our electricity supply has been interrupted a few times recently - after an actual power cut back in January, we were officially switched off for a day in February while the electricity people did some major replacement of the local infrastructure.

Now today we're off again as they rewire us to the pole . . .

We're reliably informed (by an electricity man) that they aren't actually allowed to switch us off again now for another 12 months - although hopefully they've done all they need to do now.

For today's 'outage' we had also invested in a small leisure battery and inverter - which kept the freezers running, and will in due course be used to power things in the garage using the solar.

One Tree Up

The solar has been in almost six months now, and I'm pleased to report that we've made our first tree . . .