There are many and varied advantages to living in the country both here and there. On Saturday we went about half a mile up the lane and came back with a bucket full of beautiful damsons gathered from the hedgerow. They weighed in at 15 pounds and have now metamorphosed into Damson cheese (no cheese near it - just a term for jam made after creating a stone free pulp from the fruit) and a pan of almost finished Damson chutney. That will have to go in the fridge to wait until I've gathered the energy to remove the final 75 of 308 stones before adding sugar and dried fruit. Grandson 1, who has been with us since Sunday night, wants to go blackberrying but rain stopped play today and we're off to Twycross zoo tomorrow so the fruit fest will have to be put on hold till next week when he comes again.
Exciting news from across the Channel on Sunday - our builder rang us with an update. We apparently have new Velux windows in the roof and all is going well. Can't wait to see the photos he has promised to email to us this week.
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