Redcurrants, raspberries and rhubarb

I have been missing again I know!! Tis due to far too much hoe hoe hoeing! And potato picking of course :) And OH hogging the PC in the evening when I have some time left. So I'll show you some of the things I've been up to shall I?

Chocolate crumb bars were yummy!

 The new potatoes are getting quite large!! I thought I'd try new potato chips and even though I soaked them for quite a while they were still, as always dissapointingly soggy! I don't like new potato chips!

Lemon bars , these are amazing and zingy! (I had a couple of sorry looking lemons left!) and OH won't stop eating them, good job I cut them into little pieces!

The old greengage tree had a bit of a moment...because...

I hadn't noticed just how laden with fruit it was!! All the branches are like this...for the last few years we've been lucky to see a couple of handfuls! Yum...I will be eating far too many and regretting it!

I spy itty bitty courgettes!! Itty bitty green ones and....

Teensy weensy yellow ones :D I love courgettes and get overexcited when they are nearly ready! Ask me how much I like them at the end of august though!

 Gah weeds...to be honest the land was pretty weedy when I planted the brassicas...so hoe hoe...

And I do believe I can now see rows! Ok, just about! But its better:)
The raspberries keep on giving, picked 2 litres today!

All safely in the freezer where the snails can't get them! Still not sure what to do with them, I think I might can some as pie filling, possibly can a 'fruit salad' mix later in the year, depending on what fruit we end up with. 
And then theres the redcurrants...

Seriously, if anyone wants redcurrants and isn't too far away let me know and you can come pick them for free. Its only one big bush, it cost 99p a few years ago, but I'm not keen on them, no one likes redcurrant jelly, no one wants them in the little stall and I hate to see them wasted. :)
BBS x

Weekend!! I must be good fairy

As hard as I try the weekends are always spendy if we go anywhere! And normally we have to go get top ups of milk and bread. Today was no different.
I neede 2 milk @£1 each, 3 rolls @ 52p eack. bread @ 55p. £4.01 :) Which actually cost me...£1 as OH wanted something too! So he paid for most of it! Then DS bought everyone chips for tea! To say thankyou for running him about!
Out of my pennies I still had to buy DS a birthday card :) And I bought the dog a frisbee for £1! Not as bad as it could have been if my favourite charity shop had been open!
So today..

cheap dark choccy, cheap milk choccy, condensed milk....must be..

Chocolate fudge brownies!!!! MMM sticky! No wonder I have indigestion!!

Checked the seals on the blackberry cordial, all had sealed well. Took off the screwbands and they are now on the shelves!
Took up the last of the parsnips before they get chopped up and ploughed in.

And remember the paper and shaving logs? Well they have started to dry out well..

Still not dry enough to light one yet and see if they would work as firelighters! But todays experiment was the addition of coal dust!

Another 12 little briquettes that have a definite blackness to them! Waste not want not!!
Well zero earnt and £1 spent :) still not had to go into emergency money :)
If i'm MIA tomorrow its cos I'm lazy!! And its sunday!
BBS x