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So those @rectoryfarmpyo #strawberries???? I won the other day. Yeah, those. Jam! ???????????? #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam #strawberryjam???? #jam
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Went fruit picking at @rectoryfarmpyo this morning and to collect my prize of four beautiful punnets of the sweetest tasting strawberries that I won by suggesting on their Facebook page to serve them drizzled with elderflower cordial and a dash…
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Went fruit picking at @rectoryfarmpyo this morning and to collect my prize of four beautiful punnets of the sweetest tasting strawberries that I won by suggesting on their Facebook page to serve them drizzled with elderflower cordial and a dash…
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Raspberry picking with @vnemma… #raspberries #jam #pyo #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam
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Yummy plummy jam… #plums #jam
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“Keep smiling and making jam” Always loved that quote about me from about 19 years ago… #jam #strawberries???? ????
Continue readingIt’s a blustery afternoon, too wet for gardening, so instead I set about finishing up this year’s jam making: today, strawberry jam – my favourite. Further to my experiences with the raspberry jam the other day, I make it in…
Continue reading~ It was 11 years ago that those immortal words ‘Thomas, keep on smiling and making jam…’ in a leaving card of mine. This year it seems to be a statement that is more appropriate than ever. Yes, there is…
Continue readingAn infamous comment in a leaving card from the-best-temp-job-ever (sic.) in the summer of 1998 read, and I quote, keep smiling and making jam. I liked that comment, and I’ve tried to live by it ever since. There have been…
Continue readingit’s all about meme “I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions: no more, no fewer. Ask me anything you want (though I reserve the right not to answer, or to answer evasively). Then I want you…
Continue reading1. The progress forward of my writing is, this week, going to be largely dictated by a hot stove, and the 8 lbs of damsons and 9 lbs of greegages which I acquired from my parents’ neighbours gardens this weekend….
Continue readingBack in the summer of 1998, in a leaving card from my then job as Programme Administrator for one of Oxford University’s summer course’s, fellow temp, Emma Golley wrote: Keep smiling and making jam! Since then I have always vowed…
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