jam – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sun, 29 Jul 2018 20:29:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg jam – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 So those Rectory Farm PYO strawberries I won the other day. Yeah, those. Jam! https://shepline.com/2018/07/17/so-those-rectoryfarmpyo-strawberries%f0%9f%8d%93-i-won-the-other-day-yeah-those-jam-%f0%9f%98%8a%f0%9f%8d%93%f0%9f%98%8a-keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam-strawberryjam%f0%9f%8d%93-jam/ https://shepline.com/2018/07/17/so-those-rectoryfarmpyo-strawberries%f0%9f%8d%93-i-won-the-other-day-yeah-those-jam-%f0%9f%98%8a%f0%9f%8d%93%f0%9f%98%8a-keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam-strawberryjam%f0%9f%8d%93-jam/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:44:57 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/07/17/so-those-rectoryfarmpyo-strawberries%f0%9f%8d%93-i-won-the-other-day-yeah-those-jam-%f0%9f%98%8a%f0%9f%8d%93%f0%9f%98%8a-keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam-strawberryjam%f0%9f%8d%93-jam/ So those @rectoryfarmpyo #strawberries???? I won the other day. Yeah, those. Jam! ???????????? #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam #strawberryjam???? #jam

So those @rectoryfarmpyo #strawberries???? I won the other day. Yeah, those. Jam! ???????????? #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam #strawberryjam???? #jam

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/07/17/so-those-rectoryfarmpyo-strawberries%f0%9f%8d%93-i-won-the-other-day-yeah-those-jam-%f0%9f%98%8a%f0%9f%8d%93%f0%9f%98%8a-keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam-strawberryjam%f0%9f%8d%93-jam/feed/ 0 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 log fresh cream… https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/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-2/ https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/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-2/#respond Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:19:20 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/07/15/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-2/ 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 log fresh cream... #strawberries???? #pyo #jam #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam

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 log fresh cream… #strawberries???? #pyo #jam #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/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-2/feed/ 0 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 log fresh cream… https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/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/ https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/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/#respond Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:19:20 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/07/15/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/ 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 log fresh cream... #strawberries???? #pyo #jam #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam

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 log fresh cream… #strawberries???? #pyo #jam #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/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/feed/ 0 Raspberry picking with @vnemma… https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/raspberry-picking-with-vnemma-raspberries-jam-pyo-keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam/ https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/raspberry-picking-with-vnemma-raspberries-jam-pyo-keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam/#respond Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:53:54 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/07/15/raspberry-picking-with-vnemma-raspberries-jam-pyo-keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam/ Raspberry picking with @vnemma... #raspberries #jam #pyo #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam

Raspberry picking with @vnemma… #raspberries #jam #pyo #keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam

]]> https://shepline.com/2018/07/15/raspberry-picking-with-vnemma-raspberries-jam-pyo-keepsmilingkeeponmakingjam/feed/ 0 Yummy plummy jam… #plums #jam https://shepline.com/2017/09/01/yummy-plummy-jam-plums-jam/ https://shepline.com/2017/09/01/yummy-plummy-jam-plums-jam/#respond Fri, 01 Sep 2017 12:07:58 +0000 http://shepline.com/2017/09/01/yummy-plummy-jam-plums-jam/ Yummy plummy jam... #plums #jam

Yummy plummy jam… #plums #jam

]]> https://shepline.com/2017/09/01/yummy-plummy-jam-plums-jam/feed/ 0 “Keep smiling and making jam” https://shepline.com/2017/07/01/keep-smiling-and-making-jam-2/ https://shepline.com/2017/07/01/keep-smiling-and-making-jam-2/#respond Sat, 01 Jul 2017 17:37:27 +0000 http://shepline.com/2017/07/01/keep-smiling-and-making-jamalways-loved-that-quote-about-me-from-about-19-years-ago-jam-strawberries%f0%9f%8d%93-%f0%9f%98%8a/ "Keep smiling and making jam" Always loved that quote about me from about 19 years ago... #jam #strawberries???? ????

“Keep smiling and making jam”

Always loved that quote about me from about 19 years ago… #jam #strawberries???? ????

]]> https://shepline.com/2017/07/01/keep-smiling-and-making-jam-2/feed/ 0 Straw Lamb https://shepline.com/2009/07/19/straw-lamb/ https://shepline.com/2009/07/19/straw-lamb/#respond Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:46:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/straw-lamb/ It’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 two batches, back to back.

Mmnn, making jam as the rain falls… πŸ™‚

]]> https://shepline.com/2009/07/19/straw-lamb/feed/ 0 Making Jam (and smiling) https://shepline.com/2009/07/17/making-jam-and-smiling/ https://shepline.com/2009/07/17/making-jam-and-smiling/#respond Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:53:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/making-jam-and-smiling/ ~ 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 much good that is happening in my life, and some absolutely great and fantastic and wonderful things have happened recently. That said, my bi-weekly trip to the jobsworth centre does take its toll, and my seemingly impossible task of getting myself back into employment does weigh heavy. The last two years I haven’t made much jam, so making it now is nice; really nice. Something to smile about. πŸ™‚

~ Furthermore, it feels particularly cozy to be potting up jam whilst the rain rains, and the skies darken…

~ And at the end of it, look, 18lbs of raspberry jam! Okay, the fast-boiling was a close run thing and I should really have done it in two batches but still, its done. The fruit is cooked!

]]> https://shepline.com/2009/07/17/making-jam-and-smiling/feed/ 0 Harvesting Berries https://shepline.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-berries/ https://shepline.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-berries/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:01:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/harvesting-berries/ An 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 times when even I have found it hard to smile but I’ve always carried on making jam. That is, apart from the last couple of years. What with everything that was happening during the summer’s of 2007 and 2008 I failed to make any (save for some autumnal damson jam and crab apple jelly in 2007).

This year I was determined to get back on track and live by the mantra once again. So today, it being Emma’s day off we headed off to Rectory Farm, Oxfordshire and picked raspberries and stawberries for Britain. It seems like itҀ™s a good year for fruit. Let’s hope they make good jam!

]]> https://shepline.com/2009/07/16/harvesting-berries/feed/ 0 Still smiling, still making jam… https://shepline.com/2006/08/30/still-smiling-still-making-jam/ https://shepline.com/2006/08/30/still-smiling-still-making-jam/#comments Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:39:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1415 it’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 to go to your journal, copy and paste this, allowing your friends (including me) to ask you anything.”

]]> https://shepline.com/2006/08/30/still-smiling-still-making-jam/feed/ 2 Writing, smiling, and jam https://shepline.com/2006/08/29/writing-smiling-and-jam/ https://shepline.com/2006/08/29/writing-smiling-and-jam/#comments Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:58:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1414 1. 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. Already this evening I’ve potted up seven jars of damson jam, and another, similar quantity are fast boiling as I type. I like this time of year. Being out in the autumn hair foraging for free food in the trees and the hedgerows. It’s one of the things that makes Thomas happy.

2. That said, I am aching to get back to my novel. I am tantalisingly close to those two metaphorical three letter words, that I yearn finally to reach them. Not least, for I have a similar yearning for the torture of reading it all back through and revising out the dead wood from the story, and to resubmit to my writing circles at WriteWords, to YouWriteOn, and of course to Helen (that is, I am hoping that she will accept it again…??).

3. The rating for the first three chapters (c. 10,000 words) of Blood & Fire came through on Friday. You can see the review to date here. Together, they come together to award the story 2½ out of 5 – half marks – which I think is pretty good going for the first draft. Notably there are also a couple of 5 stars awarded to my use of language and settings. πŸ˜‰

4. Last week I effectively only worked three and a half days, for Thursday afternoon was taken up by an interview for a Web Producer job across the road in the ‘OBP Annex’. I think it went well – that is, I never know how well it has gone until I hear the result. It does sound like an interesting job; indeed it actually sounded better after having done the interview than from what I’d read in the job description and heard from talk to people. Hopefully I will hear by the end of the week, but until then…

5. That’s it. Jam making for tonight done and pan washed up. I have 14 lbs in 11 jars of damson jam. Yum!

]]> https://shepline.com/2006/08/29/writing-smiling-and-jam/feed/ 2 Keep smiling and making jam https://shepline.com/2005/07/04/keep-smiling-and-making-jam/ https://shepline.com/2005/07/04/keep-smiling-and-making-jam/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:11:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1084 Back 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 that amongst a plethora of other dedicatees my first novel will be inscribed thus, ‘and Emma, I kept smiling and making jam. It’s a motto that I think nicely sums up me, and my personality. Nothing can really get me down. No matter how much rejection I face, I keep going. It makes me happy.

It’s kind of ironic then, that, tonight, with the preserving pan is boiling away, and the sweet smell of strawberries envelope the air, someone whom I once considered a friend – a good friend – in these pages; someone who I have met in person on more than one occasion and who has been part of some of the most tightly locked filters here, has *defriended* me; has called me an *idiot* and a *twat* and that she *doesn’t want to be my friend anymore*. And all this (unless over a difference of oppinion (not even headedly-so) concerning the merits or not of the Live 8 and MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY campaigns.

This saddens me, as I thought we were good friends. It seems not. That said, if that’s the way that she feels; and that it has suddenly and without warning turned to petty name calling without so much as an explanation, then so be it. I’m not going to argue. If things work themselves again in the future, then yes, I am open to it, but until then… au revoir.

I shall continue to be the friend that I can to those that care and who understand me. I shall keep positive; keep writing; keep smiling and making jam.

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