Categories: food-and-drink, knitting
Tags: present, rural life, yarn
Date: 11 September 2009 19:44:40
I have in my kitchen 2 and a half pounds of sloes and a litre of very cheap gin. As soon as I can find a receptacle big enough to hold all that and some sugar, I will have the makings of a very 'merry' Christmas. My enquiries among the church choir this evening did not bring forth the loan of a 2 litre jar I was hoping for, but they did know where the local homebrew shop is so there is still hope.
Tomorrow I will post pictures of our sloe-gathering expedition. Next year I will take a ladder and a stick with a curved end. The best sloes were well out of reach.
In other news, the most original welcome gift to the parish so far... a ball of wool, a bag of plums and an invitation to knit jumpers to sell in a local shop.