Yes They Have Apricots!

You know how it is, one moment you're just going for a little drive out into the countryside, mostly because the car has aircon (and your flat does not and it's 30/86 degrees outside and you are on the third floor), and the next thing you know there are 10 kg/22 lbs of apricots in the boot/trunk!

It all started last year because I was looking for apricots, but a spring frost had damaged the crop so there were none to be found. Instead I got cherries, and then plums, and finally peaches; and a jamming career had begun! This time I went looking for peaches, and was handsomely rewarded with my dream fruit.

The first half is now jam, with thanks to the movie "Yesterday" and the documentary "My Octopus Teacher". Hopefully the second half will be completed late tonight. 

A Bit of Poetry

When I was at university, we had to study this poem:

This Is Just to Say
(by William Carlos Williams)

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

While I was convinced that this was not really a poem but rather a note he'd left on the kitchen table that had fallen out of his ephemera; others in the class got terribly serious about his literary style. Today I was delighted to find this blog. Enjoy.