Plum job

Still trying to get to grips and pick up the pieces of daily life. Chats with Keith about business stuff this morning. Lorraine and I doing property things together and signing documents and so on. Our souls, however, still looking at the Ionian sea and mountain and islands.

Epic plum jam making. Picked 3kgs of plums from our back garden. Today time to turn them into jam for the year. Cue a massive jam making session. Boiling away in two pots, at the same time as Lorraine was cooking a plum pie, and a gorgeous lasagne. However much I swore and worried at it, the bloody stuff wouldn't seem to set. We gave it a go, eventually, pouring it into the jars but it was far too loose once it had cooled down. Bitterly disappointing, and although said we could dribble in into yoghurt and porridge and so on I felt gloomy about it. Late that night however I googled what to do, and you can reboil it and add extra pectin. This is tomorrow's project.

Below the over-loose jam before it had cooled.