The dear SO joins us and we all go into a little local cafe for the much favoured fried egg and bacon late breakfast. After walking about in the rain, it's so good and so are the Lattes.
Going back to the cars, we find some more freebie apples for collection and I help myself to a bagful, for the next kitchen make or bake!
The afternoon is spent snoozing or sofa-collapsing and even Alice is happy to snooze in front of the fire.
For supper tonight, I'm cooking pork chops and veggies and our guests are toasting veggie things over their huge bonfire, lighting up the night sky and keeping them warm.
I'm still jamming in the kitchen and its taking rather too long, for I've got 6lbs of fruit and sugar all together in the pan and, really, it's a bit too full, so it won't really get up a fast rolling boil; this is what you need for a good set, so mine probably won't set as firmly as it should do. And the slow boil encouraged the mixture to stick rather badly which made a very hard pan to clean up the following day; in fact it took all week for the dear SO to clean it up. Oh dear!!!
The kitchen became very messy with more cooks bustling about it and it took rather a long time to get things tidied up. When all was more-or-less restored, I joined the others outside, sitting around the bonfire, looking up at the shooting stars, whizzing across the night sky.
Then we ease ourselves upstairs to bed and leave our guests sitting outside, keeping warm and chatting away into the wee small hours.
Exhausted sleep descends almost immediately but then, in those same wee small hours, I awaken with my tossing and turnings to spend a few hours of total wakefulness but that, as they say, is for another diary update later on.
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| Happy walkabout...! |
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| Sunday lunch:):):) |
Daisy
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