The lads have returned from the allotment twice now with some apricots from Ken's trees...the first lot were a little ripe and needed sorting so I dealt with them right away by freezing a couple of bags of the best of the not too ripe and undamaged fruit in halves...these will be great for desserts if I can hide them from Chris and Sarah who both love nothing better than a few raw apricot halves straight from the freezer...
The rest I made into jam, one of our favourites, and a great standby to have in the pantry...
I tried a new recipe for lunch, from a Donna Hay book I picked up in the library yesterday. It using up some leftover steamed rice from the fridge, chili, sliced snow peas and runner beans, (my addition as we did not have many snow peas left), lots of chopped chives and eggs...it was quite delicious really, a sort of thick omelet, served with some dumpling sauce...far nicer than the sum of its parts...another synergistic dish! (I love those, especially when it means refrigerated leftovers get a new lease on life...).
I am busy working on the next couple of projects for the design teams...one is almost completed and is looking good I think...I am trying hard not to start the second one, which really appeals to me, before finishing off the first...must be disciplined about these things...one can have too much fun after all. The two completed memory albums are all packaged up but are not delivered yet...we were going to drive them up last evening but decided to wait until the weekend...
The garden is still looking nice, with plenty of colour, although it is hotter now and rain is not falling with the regularity of earlier in the season...I must rally the troops and get some weeding done and the lawn edges tidied, things can get away so quickly...the fuchsias and lemon verbena also need a prune and the lavender need collecting before it dries off much further and I lose it all to the wind.

Bye now,
Dixx