Phew. What a week it's been already! How can it only be Tuesday? (but oh, thank goodness it is).
This week is the start of two weeks where I will be spending Thursdays at Covent Garden Real Food market! I will be there from 10am-6pm hoping it doesn't rain, that people want to buy my preserves, and maybe even squeezing in a bit of knitting and nattering with my Mum, who is amazingly dashing down from the North tomorrow night to help out. (Isn't she wonderful...slave labour at it's best!).
As a result I have spent the last two days not only processing huge bags of generously donated fruit and making the first of the autumn jam and chutney, but also desperately trying to get everything ready for Thursday. Today I have spent six hours standing over a stove, and at every moment that I haven't needed to be stirring, checking and stirring again I have been labelling and organising and making lists and wondering what I've forgotten.
Now I am going to stop. I'm not finished, I just can't stand up much more today. So I made cookies, and am about to pour a glass of cider. Not a traditional cookie accompaniment, but today it just feels right.
If you're in the Covent Garden area on Thursday, pop by and say hello. I'll be in the corner of the piazza nearest the London Transport Museum, being excited about jam!
Oooooh - how exciting. I work just down the road now so will definitely pop by.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck! I'll try and visit in a coming week!
ReplyDeleteWork means I won't really be able to pop down, but hope it all goes well! and that the weather holds out too! Why does it already feel like autumn?!
ReplyDeletei will be there in spirit, which, let's face it, is probably best given my current state of lurgy.
ReplyDeleteSadly, I'm too far away but hope you and your mum are kept busy.
ReplyDeleteI hope you and your Mum are kept really busy all day!
ReplyDeleteWould you send a jar of the Gooseberry and Elderflower back with her for me please, I'll pay her when I see her!
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Wow! You've been busy! Hope it all goes well. I'll try to pop in next Thurs to get my hands on some of your jam :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, I wish, I do; but you've just brought back lovely memories about Covent Garden and the London Transport Museum!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting...wish I could get over to your neck of the woods and try some of that jam. I enjoyed hearing about Covent Garden.
ReplyDeleteHello, lost blog friend! I used to be Sarah at Class and Coffee, now I'm Sarah at DaisyGirl... and I see you've changed, too! Official labels, beautiful cards, six hours at the stove with an impending market date... sounds like you have taken your wonderful talents to a more professional level! It's all beautiful--the jam, the labels, your pictures... hope your market day went well!
ReplyDelete(and, by the way, I think cider and cookies sounds wonderful!)