Oranges and Lemons...

 I have been having a lovely time with Dreamer for the past few days.  On Thursday we went to a Coffee Morning at Linda Woodfield's shop and on Friday we attended a workshop there.  Dreamer learned to knit, doing amazing dishcloths, while I started my grand daughters quilt.  Pictures to follow.  She wants blues which is her favourite colour.

Today we mooched around the charity shops, where we managed to buy some lovely bargains, including 2 pairs of knitting needles for Dreamer.  I think she has the bug.

We nipped into the supermarket for a few items before heading home to start making marmalade.

This is lemon marmalade, made from ready prepared lemon pulp from Hartley's.  We added water and sugar and brought it to a rolling boil, turning down the heat and letting it gently simmer for 20 minutes.  The jars were steralised in the dishwasher (lucky Dreamer) and when the marmalade "set", we loaded the jars and left them to go pop.  I can't wait to taste them.

We also decided to do orange marmalade and added grapefruit segments to bulk it out.  Here is the mixture sat in the pan waiting for it to boil.  Again it consists of Hartley's saville orange pulp, water and sugar.  The smells are heavenly

Here are the finished articles, the lemon marmalade in red check covers and the orange and grapefruit in the white spotty covers.  I am so looking forward to sampling them and I may just give one away as a present......but then again..............