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The (next) best things in life are free!
Today was quite a departure for everyone at Nerd Towers as we all took a trip out into the countryside. It was a grey, damp day, to match our complexions, so there's no chance of any of us being mistaken for cool-surfer-dude-types.
One of the great things about being out in the countryside is nabbing all the freebies from the hedgerows: namely sloes and damsons. They make for lovely sloe gin (the sloes do anyway) and jam (the damsons). We found a quite a few heavily-laden trees and in a few hours stripped all the ripe berries from them (leaving, of course, the unripe ones for future passers-by).
With over 15lb of sloeberries and 10lb of damsons, we're in for a bumper jam-making session these next few days, and need to get hold of about 4 litres of cheap gin! Already there are plans being drawn up for a motorised jam-pan mixer, using three heavy-duty servos and a windscreen-wiper motor from a Ford Mondeo.....
One of the great things about being out in the countryside is nabbing all the freebies from the hedgerows: namely sloes and damsons. They make for lovely sloe gin (the sloes do anyway) and jam (the damsons). We found a quite a few heavily-laden trees and in a few hours stripped all the ripe berries from them (leaving, of course, the unripe ones for future passers-by).
With over 15lb of sloeberries and 10lb of damsons, we're in for a bumper jam-making session these next few days, and need to get hold of about 4 litres of cheap gin! Already there are plans being drawn up for a motorised jam-pan mixer, using three heavy-duty servos and a windscreen-wiper motor from a Ford Mondeo.....
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