Good morning everyone, still a nice morning, very high cloud though.

 

Yogi a lot of rooms in my house just need refreshing with a new coat of paint.  I am keeping the cream paint in the lounge, I have pink curtains and green chairs and a cream sofa, so I think it goes well.  At the moment the hall is also painted cream but I plan to change that to a very pale turquoise.  The downstairs bedroom is being painted palest blue, one wall is papered with a pale blue pattern so that will match well.

 

When the house is painted my grandson will paint the utility room which has a glass roof which is being replaced with a new one.  We are going for a warm pink there to make a nice bright entrance to the house. As well as being painted I am having plastic fascias and new gutters and the old cedar cladding on the back where the dormer windows are will be clad in one of these new cement fibre boards which are extremely durable and come in loads of colours.

 

EL you might be interested in how we do things in a Baptist Church. 'Drink the bread and share the wine'. We have a real loaf of bread which the minister breaks.  This is shared out onto platters and brought round by whoever is serving, usually deacons, to everyone in church.  The minister tells us it may be taken by anyone who has given their heart to the Lord.  The minister always repeats the quote "On the night that Jesus was betrayed......"  Similarly wine (in reality blackcurrant juice ) is brought round in little cups.  We eat the bread when served but drink the wine all together 'do this in remembrance of Me'.

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Squiggle, that is interesting. I think there are C of E churches who also use bread rather than wafers. The wafers and wine we use come from specialist church suppliers. I know at one time the wafers were made by a convent. We use wafers rather than bread as numbers can be quite variable so we can choose how many to consecrate. Those who can come to the altar to receive a wafer and wine, the priest and one of the people helping to administer then go to those in the congragation who have difficulty walking.

The words used in C of E communions for the consecration are similar to those used in Roman Catholic masses and we do use "on the night.." and "do this in remembrance of us"

Afternoon all sunny and warm here

Squiggle your plans sound lovely, I especially like your living room colours. My bedroom is a very pale green with pink/white furnishings, I love it so much I'm going to paint it the exact same colour next time it needs doing

Yogi I hope you're having fun making your jelly

El that's very kind to go out to homes for holy communion

Summer, I think that all churches have people who visit those at home who are not able to come to church provided that the churches are made aware of them. It would be very unchristian of churches not to.

Squiggle, your colour schemes sound lovely. I'm sure the rooms will look beautiful when you have finished.

 

Interesting to learn of the differences and similarities re communion.

 

I'm about to start the jelly making! Although I've previously made strawberry jam and gooseberry jam, this is my first attempt at bramble jelly. Wish me luck!

Good luck yogi! I'm sure you'll do a grand job

I think it's interesting too, I like to know the differences between churches

Yogi, I hope the bramble jelly goes well.  If you are making it without apples you will need to add pectin to make it set though you are probably already aware of that as you've made strawberry jam.

 

 

 Does Sweet know you're going to make Bramble into jelly Yogi? 

She will not be pleased 

Neither will Bramble ������

It's a bit of a faff compared to making strawberry jam, so I hope it's worth the effort.

 It's okay, I knew about the pectin situation and have added apples.

 I wouldn't dream of turning Summer's Bramble into jelly!

i hope you are feeling a bit better, Moonie.

 

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Hi Velvet.

I'm hunky dory, thanks, and hope you are too.

Jelly making seems to have been a success - tastes lovely and fruity.

To the bishop?  

I should think not either  

Marginslly better fankoo Yogi 

Any improvement, however small, is good news.

*pops in to say hello to my lovely Buddies*
Fankoo Yogi
*heads off to Darnies*

 

I'm about to toddle off to bed, Moonie. Goodnight and sweet dreams to you.

Night owl hugs for Velvet, Summer and Ros.

Ros, I'm really looking forward to Strictly and IAC.

*night owls*

Aaaaw moonie glad to hear you've improved, even if only slightly

Pleased to see the bramble jelly went well yogi, was it fun and will you be doing it again?

Leaving goodnight hugs for all I hope you each had a good day. Night night

Good morning everyone.

Weather is dry and bright atm.

Summer, making the bramble jelly was more work than making strawberry jam or marmalade but it tastes lovely, so it was worth it.

Housework to catch up with today, see you later.

Good morning everyone

 

Foggy start here but expected to lift over the next hour or so.

 

A continue to get better for Moonie.

 

Yogi, well done on your successful bramble jelly

 

Good morning everyone, another nice bright morning but certainly a very heavy dew which is a sign of Autumn well on the way.

 

Sounds like the bramble jelly is a huge success Yogi, I bet everyone will be clamouring for some.  I remember tasting my best friend's mum's bramble jelly when I was a teenager, it was divine.

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Off to a client, back later.

 

Thanks Squiggle and El. 

I think homemade jam and jelly has a more concentrated fruit flavour and less sugary sweet, if you know what I mean?

My eldest son and DiL will have a couple of jars - which is only fair as they helped to pick the brambles/blackberries, and youngest son and his GF like bramble jelly so they will definitely want a jar too. Middle son only likes strawberry jam and DiL only likes apricot jam, so they have missed out this time. They can have an extra jar of strawberry jam next time I make it.

 

Hope all goes well at the client's, El.

I'm back from that client. I'll be at that client on and off for the next few days.

 

Yogi, your post about who like what jam could almost me made into one of those logic puzzles

Velvet, I hope my car MOT tomorrow is that sort of price.

 

I've been sending emails to all my clients about the latest phishing email supposedly from HMRC. I was sending each one as a separate email rather than as a group of emails so not to give clients email addresses of other clients. Eventually, my email server for sending emails was frozen and not sending them. (possibly as a safeguard against what the server might have thought was my computer churning out spam). It was only temporary and is back to normal

Thanks Velvet. I hope the cost for my car is closer to £240 rather than £700.

Hi Velvet.

By today's standards, £240 isn't too bad for a MOT. At least that's you sorted for another year.

The thought of you as a spammer made me smile.

I've been catching up on ironing and general housework, so I can say it's been productive.

Hubby tested the jelly - he had a jeely piece - and gave it the 

 

*leaves night owl hugs and kisses for my Buddies*

My mum has been on the phone for ages, sorry I missed you.

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie.

Off to bed! Goodnight and sweet dreams to Velvet, Summer and Ros.

Good morning
Raining but mild here this morning, I've opened the window and climbed back into bed

El, good luck with your mot, I hope the car passes

Yogi, I've never tried bramble jam, but i would because I like blackberries. Bramble-Jam is one of my many nicknames for the dog lol she will response to "miss jam" if I call her like that

 Jammy Bramble!

Isn't it funn how they recognise nicknames as well as their real names? When we got Keira, my sons often called her Keira Knightley - my eldest still calls her Knightley, and she answers to it.

 

Good morning everyone.

It has rained overnight but is now dry and bright.

Might be a bit early, but I am seriously considering a visit to the garden centre to check out their Christmas decorations.

El, good luck with the MOT today, I hope it sails through without any problems.

Have a good day, everyone.

 

Good morning everyone

 

A wet night here and it's only stopped raining a few minutes ago. There may be more over the next couple of hours.

 

I'm off to take my car in.

 

I arrived here by accident this morning! Moin! xx
Can I just say that last year after much experimentation I discovered a new recipe.
I boiled some of our apples to mush, added the brambles, and then a punnet of blueberries. People couldn't get enough of the resultant jam. The blueberries gave it a lovely fluorescent red colour.
I love to forage and use anything going, rosehips, sloes, hybrid plums, and damsons. I tend to put a bag of jam sugar in too.

Morning Joe.

I love blueberries so I'll keep that in mind next time I'm making bramble jelly.

What do you make with the rosehips? I remember picking them when I was in primary school but not since. I love rose hip syrup, so perhaps that should be next on my list to try?

Morning El. Good luck with the MOT.

Ooooooh christmas decorations!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope we get a full report when you return yogi

Hi joe I like foraging too, isn't it fun!