So somehow since my last post September suddenly turned into mid December. How did that happen? Is this what happens as you get older? Is there a cruel devil mistress out there that speeds time up as some sort of sick and twisted joke? I feel like childhood advent calendars have a lot to do with drawing out the latter months of the year - you are aware of each passing day rather than witness to a full on time blur.
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Summer Lemonade
I love how the word glut is used to describe the crop from an overladen fruit tree. We raided Auntie Rachel's lemon tree and so once again we have a similar scenario one to one of my favourite books as a kid, Jam by Margaret Mahy. Mr Castle's plum tree is so full of plums that he fills every vessel in the house (from vases to tea cups) with plum jam. This is what is is like when we get an influx of lemons. Lemon curd on toast, lemon cake and now that summer is here we lemonade syrup has been added to the mix
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