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Still here

by Bobshouse on 11 Aug 2013, 19:30

Finally some better news, my dad has been accepted for a care home, just have to wait for a vacancy which will hopefully be before year end. I feel rather bad as I know it means someone will have to die. It is a relief though as I have been battling for months to get this sorted. All the trips back to the UK for various meetings has really unsettled me. I am still not sleeping very well and am totally exhausted.
I have not fasted for some time again and cannot get back into it.
Our first Gite is almost finished at last. We passed the inspection for the electrics and are now waiting to hear when it will be switched on.
I have gained far too much weight during all my troubles but amazingly am not very bothered. I am so tired of worrying what the scales say. I have put a lot of effort into cleaning up my diet and am happy feeling most of what we eat I make. I will shortly start jam making for this year, replenishing my store to last until next year. I still have a few jars of jam and bottled fruit from last year.
Will try to call in again soon but really am useless with all this at the moment.

In for repair Monday, Wednesday and Friday
learning to love life as it is
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Re: Still here
12 Aug 2013, 00:18
So glad to hear that you have managed to sort things out with your dad. I have followed your blog from when I started 52 in April and feel that we are kindred spirits because I try to make food too, and I am a locovor. I was sad when you didn't appear for ages and worried about you. So thanks for getting back. It's wonderful that you have stopped worrying about the scales and that you are happy about food. When everything settles down you may find it easier to fast. In the meantime, enjoy jam making. What kinds are you making? We make many kinds of jam from fruit we grow on our block. We also bottle fruit and dry prunes and pears and this year we are having a go at drying persimmons.
Re: Still here
13 Aug 2013, 07:07
Hi Sally, thanks for your lovely comment. I have blackcurrants and blackberries building up in the freezer. Once I have enough I will do blackcurrant jam, my favourite. Once the apples are ready I will make apple and blackberry jam. Hopefully my autumn raspberries will be good and I will get a few jars of raspberry jam. I will bottle the pears and do many parfait jars of apple purée, with blackberries, on its own or with raisins. This gives me apple sauce to have with pork and plenty for puddings over the winter.
I make my own bread and cakes weekly and biscuits when I can. I have a good stock of elder flower cordial I made earlier in the year and plan to make rose hip syrup once the rose hips are ready.
My eggs all come from my chickens which is lovely.
I also knit and sew and am slowly getting my 1832 farmhouse the way I want it.
The first Gite is very close to being done and I will be pleased when it is. I still have loads of pointing to do though. It is hard work trying to be self sufficient but is worth the effort.
Re: Still here
13 Aug 2013, 07:26
That sounds like the kind of place I love. We have berries, many kinds, peaches, plums, quinces, pears, apples, lemons, persimmons, hazelnuts, walnuts and we keep ourselves in fruit pretty much all year by freezing and bottling as well as jams and jellies. And yes, elder flower cordial and also lemon cordial. We have our own eggs and now we are breeding squabs - pigeons. I also make bread - sourdough. It's a great way to live. Like you we are always renovating. Our house is not an 1832 farm house - more a 1932 workers cottage, but we have a sloped block so there has been a lot of terracing. The project next summer will be a berry cage. We have to net everything against the birds.

Take care of yourself. And enjoy the summer. It's pouring rain here.
Re: Still here
14 Aug 2013, 06:48
If you would like to keep in touch via email rather than the comment box my address is. Alysonsansbury@hotmail.com

Lots of possibility for meat here, which the French think is normal but I cannot do the deed. Friends have offered to help me process the chickens but I am not sure I could cope with it!
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