Monday, 13 January 2014

Honey spinning and the last present pictures

Hello Frugellers

Welcome Ken to my side bar and also to Jenny on Blog lovin.
As Christmas fades into memory I am posting my last Christmas pics. These are of EGD's offerings ... and very nice they were too.
The first picture is of some of the hampers, she made twelve in all! (boxes made by her boyfriend) she filled for the grown-up households. Each was filled for individual likes ( plenty of market research went into this to ensure nobody received anything they didn't like) In each box is a mixture of jams, curds and pickles, peppermint creams, shortbread and truffles made by EGD and then a little individual gift from GS, her brother, as well. These boxes were delightful and received well by everyone.

The next picture shows the presents she made for younger folk. Either a mug of mixed sweets or a "cookie mix in a jar". brilliant idea!
While that is definitely the last post (toot toot) about Christmas, I will undoubtedly be mentioning the super gifts I received as I use them (did I tell you I got a cutting wheel for my quilting?)
We have a had a productive weekend. The wine is now in demijohns and the honey is finally spun. We were going to do this last weekend, but life intervened. YGD enjoyed using our ancient spinner. If it had been electric it would have been no fun at all ! We are very pleased that we have any honey at all and if the swarms survive the winter and we can sell a couple of hives we will be over the moon.
Here is Little Miss Dynamite at her labours.
The sheep went today and with the state of the paddock and the rising river I can't say that I am sorry as it wasn't very comfy for them. We will fetch them on Wednesday or Thursday whole from the butchers and I will joint them to suit our lifestyle.
Need to get back to the housework now as the Civic Society Committee are meeting here tonight and I have to clear a space for them among the jars and bottles!
Did any of you follow "Hard up Hester" ? she stopped blogging suddenly some months ago. I noticed yesterday that she was back in my side bar so clicked straight on to her blog. What I read was quite bizarre. A tutorial on worm farming and some "comments" on the side in an unidentifiable language. What's occurring do you think? I'd never got HHH down as a worm farm sort of girl somehow!
Back soon
Gillx



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16 comments:

  1. buttercup13 January 2014 at 18:13

    now blogs as snitty kitty

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  2. Bridget13 January 2014 at 18:21

    Those hampers are brilliant and I bet they were very well received. I'm going to copy the idea of the sweets in a mug for some birthdays this year. Again a great idea!
    Looking forward to reading your blog this year, I think you are going to be an inspiration to me x

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    1. Frugal in Derbyshire 13 January 2014 at 21:29

      Thank you ! And I know I will have much to learn from you too. That's what this blogging fraternity is a all about.
      Gillx

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  3. Unknown13 January 2014 at 20:25

    I wondered about the HardupHerster thing ... so is snitty kitty Hard Up Hester?

    Nothing like your own lamb .. enjoy.
    x

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    1. Frugal in Derbyshire 13 January 2014 at 20:48

      The first comment here says Buttercup is snitty kitty !

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  4. dreamer13 January 2014 at 21:13

    Hester now blogs as Snitty Kitty, the old blog has been pirated by someone who is using it to get to the followers still subscribed to it. You might want to delete it from your list - sometimes the next step is being deluged by sales posts or even porn as happened to me with a deceased blog I was following last year.

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    1. dreamer13 January 2014 at 21:15

      http://snittykittysblog.blogspot.co.uk/

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    2. Frugal in Derbyshire 13 January 2014 at 21:32

      OOH I'm getting more confused (see the first comment above. I have snitty kitty as a follower. I shall delete the HH from my list immeadiately.
      Thanks for that
      So who is Buttercup then? Am I being thick?
      Gillx

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    3. Frugal in Derbyshire 13 January 2014 at 23:47

      Just realised that I don't know how to delete from my list! Help!!!
      Gillx

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    4. dreamer14 January 2014 at 19:44

      Buttercup is just a reader who was letting you know about HH, she doesn't have a blog but doesn't comment anonymously.

      Right to delete from your blog roll, open your dashboard, where th eblog updates appear to the right you will see a little cog icon, click on that. It will open a list of the blogs you follow. Find the HH blog and click on "settings", this will open up a box, in the box is an option for "stop following this blog", click on that and then click "done". It will disappear from your blog roll :)

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    5. dreamer15 January 2014 at 13:04

      Gill, to remove it from your side bar, go to your dashboard, find the page where it lists posts etc, and click on "Layout" down the right hand side, you can then see the widget for your blog list - click "edit" which will open the "configure your blog list " box, look for the site then click "remove" followed by "save".

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  5. Cro Magnon14 January 2014 at 05:22

    Another page I used to read suddenly turned-up written in some Indonesian language. It really makes you wonder what goes through these people's heads! Couldn't they simply start their own page?

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    1. dreamer14 January 2014 at 19:46

      They could but if they find a popular ex blog they can jump into hundreds of follower's blog feeds without having to do any leg work.

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  6. dreamer14 January 2014 at 19:48

    After all that I forgot to say what brilliant hampers your GD made for everyone, I would love to receive that sort of gift :)

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  7. Twiggy15 January 2014 at 16:23

    Brilliant hampers!! I went mad this Christmas and bought ahem 10m of cello wrap, so went wrapping with a vengeance, everyone was pleased with the contents!!
    A very Happy New Year to you and yours too
    Twiggy

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  8. Little Home In The Country21 January 2014 at 11:23

    Your spinner/extractor is gorgeous! LOVE it!

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