Month: January 2021

  • Turning berries into jam

    Turning berries into jam

    Last year I filled multiple delivery food containers with blackberries and strawberries from the garden, and blackberries from the massive plants that are along the road past the house. Some have been used for blackberry and apple (Bramley) crumble, and the rest got turned into jam today. Simple 1:1 ratio of jam sugar to fruit,…

  • Replacing the boiler

    Replacing the boiler

    At the end of December, the soil stack at the back of the house clogged again. It turns out whoever installed the guttering down pipe did a shit job (pardon the pun), because they never flush-trimmed the down pipe where it entered the soil stack. Instead, it stuck into the stack by several inches, resulting…