Apricot wine is safely in its demi john now and now I've started on a new wine. I call it the tree and bush wine because there's everything i picked over the summer/autumn in there but pretty much its a sloe wine recipe but with added goodies. Now to Add the sugar yeast nutrient, yeast and stirr. Its a strange recipe this, you add the sugar a day after you mash up the fruit and add the boiling water and all to the bucket. This will be gallon size and my sixth sort of wine. At the rate I'm going I'll have done every wine going... We all need goals :)
Yesterday i bottled up the raisin wine so that's another demi john free...Humm ginger and clove wine for that one i think. You know i just put the heating on in my house. Its not for me however, its for the wine. Got to keep that yeast warm.
I might tell you about the Christmas cake i made, but not today. I'll tell you tomorrow...if i get time. I'll be out the house from 6:30am till 6:30pm tomorrow. that's gonna be a killer.

why is knitting so difficult!!

my mum has been trying on and off over the years to teach me how to knit, but she is right handed and i am left. Dad tried to teach me being a fellow lefty but his knitting leaves much to be desired. I've borrowed three knitting books from the library and I've now learnt (thanks to the Internet) to cast on!! with a double cast on. Now all i need to do is figure out what to do with these strange loops of wools to make them into a scarf. Sigh. Twenty four and i can't knit, or sow well, or build a boat. All skills I'm looking into. I'd love to build for myself a little canoe like Titus had in ghormanghast.
Today is the end of the three weeks the apricot, yeast, sugar and wheat had to soak in the water filled bucket so today they will be moved into a demi john in which they must stay for two or three months as that is all the time it needs to make it drinkable. Perhaps it will be palatable in time for the new year...If not then i shall drink it on imbolc. Why not. Now i must go and buy some barbecue sauce for my tofu.

i'm still here!

i bought myself a second hand vegetarian cookery book a week or so back, it's the Sainsbury's vegetarian cookery book and its actually really good. I've made four recipes from it so far. Erm onion and avocado pear salad, bean sprout salad the later i had twice (I've never been a salad gal but these were nice) i made chunky pumpkin soup and cauliflower cheese. Now the cauliflower cheese was disgusting but i think that was my fault rather than the recipe.
Well for the last few weeks I've been looking for a new job, i still have my old job don't worry, but i would really like to try something new, something more helpful. I'm applying for veterinary nurse jobs, I'm also interested in learning to do raki. It sounds interesting. Perhaps I'll find a veterinary practise that believes in it. one can only live in hope, although i suppose i could do raki on humans too, although i prefer animals.
i get my first viewing in my rented house (no pets allowed) soon, must do some cleaning and erm other stuff. I've been putting off the gardening for a while now, I've got a lot of spring bulbs to plant and I'm running out of time, same with my over wintering onions, although to be honest they didn't work out too well for me last year so I'm not too worried about those. Did i tell you i've got a new cat? No! Well shes almost certainly temporary as my house mate found her on the door step, the house mate was eating a bagel and the cat actually jumped at her and stole the bagel out her hand! She was starving! and shes possibly pregnant. sign. I've put found notices up at the pet shops in town and i hope someone gets in touch. She eats and eats and eats and then farts. We open the door every morning to see if she goes home but she won't. Might have something to do with the tuna and stake my house mate feeds her. oh how little control we have in our lives. I really really didn't intend to get another cat for a good while yet. Oh well, i suppose its a good thing that the house mate has 'claimed' the cat as her own. i just hope i don't have to use a crowbar if the real owners show up for our little farting cat.
Well thats all for now, wish me luck.

At work until ten pm won't be home until 11:30. Sucks! my bedtime is 8pm for crying out loud.

four days of nastiness

but i think i see a grimmer of sunshine.

I think i have swine flu....

been staying at the parents house for two days I've been in bed since 6pm last night and i just woke up. i have work today and i don't know what to do!!! What if it's just a regular cold with a head ache, runny nose, cough that's worse than any cough I've ever had before. Terrible back and leg ache etc. oh what to do.

i smell of basil

might have something to do with the fact that I've been pinching out the little white flowers.
Anyway. As soon as the rose hips have finished their long soak (they come out on the 14Th) the 2lbs of apricots will be taking their place. Well next year (touch wood touch wood) should be a good one. one gallon of blackberry, one of raisin, banana, rose hip, apricot, carrot, parsnip and then I've got a mixture of sloes and plums in the freezer. Well I'll try most anything at least once.