We went to Gloucestershire again on Thursday, intending to go to the Cathedral and see the Moon display there as an early birthday day out for Keith, but it soon became obvious that my breathing was getting worse and worse and once we had picked up something from the auction, we started to head back. Some fresh air in Wotton helped, and staying off the motorway made a big difference - must have been particulates in the diesel fuel from the many heavies about then which made me worse.
I went straight on the steroids when we got back, and I saw the GP yesterday, but today I am worse again - which I put down to deciding to light the woodburner. Wrong move. Ah well, another lesson learned. No lighting it again until I'm back to "normal".
I have been resting, but yesterday made up my Apple, Pear, & Ginger Mincemeat - easily done as you just stick it in the oven for 2 1/2 hours to slowly cook. I had sat on the sofa a couple of days before, "resting" but cutting up fruit for the Mincemeat. Here are some photos - it made 6 1/2 jars.
And below, here it is about to go into the oven:
Recipe:
Let me know if you can't read it and I will type it out for you. That's the main recipe, and here is the variation I made as I have loads of windfall apples and pears.
Finally, as I'd heard good reviews of this book, when I saw it on offer in paperback in Tescopolis, I treated myself yesterday and am finding it hard to put down.
It had me in tears though . . .
Right, off for a bath now and an early night as I was awake until 4 a.m. this morning - the steroids do that every time. Every other night I am wide awake. Still, without them I would be in a very bad way - they are a necessary evil.
