Just a few of the Jam pie in the making !!!!

A Busy Time With Granny!!!!!!!!!



Well done Yasmina !!!!

Yasmina 's first pie

I was just making a cheese and onion pie when Kathy arrived with Rosie and Yasmina, yesterday so with the bit of pastry that was left over I let Yasmina make her first pie. She decided to fill hers with jam and she made a jolly good job of it. Rosie quite often bakes when she comes and helps with the dinner and washing up so it was Yasmina's turn. I remember my Grandma teaching me to cook, my Mother did too as my Mother was a good cook . (She used to cook many years ago during and after the war at Eaton school for boys.)

We all had a piece of cheese and onion pie and finished off with the famous jam pie .!!!!!!! It's good to spend time with the little ones, I had felt really poorly for two days but when they come it takes your mind off yourself. Yes !!! it's lovely to see them all and it's nice when they go ha ha !!!! Peace at last.

Autumn

" Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"

As I strolled along the river on Saturday ( a lovely warm sunny day) I was reminded of school days when we made brooms with the cast off stems of Autumn leaves and collected shiny conkers for games in the school yard at break times and acorns in their little dainty cups to put in our bedrooms - they were so pretty. I was with my family and the children we had first been in the park , on the swings and slides we even had candy floss which took me back once more to childhood and the "Wakes" ( the Gipsies would set up the rides like the walzter and huge boat swings and roundabouts, also coconut shies and hoops to throw over objects to win a gold fish), we had such fun and usually went home with a coconut and a fish which of course died the day after.

I must be getting old ( almost 69yrs. now) I never thought I would start reminiscing but there you go it comes to all I suppose !!

Arad is certainly a very pretty city and different with all the seasons but I think the Autumn is one of my favourite. There are walnuts fresh from the tree now and the last of the plums and a glut of chillies. I made plum jam and chilli jam which is in great demand as it tastes great on hot chicken wings, cheese or ham.

So we await the winter, but that will be nice too with crispy white snow and icicles on the windows like lace curtains......