Cordial success

The rose and elderflower cordial was a complete success (even though I wondered if I ought really to leave it at 'room temperature' for a whole 36 hours when room temperature was about eighty degrees!). It worked perfectly. It tastes delicious, and exactly as it should.



I wonder what on earth went wrong with the first batch? I've never had any trouble with that other recipe before.

Giant vegetables

The local greengrocer doesn't deal in half-measures.

I've just received a fifteen-inch cucumber and two twenty-two-inch leeks!

Edit: I made the ends of the leeks into soupy leek rice with poached egg, since I already had a potion of leftover leek and kidney bean chilli in the freezer -- the usual destination for the tough green bits of leeks -- and I had to cut off at least the top third before I could fit them in the refrigerator ;-p