RustyRaven

I absolutely agree. All jams are better home made, but apricot is probably the most different. I don't generally make a lot of apricot jam because the fruit can be a bit expensive, but $25 for 10kg was a great deal. And they are really good looking fruit too, just some cosmetic marks on the skin.

I just picked up 10kg of slightly rain damaged apricots. This weekend's activities are now set, there will be much preserving.

Local Facebook drama today. The conflict between two competing Ballarat community groups has come to a head, with the admin of one group threatening to delete the group because people were not kind in the comments on their foulmouthed video tirade about FOGO bins.

I'll have the second best ice cream sundae ever please.

Happy New Year 🥳🎉🎉🎉

I completely missed the whole midnight countdown thing, I thought it was still much earlier. Oops.

I'm pretty happy with the way things are going at the moment, so I guess just keep doin' what I'm doin'. Boring for a New Year's Resolution, but boring is good.

I need to stop spending money, I just spent a small fortune on updated noise cancelling headphones. I've decided I am going to go cold turkey, no more spending for the rest of the year.

Make pasta. Stay up as late as I can. Sleep in as late as I can.

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Commisserations, those rampaging grass pollens should really be illegal. It seems to be a bad couple of days for hayfever, but I found yesterday was worse for me.

The cake was popular at work. If anyone would like a slice, please help yourself

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This was a cooked/bottled mix. Sort of a very chunky sauce/jam mix. It mostly seems to have been absorbed into the cake, which has made it very moist and flavourful.