BUTTER FOR THE PARSNIPS

Received a lovely gift today - these funny little Seville oranges came from Cécile's parents garden near St. Tropez.

Got my work cut out next weekend turning them into marmalade. It'll be interesting to find how it turns out. Took a weeny bite into one of them & the bitterness was blinding - think a bit of improvisation may be required!!

We'll see...

The extra shows a truly weird instrument. I was required to make a new spruce top for it as the old one had been trashed. It calls itself a "Strumstick" - it looks like a flatback Turkish Saz with the fretting of an Appalachian dulcimer. In their website, they say it was "Designed for the Musically Disinclined"

What a bummer!

The repair is going to cost 2/3 of the price of a new  instrument...

Butter for the parsnips!