Spot The Dog

A warm day with a cooling breeze. Merlin and I had a walk in the meadow this morning and this afternoon. His main occupation was shrew hunting. He smells them but as far as I am aware he hasn’t ever caught one.

Otherwise, I spent rather a long time grappling with the making of blackcurrant jelly (using fruit I’d strained overnight). I couldn’t get it to set so ended up adding pectin and reheating it. That seems to have worked. I think the majority of the pectin might be in the skin of the fruit which I’d removed from the liquid when I strained it.