January stuff

Seville orange marmalade, Forges-L'Evêque 2014

Well, that's that job done for another year.  The thick cut batch is a shade underdone, but who wants mush?  It all set nicely at the first time of asking, and is safely stashed away under the stairs.  In the process of drumming up enough jars for the three batches, I actually found a jar of last year's lurking in a corner.  Annoying, since I'd resorted to a couple of jars of Fortnum's on the assumption that we'd run out.

We did about as well or badly as usual in the Mayor's Quiz on Saturday, scoring 69% cf. the winning saddos' 95%!  My ambitions are modest: I'd love us to beat the MP's team, but doubt whether we golden oldies stand much chance against a bunch of House of Commons researchers.  Politely went and said hello to Rt Hon Gent, taking care to count my fingers afterwards.  (Actually, not a bad bloke for a Tory...)  All good fun, which is what it's about, after all. 

Art class last week was quite useful: while others toiled away at the current topic of 'celebration', I did some work on colour mixing.  I'm determined that the third attempt at the piece I've been struggling with will not founder again solely because I have gone for the wrong colour mixes.  So a few more thumbnails, and a few more pages of mixes tomorrow, I think.  Then big canvas and big brushes.

The iPad continues to baffle.