This time, there will be a team from Rangiora. We plan to fly down there in mid-August and get to know them a bit and start to gel as a united team before we get there.
The jam has been walking steadily off the jam table and now the marmalade season is well and truly here. I am about to make more Lime Marmalade. The Three Fruits Maramalade is made of oranges, lemons and grapefruit. I am hard-pressed to produce any jam now that the summer fruit season has gone, but Apricot and Peach jam will soon be there also, due to some unseasonable peaches turning up cheaply at my favourite greengrocery.
I have lately been teaching someone to make jam. Maybe she will start to help and it won't all be on my shoulders. That would be great! Until then, I had better go - the jars are calling me...