marmalade sandwich

Today has been an inside-out marmalade sandwich - I began and ended it by making marmalade. I'm wondering if this is slightly heroic because I seriously don't like the stuff. Or perhaps it's the buyers who are heroic because I won't be sampling it before they do. Over breakfast I also made the first blackberry & apple jam of the season, which I did sample and it passes my quality check :-)

The middle of this sandwich was a lovely time helping to celebrate Ruth's 60th (which was in February) on a river boat trip on Southampton Water and up the Hamble, with a delicious lunch. It was good to catch up with some people who I've not seen for a long time (including David who is going with MD to Uganda next month). 

Afterwards another Ruth (M) and I sauntered around IKEA, trying out this (Ruth) and this (me) which we found so comfortable that we stayed nattering and watching the world go round before we remembered where we were! Ruth managed to escape the store with no purchases, and I came away with what I went in for (oh, plus a box of these) so I can organise the airing cupboard before work gets done in it.

This evening I found that 3 of the patterns that I listed on eBay have sold (£11.88 total, including postage) and another has sold but I've not yet been paid for it, so that total should increase. Of the remaining 2 patterns, one hasn't sold and the other still has another 2 days before I know.

My fundraising is slowly and steadily coming along, and people are being generous so I've now increased my justgiving target by £200 to £700. If I sell 49 jars of jam I'll hit that target - tomorrow I'm taking 33 jars to sell after the morning service along with some greetings cards and a couple of shawls that I brought back from India. So maybe tomorrow I'll be increasing the target again - that would certainly be good.