This morning.......

...... I had a 6 months check up with the diabetic nurse to see if I had behaved myself !
She did the usual tests ; gave me a stern talking to because I had put on 2 lbs ......2 lbs!!!!.....and had failed to achieve the BMI of a stick insect!
And heavens above ;I am consuming 8 units of alchohol a week !!......1 bottle of wine and 2 whiskies!!
Clearly I am beyond the pale!
There was nothing for it ; " I am going to have to address your diet and in 3 months time will have you back to check! "
And she fixed me with a steely look!
So I dutifully promised to live on broccoli and mung beans and run 2 marathons a day for the next 12 weeks!!

This afternoon........
......I went out and picked 4 lbs of brambles from my hedge ,which ,this evening will become 5 lbs of bramble jam .....to go along with the plum jam I made last week!

And then I went out and collected enough sloes in the field to make a litre of sloe gin ,to go along with the 3 litres of plum gin nicely pinking up in Kilner jars!!

And tomorrow I shall have a bramble and apple pie ,with .....hmmm......cream ??;..or maybe custard???

I have no doubt It will all end in tears !! :-D