jam chutney and wine

Well the E has broken on my keyboard making it very hard to type! I have been making jam - an antiviral elderberry jam found here http://www.jameswong.co.uk/#/antiviral-jam/4548324208 I made double and got 2 large jars and one small one. The house round the corner have left a bucket of dropped cooking apples outside every day for anyon to take so I used 3 of their apples. I also used a dried eucalyptus leaf and 2 fresh homegrown chillies and a lemon rather than lime, so slightly altered the recipe. My recipe is 800g elberberries 3 small cooking apples ( type unknown) 800ml water juice of 2 lemons a few dried eucalyptus leaves ( from my parents tree which was cut down last autumn) 2 fresh chillies 1kg of sugar I boiled the ingredients in a the water, seived the mixture and collected the pulp. Then added the sugar and boiled and simmered till it reached gel point. I actually have a jam thermometer but it never reached the mark for jam but is very much a set jelly so looking like my thermometer which cost £9 was a waste of money. In the end I relied on the chilled plate test my Mum used to do! I left a pot outside the house where the apples came from in thanks. Well I reckon of you take something even if offered you should give something back. This was on friday. Today I made apply and blackberry jam and green bean and apple pickalili. Oh and syphoned the peapod shuck ( wine) into bottles and finally at 21:16 am cooking some dinner. I am knackered and starving and need to eat now. I have not had time all day for food but have existed just on coffee and raspberry tea! I saw Walter this morning too. Came for peas. The weather is getting colder anmd he needs an easy feed I think. Came for brakfast. Ate loads and then flew off as always. He has been very friendly recently sitting with me in the early morning just after dawn. he comes and sits in the alder tree and just stays there. I sit and drink tea in a garden chair. We have a strange but lovely relationship me and my wild pigeon. Hes most definitely a wild animal but seems to feel afection for his rearers and like to be known to us. Amazing really. I feel so fortunate, I could almost say blessed but I am not religious but our relationship is not at all as I would have dreamed could happen. I expected Walter to fly away free and that would be that. But still he makes it very plain he wants to visit us. But only when the world is asleep in the early morning and there is just him and me awake in the garden! I sent my book off to the agents - or the first 50 pages. Every day when the postman comes I expect it to come back but so far nothing. First agent I have approached tho so time will tell. I am afraid tpo hope after all the likelyihood they will want to be my agents is so slight. Not that it isnt a good book. It is. But I have already rewritten page 10 so who knows. Maybe it is not time yet?