Ok so now that Primrose is back at school, Poppy and I have a bit more time to get experimental in the kitchen.  When I say experimental, I mean Poppy grabs at everything and puts it into her mouth and I try out yet another recipe for country fayre without much success.  I am slightly worried that I have lost my cooking mojo of late.  4 failed loaf attempts, an apple jelly which quite frankly looks like treacle and a chutney that tasted purely of vinegar.  Mmmm.  Well they do say that practice makes perfect.  I blame a dear friend for her suggestion of entering a WI competition.  Since deciding to enter my apple jelly, I have had nothing but disaster in the kitchen.  After hours of searching for the right apple (thank you lovely lady 2 streets away for your windfall apples), then boiling to setting point, I was left with half a jam jar.  All that effort and the result tasted a little medicinal.