Thursday...

Dr Anne went to the utility room to get her washing.  She looked at the big freezer packed full with her fruit of the year.  The fuse had blown and the freezer was off.  Dr Anne opened the door.  Shock, horror, the freezer had been fused for a while.  All the fruit was defrosted.

Only one thing to do... Focus... Cancel all plans.  Jam making had to be the priority. The rasps were defrosted but fresh.  Dr Anne had 1kg jam sugar.   Shona, next door offered her jam pan and 4kg of jam sugar.  Into the pan, kg after kg, after kg rasps. Wendy arrived for the Pilates session.  She set off to Buckie for jam sugar as the Coop in Portsoy does not stock sugar suitable for jam.  She arrived back with 10kg.  

Dr Anne was lucky she had purchased her jam jars from Amazon and they had arrived at the beginning of the week.  There were 72 new jars.  

So...  25 jars made by the time Dr Anne was due to head to the dancing.  On the way up the road she told her friend Fia what had happened.  Fia said she would come round after tea to help.  Sure enough she was there with sister Ellen.  Fia wrote all the labels, Ellen unpacked all the jars.  By the time the girls went home there were 80 jars of rasp jam.  

The black currants and red currants were stewed and sitting in their jelly bags.  

78 jars of rasp jam are ready, labelled and packed for the charity stalls.  

The black currant jelly is cooling.  The red currant jelly is cooling.  Fed up with strawberry smoothies there are strawberry muffins in the oven.  

Sadly there was some waste but focus, help from friends and a high level of motivation made sure much was saved.