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This is nothing to do with anything, which I gather is what the Snug is for, but I have a glut of quinces off the old tree and I am not letting them go to waste. Does anybody still make quince cheese? My mother did, the colour of a garnet, but I have lost her way of it and the books all disagree. And while I am asking, what is everybody reading to get them through the dark afternoons. I shall start. I am on my third Miss Read and not ashamed.

Quince cheese! My grandmother made it and the smell of the quinces sitting out in a bowl is half the pleasure, do leave them a few days first. I will dig out her method, it is on a card somewhere in her hand. As for reading, I am ashamed to say a great fat county history I am meant to be reviewing, so I am living vicariously through your Miss Read, Nan.

I shall lower the tone and admit to a detective novel, the sort where nothing very bad really happens and the vicar is a comfort rather than a suspect. After forty years of the real thing I cannot be doing with grim. Nan, if you find the quince cheese method I should be glad of it too.

You are all so lovely. I am reading the same picture book about a tractor for the four hundredth time, so I am taking notes for an evening I might get free in about fifteen years. The quinces sound gorgeous though. Can you freeze them? Asking for a woman with no time and good intentions.

Sam you can freeze them love, whole, and deal with them when the little one is at school. That is what I shall tell myself anyway. Margaret a kindly vicar is exactly right for November. And Janet yes I will leave them to perfume the kitchen, my mother did the same now you say it. Funny how it comes back .