What have done towards your prep?

[Straight Shooter]

Finally .....All land drainage is complete (on the high level ground) and with rain yesterday is working as it should and as planned....fixed some steel stitches into an ageing retaining wall where two cracks appeared (twenty years ago) so got around to sorting that out in the end !.

Got my telescopic pole out earlier today and got 8lbs of crab apples...into the stock pot ....and now draining through a jelly bag until tomorrow when i will turn it into crab apple jelly......i have bought some winter onion sets and winter garlic gloves , they will go out this week.....John the farm called in ....i told him i intended to heat the 10 ft x 10 ft polytunnel .....I have the very thing mate ...he said its electric but cheep to run and ideal for that size.....call up ....its yours pal ....and indeed i will this coming Wednesday.

Pete .....those Kelly Kettles/stoves.....looks like most of the parts are metal spinner work (mould stock block) set into a lathe and spun and pushed onto the mould block great if you were making loads of them (and cheep) and quick ....but two much action and tooling for just a few. But they are a nice bit of kit and really do the job and well i have one 1.5 ltr .