Raining scones and jam

It's raining today.  About time too.  There is a heavy cloud all around us that's a bit like fog but we don't mind at all as it's bringing some steady falls.  The garden was staring to look a little deep fried.  It's not the heat, but the wind. The hydrangeas faint and the fruit trees start to look like satay sticks.  It's like taking your hair dryer out into the garden, plugging it in and blowing hot air on your veggie patch, for a couple of days.  So hooray for rain.  Being a Friday there's not much happening on the gardening front but we could always take shelter in the glasshouse.  We've been known to muster up a decent mug of tea and scones with some homemade jam to discuss new plantings, or in some cases post mortems.  Of course being jam makers now (note the tone of righteousness) we must have scones to showcase the jam, in the words of Scone Master Sally Wise.  And the beauty of the scone making exercise is that the leftovers go in the freezer to be reincarnated as breadcrumbs for tonight's Flathead.  Gotta love a bit of frugal every now and then.