I had visions of exploding jam jars if the honey was still 'live' and off tastes if it was 'killed' - but if you have a recipe it might, should, have been tested.

I have a recipe for marrow and ginger jam that was quite good. I made it one year when the courgettes got away from me and one of them weighed 6lb. I imagine that you could grow such things easily - as long as you can supply the water.

Here a summer long drought is something for the record books - years ago now there were two dry years together and the country looked very strange, the wrong colour. Then when it rained - and rained - everyone was either moaning about it or predicting disaster.