On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:49:57 +0100, Janet > wrote:

> Last January our local supermarket ran a customers home-made marmalade
> competition, to win a very nice ss maslin pan and jam thermometer. I
> entered a jar of my January batch of course. My husband, who had never
> made marmalade in his life before, decided to make a batch just so he
> could win the jam pan.
>
> and guess what, his marmalade beat mine and he won the pan.
> <splutter>.

Ha! Beginner's luck.

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