Compote of rhubarb and wasps

One of the last things to happen before we left for Cropredy, was a sudden loud bang in the kitchen and a powerful fruity, yeasty smell. I looked round but couldn't see anything obvious. It was only later that I saw this (the cloud of wasps caught my eye)



















and still later, this.

It seems a plastic bottle of grapefruit and mango juice had fermented quietly away to itself while waiting to be thrown away. It must have got bored with fermenting so exploded noisily. I think the penguin mug was a bit surprised :) And I thought the rhubarb stewing on the stove had caused the smell. We were going to have it with mackerel but the various smells and stuff were all so exciting I forgot it (now safely frozen away so we won't have exploding rhubarb).

It's amazing how quickly fermented fruit juice sets hard onto ceilings and plastic penguin mugs' heads. Fortunately I had help (phriend, the photographer, cleaned it up for me) as, what with packing and mackerel there seemed to be quite a lot going on.