NOT 99 Green Bottles - but 99 DAYS!!!!!!!!!

We have cracked under 100 days til Christmas, very very exciting for me.  I have already started (in fact nearly) finished the Christmas Shopping and thoughts turn soon to Christmas baking and gift making. The weather here has been a bit 'off' and quite wintry for mid September so if it holds up making the Plum Puddings at the end of the month should be quite good.    I recently had a fun day in the Midland region, visiting the Midland Railway Workshops for an open day and all the vintage stuff on show was terrific.  On the way my friend Lis and I stopped at the Farmers Market and I couldn't resist buying a large box of 'jamming' strawberries - 4.5kg for only $4.00!!  So that night some lovely Strawberry Coulis(thick yummy sauce) was under construction, slow cooker style.  The longest part was washing hulling and chopping the strawberries, but they were so sweet the aroma in the house was divine.  So cooked them on low all night, next morning added them to the pot with a 1kg of sugar, boiled them for 20 minutes then strained them and bottled them up - what can say? Yummo!  12 bottles of thick strawberry coulis for around $5, Bargain no?