Presumption

Blue skies and sunshine today, with a cold breeze causing leaves, gold and brown, to rain down from the trees. Despite a somewhat disturbed and uncomfortable night, I got myself going early enough to get out and enjoy the sunlight and take more autumnal photos. I walked up to Llandaff Weir, having heard that a largish brown bird with a longish bill had been seen up there. On this occasion the Taff was swollen with yesterday's rain, and no birds were to be seen at all in the vicinity.

Clare spent the morning bottling the half a dozen jars of the crab apple jelly and the puree she made. The yield wasn't up to last year's standard, nor the flavour as subtle, probably something to do with the early dry spell after fruiting began, but still acceptable and pleasant. I returned from walking in time to take over cooking a chick pea and vegetable curry for lunch under Clare's supervision. 

Then, a few shopping errands, including a visit to the Post Office to send Rachel and Jasmine's birthday cards to Arizona, the two went in the same envelope. It was thin enough to go at the lowest rate, but because it weighed just a bit more than twenty grams, I had to fill in a customs declaration. What time wasting nonsense! I hope it's not going to be like that after the end of the brexit transition period. I still can't think of any good reason why the UK should be leaving the EU, with so many hassles around trade and transport, which no doubt will cost the country plenty at a time when it's least needed.

After supper, Clare had an on-line Eurythmy Association annual meeting and I languished in front of the telly. There was a revelatory documentary programme on BBC Wales about the quadruple murder of a family in Clydach near Swansea twenty years ago with new evidence and selectively discarded evidence that the wrong person was convicted, although tried twice. Not all of the huge volume of case evidence gathered was made available to the Counsel for the Defence at the time. It will be interesting to see what happens if the case gets re-opened. Was the original suspect presumed to be the only possible perpetrator because of his relationship to the deceased, despite lack of evidence placing him at or near the scene of the crime? Were other possible perpetrators disregarded because presumed to be un-involved because of their standing or status. A real life criminal profiler was interviewed, and his analysis of the man who has spent fifteen years imprisoned for this crime was significant. But, we shall see what happens next.