Cloudy and warm today 23C. After a slow start we drove to Penarth at Jasmine's request for a snack lunch on the pier followed by an ice cream on the promenade. Jas took her Canon AE1 SLR 35mm film camera with her, which used to belong to her dad and took black and white photos in our favourite retro location.
When we got home, I had to park in Llanfair Road as there was no legal parking space left in our street. Later Jasmine was determined to visit to Thompson's Park to find out if there were any ripe figs on the two trees overhanging the boundary wall of the adjacent houses. There were indeed many, but none fit to eat. Our attention was drawn instead to and abundance of fat blackberries on a neighbouring bush, so we went home to get a container and then return to forage. By then there was a parking space, so I moved the car back into the street before joining her in filling the container.
Jasmine was taken with Clare's blackberry jelly making method and wanted to replicate it here and now. Already he had set aside and filled a 100ml former spice jar with jelly for taking back to America, and had this idea of making more jelly and to fill more 100ml jars to take with her for her friends, and tell them the unique story of its making. According to Jas, as long as the jars are less than 100ml they can go through security. But will they survive customs regulations? That remains to be seen.
As I was cooking a prawn risotto for supper Jasmine took herself off to the Hobby Craft store in Leckwith, a half hour's walk from here, and returned triumphantly with the pack of 100ml jars she needed. Amazing enterprise! All of this was researched and routed from her smartphone: a true digital native in action!
Later I watched this week's live episode on 'The Sommerdahl Murders' on More Four. Although billed as 89 minutes long, it ran to 120 minutes, possibly due to the amount of prime-time advertisements shown. It meant going to bed later than expected.
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