Blackcurrants

We have four blackcurrant bushes and we picked this morning. The currants are quite small because of the dry weather and I wasn't expecting much, but Ali made this amazing blackcurrant pie!

We ate it (well half of it) with custard and ice cream and it was out-of-this-world wonderful! The pastry was just right, the fruit was juicy, the sweetness was perfect. How is it possible that some people do not like blackcurrants (although some of these people like Ribena!).

Today

Today I ran around the (Kings River end of the) lake. I used to do this quite often several years back, but last year only once and this year only once so far. The lake has to be fairly low, and it needs a couple of hours of spare time. Implied is the swim across where the river enters the lake and, for me, this takes a bit of psyching myself up. But I managed it - I did not panic and I did not drown. The weather was interesting - there was rain about and several times it came down quite hard for 10 minutes or so. Which added interest, along with the mud and stones.

Back to a hot shower and cup of tea, and then Ali and I cooked fish and chips with supposedly petit pois (according to the packet) but they were quite hard work and certainly were not petit. For afters Ali had made me Blackcurrant Pie With Ice Cream and it was most excellent. Some folk here do not like blackcurrants, a position I find hard to credit as they are my favourite. But then the same people don't like gooseberries so I suppose there must be something wrong with them.

Thanks, Ali, for being so nice to me.