One thing I'll miss out due to my time in London is my family's annual strawberry-picking-and-jam-making-marathon.. My grandma's birthday is in the middle of June and as they have got a pick your own field close by every birthday visit wouldn't be complete without picking at least 6 lbs of fresh, ripe, red, flavour bursting strawberries, driving them all the 200km way home and then finishing the day off by cooking countless glasses of gloriously bright red and flavoursome jam. No question that the plamned evening salad always ALWAYS gets replaced by a proper slice of toasted bread, good butter and the still warm strawb jam. Or two, maybe three or even.. Well lets leave it at that. This year I faithfully leave the jam making duty to my family and enjoy punnets full of british strawberries instead. I can't complain!
