It looks like a perfect day to swim, which makes a dog's life worth living.

Enjoy the gin when the time comes.

Ooooaaaaargh FM Damson Gin -- one of your better contributions to Famille Dutoit's incipient alcoholism.

She's running a little low, and you know what that means.

Well, I may be a "townie" but I've got a bumper crop of blackberries this year. Natures free barbed wire (must remember where I left those planks with nails in that I was testing the hammer on, they're in the back somewhere...) and like the rest of what passes for my garden, good eating too!