Of challenges and cormorants

I appear to still be on target to upload a different number of blog postings in each month of the year. That will be a nice achievement, even though I've done it before.

We had a lovely day yesterday. We took advantage of my unexpected Bank Holiday off, and also of the fine weather, to avail ourselves of one of Suffolk's finest beaches, where there also happens to be the finest ice-cream I have tasted in many a year. There's a shop that makes their own gelato, and then they make their own ice cream from that gelato. It is a rare taste of Heaven, and makes me wonder what else could be manufactured in this doubling-up way that could lead to more culinary perfection. If venues can make gelato and then use that to make ice cream, can they also make soup and then use that soup to make curry? Can they make their own bread and then use that to make their own wedding cake? (Those aren't brilliant examples but I hope you see what I'm getting at).
Anyway, seeing Mathew's face when he took a first slurp of toffee gelato was a delight; and seeing the way he charged around the seafront chasing seabirds was a reminder of just how much sugar there is in these treats we buy for our children... Next time he's having a tomato.

RC 27-8-24