Is there enough to make jam?

Tuesday, 10.30pm

Thought for the Day - The day you forget to put your rubbish out the night before is always the day the bin men turn up earlier than normal the following day

Pug Status - Putting the pup in his place

Mowing the back lawn again today, which seems to be growing at the rate of about a foot a day. For some unexplained reason it seems to grow much quicker in the bottom corner by the house whilst remaining patchy elsewhere - I am seriously considering letting it grow wild nearer the house and then brushing it back across the rest of the garden like a massive comb-over to give the illusion of a well-kept lawn....

All a little bit too warm for Obi Pug Kenobi, who sought the sanctuary of the cool laminate flooring of the front room. She enjoyed about two minutes of peace before being ambushed by Bob the Puppy - what ensued was a mad ten minutes of ear-chewing and chasing before the traditional pug pause for breath, which sounds like someone sawing through a tree trunk with an angry gibbon....

Loads of ripe blackberries on the brambles the other side of our back fence, so I ventured out with pie dish for a good scrump, only to venture straight back in for some gloves - so many scratches on my hands from the thorns it looked like I had high-fived with Edward Scissorhands. Managed to get quite a few but, typically, the most juicy-looking ones were out of reach. Got the step-ladder out of the shed, climbed up and began to help myself to the massive fruit. All went well for a little while until the step-ladder began to sink into the soft soil under my considerable weight, causing me to glide towards the earth like I was taking a ride downstairs on one of those stair-lifts....