I love packing picnics. It has been a while since I’ve done it**, and so this morning, upon seeing sunshine behind my bedroom curtains, I decided to take the visitors off for a picnic. After breakfast I set about giving them a time to get ready to leave, and busied myself in the kitchen. I made sandwiches (mustard, pastrami, tomato), cut slices of the delicious Christmas fruit cake my mum made two days earlier, put in some fruit (grapes and satsumas/clementines/tangerines/Idontremember), and 
made two thermos flasks of tea (mint and honey, and ordinary black tea with milk and sugar), and a couple of kitkats for emergencies.
My smaller Sainsbury’s shopping bag (imported) is just perfect for carrying all this, I discovered.
Our destination? Santa Monica beach and pier! It was a perfect day for it, and we had, yes, a perfect day:
-cvj
**Not since June, for a trip full of hope (later betrayed) to my favourite winery in the Santa Inez wine country. It was a good trip.
It was a perfect day – thanks for sharing it with us. Next time no height restrictions! cmj+
Busted! 😉
-cvj
I understand your aversion to Skee Ball Clifford–it’s because you’re embarrassed that even though you’ve gotten tenure in theoretical physics, our American sports still intimidate you. Be brave–even a British PhD can master Skee Ball if he tries hard enough!
I am delighted to have been a positive influence on the Ferris Wheel front though:)
Ferris wheel yes, Skee Ball no! Would probably not have thought of it if not for you!
-cvj
Did you ride the Ferris Wheel? Play Skee Ball?
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