JetPlane

• Recommending Waitrose's Scottish Heather Honey—amazing flavour, rich. It's £5 a jar, half the price of some other Waitrose honey (NZ) #
• Just swam from Grantchester to Newnham with swimming club (about 15 of us). Took about an hour. Lovely swim, beautiful river. #
• Had fun picnic at the Riverbank Club after swim. Lots of wine & chat. Now in the garden at home sipping sherry—wonderful to sit out till 10! #
• Made honeyed Eaton Mess with Sarah and Jason's raspberries, for after BBQ. Another lovely evening, another lovely wine: The Puglist Cab Sauv #
• This is a good lampoon of today's thought for the day: Right Awful Anne Atkins – Agonising Aunt and Vicar's Wife http://j.mp/dvgVoB #
• Was impresses by the Michael Radford film version of the Merchant of Venice last night. Good review in the Guardian. http://j.mp/aWqnqC #
• Time for a Belgian Beer in the Elm Tree I think #
• Having fab picnic at Granchester Meadows with Pink Punters—we cycled over, too lazy to punt this year (blush). http://twitpic.com/28jjy6 #
• Relaxing, fun day. Picnic at Grantchester then wine, swim and Sundays papers at the riverbank club. Weather held out, but cooling off now. #

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Michael was tipped of by Liz about a group swim yesterday from Granchester Meadow to Newnham. About 15 of us walked to Grantchester (in bare feet) dodging the cow pats as we went. Group photo at the Meadow close to the tearooms before a bold dive in to the river. Lovely weather and warm clear water. The weed has grown rather tall and at times it was hard to swim through. Becky was up front in her turquoise swim cap. Swim took about 50 mins, and we were chilly when we got out. Got a nice fire going at the Riverbank Club and dragged out our wine and picnics. Stayed chatting until about 9. I don’t know where the time went.

• Michael and I are at the ADC to see Under Milk Wood. Big cast on stage. http://j.mp/9736pe http://twitpic.com/259uxf #
• Having an amazing Belgian beer at the Elm Tree. Landlord talked me into a 9% amber—Troubadour Magma http://j.mp/dB9gra Good recommendation. #
• *Under Milk Wood* blog post http://www.grahammccann.org/JetPlane/?p=2012 #
• Enjoying a member's BBQ at the riverbank club. It's cloudy, but I can feel the sun and it's tingly hot. Next a swim (carefully after wine!) #
• Parkers Piece smells wonderfully on lime blossom at the moment. Cycled past at lunch time and the sweet honey smell was pretty strong. #

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Michael and I went to see Under Milk Wood at the ADC Theatre last night, produced by Bawds.

This is one of my favourite plays and Bawds did a good job of the production. They brought a good level of action onto stage, and dramatised the dialogue well. The lead cast were great: Mrs Pugh—Rosemary Eason, Waldo—Guy Holmes, Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard—Meg Dixon, Mrs Beynon—Christine Easterfield, Nogood boyo—Tim Gifford and Polly Garter—Lindsey McAuley. It was also good to see a colleague, Fran Bourgoyne, on stage as Gossamer Beynon, with one if the more poetic lines: “Call me Delores, like they do in the stories” (with a Welsh accent). The stage production was notably bawdier in production since the famous 1950’s radio play—no surprise really, times have changed.

From the ADC Web Site:

‘Come closer now …’

Join us for a spring day in Llareggub. Dylan Thomas’s much-loved play invites us into the village where the shop sells everything—custard, buckets, henna, rat-traps—where Mr Waldo sleeps in his little pink-eyed cottage with a milk stout and a slice of cold bread pudding under his pillow, and where a cast of colourful but instantly recognisable characters is waiting to meet us—Captain Cat, lovely Polly Garter, Organ Morgan, the formidable Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, Mrs Dai Bread Two, lolling gaudy at the doorway…

The Sunday Times called Under Milk Wood ‘beautiful, bawdy, affectionate, reckless and deeply original’. The Reverend Eli Jenkins calls it ‘a greenleaved sermon on the innocence of men’. It is, by turns, funny, touching, fanciful and true.

• The train is stifling. Really looking forward to getting out at Cambridge. #
• BBQ is almost ready, and I'm trying hard not to open the new spelt beer from Glebe Farm, Cambridgeshire. http://twitpic.com/23jki4 #
• Trying a lovely Sam Smiths Organic Cherry beer. Dangerously drinkable, tastes like a pop. http://twitpic.com/23jvi3 #
• Really looking forward to the Asian Mela in Cambridge on Sunday http://trunc.it/9h1hr #
• Feel so good after my swim in the river. Very refreshing. #
• Perfect evening for BBQ: had beef ribs slow cooking in the oven while we were swimming, now listening to the Parkside music while we cook. #
• The Real Thing seem good: they started with 'Lovely Day' at Summer in the City. #
• Heading put to see the fireworks on Parkers piece #
• *Card from Mum and Dad* blog post http://www.grahammccann.org/JetPlane/?p=1991 #
• *Henley Royal Regatta* blog post http://www.grahammccann.org/JetPlane/?p=2000 #
• *Lunch at the Moon and Sixpence* blog post http://www.grahammccann.org/JetPlane/?p=2002 #
• The river is now 20°C apparently—feels like swimming in the Med, but with punts. Quite a few punting out to Grantchester in the midday sun #
• Lovely chana panipuri with a tamarind and Ginger soup. Pretty spicy. Enjoying the Parkside Mela http://twitpic.com/24d77z #
• Waiting for some pakora and samosas to be fried at 1001 Bites. Another roasting day. http://twitpic.com/24da7l #

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Made me laugh after our trip to Wales—