I picked cherries today. Just the low-hanging ones – there’s more on the branches higher up. I got about 8 litres, I think. And nearly all of them perfect, unpecked by birds! Most years we throw away nearly as much as we pick.

Part of them will become a sheet cake, based on this recipe. It’s the best way to store cherries all year round.

Eric will use some of them to try and recreate Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream, with cherries and dark chocolate. It used to be our favourite ice cream flavour in London. It’s almost never available here in Stockholm for some reason. (Plus Ben & Jerry’s don’t taste as good as they used to, anyway.)