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How timely that our fabulous food section this week has two pages all about getting creative with jelly. You see, jelly is one of those foods that had slipped right off my radar, colours! So I also bought green, red and yellow jelly packets. That night, we had great fun creating a glass bowl of striped colours. The next day, Harley barely ate any of the jelly, and really, eating it wasn’t the point. The fun for him was in making it. But after he’d gone home, I found myself tucking in to that colourful bowl of wobbliness. And I remembered how much I’d loved jelly as a kid. Next time Harley is over, we might add some bits and pieces to it so they can ‘float’, just as Mum used to do with tinned peach slices. Most of the team have fond memories of jelly too. Rachel and Sarah, who grew up in the UK, recalled what a treat it was to be allowed to eat the concentrated cubes of jelly that was their version of our jelly crystals. But Jude’s memory of jelly takes the cake. She’d been up all night making a three-coloured jelly cake in the shape of a dinosaur for her son Billy’s preschool Christmas party. ‘I was so proud of it,’ said Jude. ‘It was on a tray and I wrapped it carefully in plastic wrap and put it on the back seat of the car. But it was a hot day, and I had an old car with no air conditioning. So by the time I got to the centre it was a very sticky river of multi-coloured liquid all over the back of the car. No jelly cake, and a lot of cleaning up to do!’ I bet some of our lovely readers have experienced a similar misadventure. We’d love to hear about it!