Terrible Twos

Well my little man seems to be starting with the terrible twos early he's a proper little boy now and wants to be into everything which includes drawing on the tv with his crayons and always getting his own way. But I have to say its worth it all as he means so so much to me and love him loads  

HOMEGROWN APPLES

Well what a bumper crop of apples we have had this year. We have a little apple tree in our garden that has 3 types of apples grafted onto it all edible and delicious, how apples should taste!!

We picked the tree up for a bargain price of 1 pound in the now defunct Woolworths, the tree has been in for about 6 years now and over the years the crop has got better.

We did have a problem with ants, but a friend who lives in kefalonia give us a tip ..... paint the trunk of the tree white (when my dad did this i thought he had cracked up!),but it has worked.

So with any apples that have fallen we have been freezing them down to use in pies etc, but i have been shown how to do a quick and easy apple juice so when your making apple pies etc here's what to do with the peeling and cores put them into a pan with water and a little sugar boil for about 10 Min's and then strain and leave to cool and then drink or bottle it up and keep in the fridge, this will last for a few days.

Littlemans new words

I am so so happy that my son has said a few more words we now get ticktock asda kangaroo, I am so proud and love him to bits

Autum Sunshine & Forraging

Well once again we are having some warm weather, so as I was having a good day I decided to take my little man out for a walk.  So myself, little man and the parents went armed with  buckets and the camera off we set, we didn't even get 5 Min's from our house and we came across some gorgeous blackberries, so we stopped and filled our buckets

Whilst picking the blackberries I stumbled across a plum tree and a cherry plum tree (people tend to grow these as ornamentals but don't realise that you can eat the berries) and ended up coming away with a little bucket of plums too.

We then headed over to our local woods where we came across hazelnuts more blackberries and rose hips, it was great to see all these growing not far fro where we live and yet no one really bothers, but yet, they go to there local supermarket and would spend at least a couple of pound on buying them when all they really need to do is go for a walk and pick them themselves.

Little man enjoyed being able to run in the long grass and generally have a good play he made me laugh so much when he picked up a dandelion clock, but instead of blowing it like I showed him he decided to eat them !!. He spat them out and started laughing too.

We then headed home through the wood where once again little man was having a mini adventure. When we got home my dad started to make some homemade blackberry jam (its sooooooo good).It makes me think that this sort of thing doesn't get done much, I remember going for walks and being shown what to pick and what not to, where as these days people would rather sit indoors with a games console.