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.