- Go now and find a hedge.
2.Wear suitable clothes. Flared jeans suck up the damp mud like an oil wick in a lamp.
3. Do not take the greedy Labrador. She will always find the fattest, most juiciest berries before you and eat them all.
3. Do not wear your favorite scarf, it will get caught fast in the brambles and leave you tangled and stuck like some nineteenth century damsel except this time there will be no dashing hero riding by to rescue you.
4. Gather your berries, leaving enough for the birds.
5. Turn on rain.
6. Squelch home. (See No. 2.)
7. Throw into an oven-proof bowl with some stewed apple.
8. Top with some leftover frozen crumble.
9. Serve with assembled family and some M&S custard. (I can't make custard, 'blushes')
10. Light candles and eat in front of the Great British Bake Off Final.
Who is going to win and if you are reading this afterwards -was he/she a worthy winner?
Love your recipe :o) I never remember to wear old clothes and always come back stung/ scratched/ pierced with thorns and generally stained. But it wouldn't feel like proper blackberrying if I didn't xx
ReplyDeleteHeeHee, I like that notion CT, I did wear my purple and scratched fingers as a badge of honour!
DeleteAll the best,
Shauna.x
I send MissM out with the tupperware container and her boyfriend. They don't object and I get fresh blackberries without prickling my fingers. Win!
ReplyDeleteYes Alice, I will be filing that idea away for when the boyfriends come a-calling here. A test of their willingness to please the Mama? Don't you just love the word tupperwear? Thanks for calling by, hope to see you again soon.
DeleteLove,
Shauna.x
Hmm...steps 9 and 10 sound the best out of the whole experience! Hope your scarf has survived for another day... I'm sticking to apples from my mum's garden - far easier!
ReplyDeleteHi Louise, the scarf did survive the ordeal-just! It is lovely being able to help yourself to someone else's apples.
DeleteTake care,
Shauna.x