Fruit Galore!

What a fun day we had today! It managed not to rain all morning, thank goodness, as we went fruit picking, with our friends. We came home with enough strawberries, raspberries and black currants to feed an army. Jude wasn't with us as she was sleeping over at a friends house. But Sam and Luke enjoyed themselves, as did Carolines boys. Luke did a great job of picking strawberries and didn't even eat them. Sam collected a whole punnet of strawberries (there was over £8 worth when I went to pay for them!) Sam and I picked raspberries while Luke happily eat about a kilo of them. He just picked them off the bush and popped them straight into his mouth. At least he got some fruit into his diet today. We came away with 2 punnets of strawberries, 2 punnets of raspberries and 2 small punnets of blackberries. Totally about £14 worth of fruit. Tonight we might have chocolate fondu with some of it. Yummy yummy. We actually bumped into Sheelagh (home ed too) and her kids who were starting to pick just as we were leaving.

Here is little Lukey picking yummy strawberries and getting "red hands Mummy".


Luke helping himself to raspberries. That's what they're there for right?

Caroline and Luke picking raspberries.


Here is Luke amoungst the blackcurrant bushes, examining exactly what is contained inside a blackcurrant.

Sam and Luke sorting out the fruits into a huge tray which Sam found. We had so much fruit we couldn't carry it by hand!



The boys and Caroline pretending to pick raspberries for the purposes of a photo.



The boys all went to the little park at the farm after our picking. Luke was delighted to find this little red car to play on.

The big lads had just as much fun at the park as Luke. Then we headed off to Sainsburys for chips and a cuppa before coming home.

I just had to add this picture of Steve and Diamond. Would you believe that Steve doesn't like dogs and would never let one on his bed? This is how I found the two of them, locked in each others arms, yesterday evening, snoozing like a pair of little babies. Ahhh.