Blackberries

[enitharmon]

It was a glorious autumn day with an extra-high tide on the channel. Much too nice to be indoors, so I walked up North Scale way and then across the island to West Shore, gathering blackberries as I went. Not being greedy, I got a kilo. I feel another crumble coming on!

Comments

[pussreboots.livejournal.com]

They look delicious. Enjoy your crumble. :D

[gingergeoff.livejournal.com]

Ohh, can I come round?

[dododumpling.livejournal.com]

I went blackberrying a couple of weeks ago, when only a few were ripe, and I haven't had chance to go since. I think I'll have to go this weekend. Enjoy your crumble!

[swanofkennet.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes! Let's have a blackberry crumble party!

[swanofkennet.livejournal.com]

Are there still loads of them around Diddington Pits? Or is that area now housing estates? We're talking nearly 25 years since I lived in that neck of the woods.

[dododumpling.livejournal.com]

I've only been blackberrying around there once, about seven years ago - it was a good place to go! No houses up there as yet, but at the rate that land is being developed around here, it's only a matter of time.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Humph! I remember a very similar sight a few years back. We were in Tasmania on a family holiday, and it was our day to drive over to the west coast. We stopped for lunch beside some mountain lake, beautiful blue sky, clear water, empty picnic tables. Had our lunch - fresh bread, crumbly cheddar, hard-boiled eggs, and then we all had a brief explore.

Thickets of wild blackberries along the shore. Filled a plastic container full, had a berry or two - yummy beyond belief - and then tucked the container into the back seat for later consumption when we got to our night's stop in Queenstown.

I guess I was thoughtless to put a pail of blackberries in with two children and expect to ever see them again, but when we stopped for the night, there was the container. And a few smears of sweet juice.