Blackberrying

Always go blackberrying every year, and have a freezer full of blackberries for crumbles, pies and jams. They are free!

I asked my 12 year old GD last Saturday if she wanted to carry on the tradition of blackberrying with Nan , we used to both go out on my mobility scooter but those days are gone.

She gave me such a look I thought she was going to say something like obviously not , now she is 12 going on 22. She said ' Nan I can't believe you even thought I wouldn't want to go with you, it's one of ' our special times'.

So God willing it will be strawberries and ice cream soon until I am sick of eating them .

ContraryMary88, you didn't by any chance have Rossi's ice cream in Hounslow, did you? I used to love their coffee ice cream, from a shop near the station.

My DGC, age 5 and 7, absolutely love picking (and eating, obviously) absolutely anything edible, and blackberrying is definitely on their seasonal calendar.

We always went when I was a child, including the cat, all went over to the fields at the back of our house, Mum made masses of Bramble Jelly, plus pies and tarts for all the family, they all chipped in with apples. missdaventure we had Rossi’s ice cream too!
Recently we used to go to a disused quarry where there were rows and rows of Blackberry bushes, went back one year to find all of the bushes were bare, a dog walker said that a large mini bus full of people showed up with crates and picked the lot. This has happened each year, we can’t seem to get there early enough in the year to beat them to it.

We always go blackberrying and will this year. Took both DGSs last year and request has been made to do it again. Pies and crumbles. Yummy.

We have loads in the lane behind our house and I make bramble jelly every year (DH hates the seeds), but it takes forever to make. Then I end up giving it away, as we always have more than we can eat.
Ours are still not ready to pick yet.
Blackberry vodka sounds a good idea.

We like bramble jelly better than the jam.

We used to go blackberrying but are now lucky enough to have a garden which had some wild blackberries in the hedge, which DH has 'cultivated' and added to. The DGC love picking the soft fruit! We never get elderberries as the pigeons reach them first.
I need to find a source of damsons and sloes now.

We have Blackberry bushes in our garden (how lucky ate we?) but they are not doing so well this year. However, whilst dog walking the other day, we picked loads and plan to go back (when it’s cooler) to see what sort of haul we can gather. Ours tends not to be turned into jam (far too much already in our cupboards), but we have started this years batch of blackberry vodka

I would love to go blackberrying again, but I'm not sure the ten year old 'gangsta' would be up for it.
We used to love it as children.
Covered in scratches, fingers all stained purple, but my mum made lovely apple and blackberry pies.
Sometimes we even got a dollop of Rossi icecream with it.

Should proofyread! A dying pastime.