Strawberry Picking

Today, Louie and I met up with my school friend, Helen and we went to Whetstone Pastures for a spot of Strawberry Picking!
Neither of us had been before, so it was a totally new experience for us and neither of us knew quite what to expect. We collected our punnets and headed off for the fields.

First we went for the strawberries. Louie had great fun looking in the bushes to find some juicy strawbs. Although, he did seem more drawn to the not yet ripe, green ones.

He was so good as we walked up and down the little aisles of strawberries, being very gentle with the plants and being careful not to walk on them.

Then we ventured off to see what other fruits we could find, and picked a mixed punnet of blackberries, blackcurrants and raspberries. We were disappointed not to find gooseberries, they were all on the floor, or bright red, which we didn't think was ripe to pick.

After we were happy with our collection, we headed back to the little covered area which had a sandpit, bales of hay, a little wendy house and tractors to play on. We all had fun climbing on the hay and Louie was being very grown up going up the steps and down the slide all by his self!

We visited the cafe for a well deserved cuppa, well hot choccie, and we were greeted by strawberry madness. Everywhere you turned there were strawberries! It was a very cute little cafe!

Outside, Louie had a go at milking the pretend cow!

All in all, I went home with about £1.50 worth of fruit, which isn't half bad. You would pay about £4 for that amount in the supermarkets ;) Tomorrow, we are having one of Nana's friends round for tea so I am going to make a delicious Summer Pudding with the fruits. Yum Yum!