[shokkyy]

cos I finally got around to some serious blackberry picking today and I've now got 2.5 kilo of them in the freezer

That should keep me in apple and blackberry pie for a few months. I do like berries, they're so easy to freeze and so easy to cook from frozen.

[Yorkie]

  Well done 

[Madame Cholet]

You cant beat that feeling of picking food for free. Real sense of achievment I like to think i'm beating the system if money doesn't change hands, foraging bartering growing your own. etc.

[Foghorn-Leghorn]

Excellent!  All the blackberry bushes around here are spent now  shame as I only got to make one batch of Blackberry Brandy 

[madcat]

Hmmm... what does it say about me that I read the title and assumed the making of sloe gin ...   

[shokkyy]

Hmmm... what does it say about me that I read the title and assumed the making of sloe gin ...  

Yeuch. Tastes like cough medicine to me, but then so does gin

Excellent!  All the blackberry bushes around here are spent now  shame as I only got to make one batch of Blackberry Brandy 

A lot of the bushes here are spent too, but there's still plenty that are good to pick. I was wandering around a 220 acre private estate covered in big mature hedgerows, so there was an awful lot to choose from. I could have happily spent the entire day wandering around picking, and I very nearly did

[Foghorn-Leghorn]

That sounds lovely - what a great way to spend the day 

[Kleftiwallah]

That sounds lovely - what a great way to spend the day 

Don't forget what they say about        Michealmas.... ...Cheers,   Tony.