Blackberry Way

As we mentioned the other day, late september was the season for 'scrumping' around the apple orchards of the parish. Late september was also the time when the children of the village spread ouit through the hedgerows and lanes collecting blackberries so that their mothers could cook delights such as blackberry and apple crumble. The sort of weather that we are now enjoying was ideal for blacberrying, the main danger that you might face being that you could attract the attention of wasps who are notoriously feirce at this time of the year.

I dont know to what extent blackberrying still goes on now, but I suppose it is somewhat curtailed now that access to fields is less easy. I suppose that blackberry and apple crumble served with lashings of clotted cream if served these days to children might well earn you a visit from the health police.