Simple pleasures

Today the children go back to school - but not in this part of the country as they are having a non pupil day for teacher training - that's after having six weeks holidays!! I'll say no more.

So, instead of taking L to school today, he came round first thing to spend the day with me - and what a day we had. Simple - but fun.

Firstly L helped me bake a cake in between playing on the WII and his DSI - the cake won.

Then, after clearing away and washing up we decided to go out and collect some bits from the woods to make up my Autumn table decoration which L is helping me create. You might remember that I made a Summer Jubilee/Olympic one back in June which you can find here. So off we went in seach of acorns, conkers, fir cones and golden leaves in our local woods.

However after much foraging, we found nothing - deciding that it was too early in the season so will have to go back another day.

Then, we went to another area where we could do some blackberry picking -

I had taken a couple of boxes with me just in case.

This time we were a lot luckier with our foraging

We met a few four legged animals on the way much to L's delight

And he even managed to find a fox / badger's hole - not sure which?

and this pretty butterfly

A well deserved reward for all his hard work this morning

Back home we turned out the blackberries which weighed approx 1kg

And by this time, the cake had cooled down

Well, thanks to that silly non pupil day, L and I had an excellent time and have vowed that we are going to go back to the blackberry bushes that were not quite ripe and also to look for more autumnal bits. Looking forward to making a yummy blackberry and apple pie, but L has now informed me that (1) he doesn't like blackberries and (2) he's allergic to apples !! - so all the more for me and his grandad then.

L has asked me to tell you that he helped write this post and hopes that you enjoyed our walk today.

See you again soon