Blackberry Bramble

Quickberry !
Quackberry !
Pick me a blackberry !

Trainberry
Trackberry
Clickety-clackberry

Rumble and ramble
In blackberry bramble
Billions of berries
For blackberry jamble

- Jamberry
Bruce Degen

Looks like nobody ventured a guess as to where I was. I should have given more clues but anyway I was in Geneva last week visiting friends. It was my first time there & actually also my first time in Switzerland.

I'd be posting the photos real soon but guess what was the first thing I did after I return ? That is after I'd done unpacking, doing the laundry & re-organising my laptop (sigh, they weren't able to recover any of the data from my macbook sob sob all my photos). Pick blackberries.

Remember the trail near our house, well it's full of wild blackberry bushes & the blackberries are all starting to ripen. It's always fun to pick in the wild but picking blackberries is probably the least fun of the berry picking because the plant is prickly & full of thorns.

The Girl was in charged of holding the basket while I picked. Note to self : Remember never to bring her berry picking again cos she just stood there eating whatever I had put in. In spite of that, we still managed to collect 1 kg of blackberries.

What do you think I should do ? Blackberry ice cream, blackberry muffins, blackberry crumble - so many options......

Note : The extract at the beginning of the post is taken from one of our favorite books - Jamberry - all about a little boy's love of berries.