Holiday Fun - Strawberries!!!!

Today I decided it would be good to go and do something with the kids that we hadn't done before, so we went strawberry picking.

The strawberry farm is about 20 minutes from home (if that) and very reasonably priced for picking your own strawberries!

Olivia in there picking the Strawberries!

Alexander wondering why Mum has to
take the darn camera everywhere!

It didn't take long before we had a kilo of fresh strawberries and two very happy children!

Strawberry Pickers with their Pickings!!

We continued driving along the road and stopped at the Batman Bridge (pronounced Batmen - not Bat Man - no caped crusaders on that bridge). I gave the kids a quick history lesson on why the bridge was built and who it was named after.... having to convince Alex that it really was Batmen not Bat Man......

At the Batman Bridge

All the information you ever needed to know about the Batman Bridge

So we kept going on our way back home.

But what to do with a kilo of strawberries? Eat some is a very good answer! Make some yummy homemade strawberry jam is another! And there are some leftover to have on breakfast tomorrow morning too.

The jars are just finishing sterilising in the oven at the moment - so I'll take one last photo of the jam in the jar before uploading the photo's and pressing post!

The beginnings of the Jam!

Jam Cooking - bubbling away

YUMMY JAM!!!