Fruit Picking At Scaddows – A Slice Of Normality

picking blackcurrants at scaddows

Our annual trip to Scaddows Farm in Derbyshire is truly a crown pleaser. For years and years (I’m talking when Eva was in a carrier whom is now a fully fledged almost 10 year old!) we have frequented this pick your own farm for strawberries, gooseberries, raspberries and blackcurrants. We even picked pumpkins last year, something we will definitely repeat if this weird world we live in in 2020 allows.

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Letters From Lockdown – More Of The Same

Honestly I was not sure whether to write this lockdown update. Week 9 and there are no new feelings, no new news (I have to confess to not really keeping up daily anymore, a quick BBC News highlight is enough for me right now). I have written about every week so far so it seemed only right and I guess very usual to just have a bit of a ‘more of the same’ kind of week.

Nothing has changed (yet)

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