After a week of being spoilt with such gorgeous weather as we had last week, this week has been in comparison mostly a complete wash out! It has been wet and I haven't been able to get out much with the boys as a result. With Daddy being at home today I had access to the car (yay!) so I wanted to make sure that the boys and I enjoyed a day of getting out and about.
And we did!!
Firstly, we went strawberry picking to a farm which is only a couple of miles outside of Barnstaple. Things have changed since I went picking your own strawberries with my nan when I was a child, as back then it was an open field. Today, we entered a polytunnel to collect our fruity bounty, and had the whole one to ourselves - well we were there at 9.30am! Burton felt very important because the woman in the shop gave him the basket and told him he could hold it as he was in charge. Well if I heard it once, I heard him say about 10 times how he was in charge of me!!
I can honestly say that the strawberries we picked were the juiciest most delicous and sweet strawberries I have had in a LONG time.
Then at lunch time we headed over to a Gnome Reserve . Now I have lived in this part of the country since I was 12 and I have never visited this place....until today! It was actually a lot of fun and all of the gnomes are displayed inside a wood and there are a LOT of them!! All visitors to the gnome reserve have to wear gnome hats too!!!
I was not asked to mention the Gnome Reserve, it is just so you know that it is real!!
Oh, WOWIE!! a heck of a lot of fun happening over your way!!
ReplyDeleteYour little gnome is just too cute. I wouldn't normally want a gnome in the garden but....
ReplyDeleteDo they still weigh you on the way in and out? Loving the gnomes
ReplyDeleteGreat pics! Looks like a great day out, although you don't look altogether that impressed with your hat!! :)
ReplyDeleteawww i'd love to live near a gnome reserve, fabulous :)
ReplyDeletehow fantastic you and your boys sure did make the most of the day, loving the Gnome Reserve too and the hats you have to wear too just adds to the adventure fantastic x x x
ReplyDeleteSnap! Must be the week of dodge the showers and a spot of Pick you own! Poly tunnels look like the perfect answer for a wet afternoon! Those little Gnomes remind me of The Smurfs! Looks like lots of run a round space for little ones there I bet they were quite worn out at the end of the day. Thank you for linking up to Country Kids
ReplyDeleteit was nice to get out of the house and have some outdoors fun!! x
ReplyDeletewe did after such a rubbish week of wet weather x
ReplyDeleteit was good fun and we will be back!! x
ReplyDeletethanks. i took the photo of me myself so its hard to smile and snap away i think lol x
ReplyDeletehee hee i could loan him to you for a day if you like....?! x
ReplyDeleteit was a good day x
ReplyDeleteThe gnome hats are so precious
ReplyDeleteHey that gnome place looks great :-) lovely photos,glad you had a good time
ReplyDeleteI love the gnomes! Fantastic
ReplyDeleteLove your pictures of the Gnome reserve, excellant!
ReplyDeleteWe love to go strawberry picking too and they always do taste better
Love your pictures of the Gnome reserve, excellant!
ReplyDeleteWe love to go strawberry picking too and they always do taste better
Thank you it was good fun x
ReplyDeleteThank you it was a fun place to visit!
ReplyDeleteHee hee x
ReplyDeleteI want to go to a Gnome Reserve! It looks fab! x
ReplyDeleteHaha Gnome Reserve sounds awesome!! I wanna go!
ReplyDeleteyou would love it!!! x
ReplyDeleteAww what you little gnomes you have and I have to say, your funny little head suits you rather well. Germans are addicted by gnomes btw, so what looks like a gnome colony here would be your average front garden in Germany ;)
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