After work last night the weather was so perfect a picnic was inescapable. We took prawns and strawberries to the moor, beside some standing stone circles.
As ever, Mme Lupin settled down at base camp while I struck out – past wild foals, skylarks, irises, swallows – to the bog cotton and the sundews in an Elizabethan strip mine.
Jun 27, 09:59AM PDT | 11 cheers | 0 comments
Silvie is thinking good thoughts for Sadie
Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera – you will have to imagine.
The 3 of us at work who are about to be redundant took off at lunchtome for a couple of hours – we bought salads, quiche, and strawberries from M & S and took them to the park, where we sat in the sun and enjoyed it all.
Shame we had to come back to work.
Jun 24, 06:09AM PDT | 9 cheers | 0 comments
Silvie is thinking good thoughts for Sadie
Picnic season is upon us.
This seems like a good goal to have right now.
Jun 17, 01:54AM PDT | 6 cheers | 1 comment
This was on Thursday, I think. It had rained but cleared to a perfect evening.
Straight from work to a hill fort dating to 300 BCE. Never been there before – about 10 miles from home – and it was huge, really defined still, with a marvellous view all the way around to the sea and two moors. Butterflies everywhere. The pic is taken from the middle of the inner circle.
Mme Lupin brought a good picnic and, after eating, she sat and read while I strode the ramparts, quixotically :)
Jun 16, 01:00PM PDT | 17 cheers | 3 comments
Yesterday after work, I stopped at the Co-op and bought a sandwich and a smoothie and carried them up to the heath. Can one picnic alone? Not alone at all, because I used my Quackberry to chat on GMail for an hour while enjoying this view.
Jun 04, 02:14PM PDT | 13 cheers | 2 comments
Straight from the office to the south coast for a picnic on the harbour wall. The wind’s picking up and the forecast isn’t good for tomorrow but this has been a perfect week. A good picnic, too: olives, good bread, cherries and strawberries; fizzy water to drink rather than wine (Mme Lupin has a car for a few days) but that’s no loss.
Jun 04, 02:10PM PDT | 10 cheers | 3 comments
on the way to work and returned to share my sandwich with them at lunchtime. There’s a large warren under the tree. Perhaps this doesn’t qualify as a proper picnic but it’s close. Walking back towards the office (no more than 200m), I checked the bullrushes: frogs everywhere!
Feb 20, 10:45AM PST | 9 cheers | 0 comments
first picnic with zabaione Carnival sweets
Feb 19, 01:56AM PST | 13 cheers | 6 comments
Sitting at my desk, thinking of my Bradamantean friend’s post today regarding her picnic, I had no choice but to phone Mme Lupin to arrange a trip to the beach after work.
The light didn’t last long – and the food and drink was whatever we could find on the way (and fit in my briefcase) – but nonetheless: we too have started the year’s picnicking!
Feb 17, 10:48AM PST | 18 cheers | 12 comments
ages passed since our last picnic
but finally
yesterday we went to a quite particular part of our region, we explored the area and had a gorgeous picnic on a little peninsula:
the breeze was pleasant, the heat sufferable and mosquitos very gracious towards us
Aug 29, 2008, 01:40AM PDT | 8 cheers | 5 comments