Yummy.......blackberries and...

plenty of them.   Now got to get on with making those pies and puddings.  Perhaps I may have a go with apple and blackberry jam. 

I was bought up on blackberry and apple jam, in the days when you could buy an enormous tin from the grocery store.  Fresh baked bread and jam - thats what we used to have for our tea. 

Dad would sit at the head of the table and be the first to pull the loaf apart - never knew how they managed to bake the bread with two "humps" so perfectly.  Dad called the "flakey" middle the "maggoty bit".  We never was allowed to have this piece, it was Dad's. 

The bread was baked in a bakery about seven miles away.  I never remember how it got to us, only that our names, one of many families living on the sheep station,  were written on the  white paper wrapping and we collected it every day from a huge wooden box high (only because we were little) in a tree with a lid that opened upwards.  The lid was on a spring, so often needed two of us to hold it open, while we found our loaves of bread. 

I am getting distracted here.....but then as we get older we do think about our younger days - mmm - now where was I?  A sure sign of getting old, if you can't remember....... Ahhh yes the blackberries I picked today.  I will freeze some as there are far too many to eat over the next few days and I will make some pies. 

Not so sure about the jam though, I will have to think about that.  Never been successful, so best not try - yet.