We had been strawberry picking near Bath in Somerset and the car was full of the smell of sweet ripe fruit. As we came up to the Chew Valley Lake we espied an ice-cream van parked… and could not resist! My favourite is an oyster, a pair of shell shaped wafers lined with mallow and then filled with ice-cream. Sadly the ice-cream man was out of oysters.
“Not the season?” I quipped but he just told me there had been none at the wholesalers.
We stood and watched the water fowl enjoying the sun on Herriots Mill Pool.
Lois Elsden 
beautiful pics as always Lois!
There’s only thing tastier in the summer than pick-your-own strawberries, and that’s pick-form-your-own-garden strawberries.
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Thanks… the snails and slugs enjoy picking their own from our garden!
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True! and the birds help themselves too…
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Now if only the birds got their acts together and ate the slugs…
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I chuck the slugs from my allotment on the next plot where there are chickens, and let them sort it out amongst themselves….
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Lovely pictures Lois. 🙂
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Oh thank you!
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Oh the oyster ice cream You should try octopus ice cream. The taste really “grabs” you.
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