Strawberries and cream

A summer picnic in the park is not complete without strawberries and cream. This particular cream was Chantilly extra thick (reduced to 48p) and had a hint of vanilla and bourbon. Quite delicious.

The weather was lovely enough to sit on the grass in Wythenshaw park at 7pm!! We went out at around 3pm expecting to have just a couple of hours of warmth when actually the sun shone right up until we left for bedtime - the children's 'bedtime' not ours of course. ;-)

Look what we found...

.... in our local pond! (Or boating lake, fake lake thingy in Alexandra park.)

We went to feed the ducks and instead we found a little terrapin. Well actually we found three but the two bigger ones were further away and didn't look so cute. And yes, the water really is that disgusting green colour! In fact it was a little smelly and there appeared to be as many plastic bags, bottles and other random bits of rubbish as there were fish....