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Today (another public holiday), I took the two oldest children down to the local berry farm, and we spent about 1/2 an hour picking raspberries. I think today must be about the hottest day we've had all summer - and we roasted out there among the raspberry canes, but the children were very proud of themselves, and they worked really hard. I kept 2 kg out, and tomorrow we make jam, and I've frozen 2 kg's of raspberries as well, so we can make more in the wintertime. There's a few left over to have with icecream for desert tonight.

Hopefully next year, we'll have our own raspberries to pick.

They were so hot and exhausted afterwards (me too), that I treated them to a drink of Coke (I've heard that's good if you get dehydrated), and a big creamy icecream of their choosing.

On the way home, I called into a garden nursery I've never been to before, and I found the climbing rose, "Birthday Present". It was one of my Grandmother's favourite, and my mother had it growing up a fence in my childhood home. It has the most beautiful fragrant, velvety flowers you've ever seen, and it's a really hard rose to find. I'm so thrilled with it.