Beanie & Biggles are experienced blackberry pickers, but Monkey and Poppy are newbies and I was curious about how quickly they’d acquire the berry habit. It turns out they’re naturals, in fact Monkey has become so blackberry obsessed that it’s hard to tear him away if we encounter any on our walks.

Biggles coaches Poppy in her blackberry picking, which is unfortunate because after all these years he still hasn’t learned that the red ones aren’t ripe

Monkey seems to have got that one susssed


And Beanie? Well she’s happy to let me pick the best ones and give her the full waiter service :)