Dear future grandchildren, it's true

I know I've blogged about this before but I really think we are giving the girls the kind of upbringing they will be able to use for many years worth of 'You think you've got it hard? When I was young...' ammunition on their children.

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So, future grandchildren:

Yes. It's true. You have it lucky. Your mummies really did used to spend their weekends as free child labour, weeding and hoeing and pulling garlic and onions:

in the dust and the heat- M has pulled her hat off to show off the sweat- without so much as a DS or PS or any other S to entertain them.

And some days, when they were finished hoeing and digging and tramping and harvesting, they were given a cup and told they could collect all the somethings they could find.

Not blueberries

or strawberries

or blackberries, or raspberries or mulberries.

Not peas or beans or okra or baby carrots.

Look closely.....:

That's right- caterpillars!

So, future grandchildren, mind you do as you're asked or you might be sent to stay at Granny Heather's for a 'holiday'. Plenty more caterpillars where they came from!

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We collected all the cabbage moth caterpillars off the cabbages and brought them home and fed them to the chooks. You know, cycle of life and all that...*

Don't you think Amy looks like she is trying out for Oliver Twist?

"Please sir, can I have some more? All m'lady gives me is caterpillars, and scant few at that."

*Attention WWF/ RSPCA/Save the Children/ Matsumoto Child Welfare Centre: Amy lets at least half her caterpillars run away so it's pretty much the same odds as being eaten by a bird I think. And STC/ MCWC? We don't really use them as child labour- we just don't have a working TV and we told them gardening was fun...