[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by katex

You right and sure Willow, if any of your children had come back with these berries, even for the kindest reasons, (so you could make jam for 'em) I know you would have asked them where they got them from and made them go back to apologise.

I have often been on country walk as a child and picked wild berries which we took home and made fruit drinks or jam with. The story in K.S.H's link just reads like a couple out for a country ramble and coming across some berries growing wild. There's no mention of barbed wire fences or scissors.

A RAMBLER who picked berries on a country walk was hunted down by police — and cautioned for THEFT. Ian Blayney and his wife Bette spotted the rowan berries growing wild and collected a bagful to make into jam.
ry in K.S.H's link just reads like a couple out for a country ramble and coming across some berries growing wild.

I would never condone my children or anyone else breaking into private property to steal a cultivated crop but the story just doesn't read like that.

Haven't other people been blackberrying? We used to go up on the fells for whinberries too when I was a child.