A Week of Picnic's!

So this is the end of 'A Week of Picnic' we have defiantley had a lot of fun sharing our favourite picnic things and picnic memories, and are extra glad about all of the new lovely blogs we have found. Thanks everyone for joining in and thanks to pip to for letting us share her Blog!!

Meaghan and Claire

A Week of Picnic's...dresses!

Here a just a few of our favourite picnic dresses, they are good because of their floral print and their ability to look good against green grass.

A week of Picnic...sweet picnic slice!

Like the savoury picnic slice, we featured on Mikes lovely blog, hedgehog has been a family favourite for many years, Mum made it for us when we were younger but still makes it for us occassionally today. Its pretty simple and requires no baking which is good sometimes. You can definately make this one in advance, so its ready whenever the picnic urge hits!

Picnic Hedgehog

¾ cup or 180ml of sweetened condensed milk

60g of butter

125g dark eating chocolate, chopped coarsely

150g plain sweet biscuits

And an amount of dried fruit or nuts that you find most suitable (I like walnuts but anthing that takes your fancy is fine)Line a slice pan with some baking paper

Combine the condensed milk and butter in a saucepan; stir over low heat until the butter has melted and the mix is nice and smooth, remove from the heat and then add the chocolate and stir again until smooth.

Break the biscuits into small pieces in a bowl, add chocolate mix and nuts of choice and stir until all the biscuits are coated.

Spread mixture into the pan and cover, refrigerate for about 4 hours or until slice is firm.

After this time I like to further decorate the slice with some chocolate icing and hundred and thousands.

Then simply cut into slices, transport into some Tupperware and enjoy at your next picnic!!

Where it all Began!

I think our love of picnic's developed with the reading of Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree. Bessie, Jo and Fanny got up to the most amazing adventures all thanks to a picnic, encouraging us to picnic as much as we could and climb as many trees as possible, while tree climbing has since subsided, i'm not sure picnic's ever will.

Handy picnic Tools!

Picnic gadgets, really are the best, they allow optimal use with limited space. When I first found these in a picnic set found in an op-shop I was overwhelmed, one person must have been very clever to design such handy things. More picnic things over at lovely Mikes.