Disclaimer: This place has nothing to do with Peter Piper.
With Halloween coming up, the-toddler-gorilla old enough to get involved and being allowed to leave our homes and enjoy it, we decided to take the little ape Pumpkin Picking. We looked at a few different options and decided to go to a place that was free to get in and had a park and café.
Upon arrival, the-mrs-gorilla tried to be clever parking the car, driving through a space to get out the other side. Quite sensible you might think, apart from the muddy field and big slope (that had been cordoned off from the other direction) causing the wheels to spin and start to dig us in. Whilst she happily tried to force the car up the slope, I suggested that she should reverse (slide) back down to the original space in case somebody parked behind us and we couldn't get out.
Lo and behold, some other fool had done the same thing, couldn't get their car up the slope and had to sit and wait until whoever had parked behind them came back and allowed their slide down the slope to continue 🙄
As much as I'm sure you're enjoying my little car park story, this is supposed to be about pumpkins so this is what we found...
👇 A couple of these things either side of the entrance to make it look like they'd made an effort
👇 A few of these things scattered about to add to the atmosphere
👇 And an attempt to scatter a few around a field for you to choose from
It wasn't quite what I'd hoped for from a pumpkin picking experience but the-toddler seemed to enjoy himself and because there was a nice big slope on the hill, the-toddler played a fun game of rolling some to the bottom.
The pumpkin in the bottom right corner is the one we bought and will be carving today (maybe) 🔪
The highlight (perhaps), was when the-mrs-gorilla asked:
Do you think those pumpkins grew there?
🙄 My response of "Yes, how else would they have gotten there?" amused those within ear shot who had just watched the-toddler-gorilla role multiple pumpkins down the hill. (Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, which makes me witty.)
Having lugged our lovely, fresh pumpkin up the hill to discover that it didn't fit through the small hole (£3), nor the medium hole (£5) and was obviously a large pumpkin (£7), I was accused of being a miserable git for pointing out that we could've bought a pumpkin from the supermarket for 85p. Was it worth the extra £6.15 to watch the-toddler-gorilla roll a few pumpkins down a hill? Maybe.
On our way out, as we passed the crates of Pumpkins from "Pumpkins R Us", I wondered if our Pumpkin would be rotten by the time Halloween was upon us.
All photos are my own taken with my iPhone 5s
I've seen (and commented on) a few pumpkin posts already this year - is yours ready for the weekend? Are you expecting many trick-or-treaters to be knocking at your door? Will you be popping a few of these bad boys in with the jelly beans? Or will you be closing those curtains, turning the lights off and pretending you're not home?