Friday 4 January 2008

Blackberries

MrM would like to apologise for his cryptic comment.
He suffers from Smartypants Syndrome
and sometimes it gets out of control.

Here is the information you need:

In the country there is a legend
that the Devil spits on the blackberries
on the last day of September
and so you must not pick them in October.

But of course...
it was a DIFFERENT SORT of
BlackBerry
that he was playing with.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

How easy it is to misunderstand words when there is more than one meaning!!

Florence Knapp (Flossie Teacakes) said...

Oh it's making my head hurt...it's not October though...so Mr M could have eaten the blackberries while using his Blackberry, no?

Mr M's words have out-foxed me...but I'm so pleased to see that you, Alice, can be relied upon to have a lovely photo handy to illustrate a point(even if one of your readers is too brain-addled to join all the dots up!)!

x

Ali said...

Someone spat in my jam ingredients? Suddenly, my toast seems less appealing...

Anonymous said...

On every single blackberry?!?

The last day of September must be a loooong day on the devil's calendar...

Mary said...

I love that legend

But do not love the Blackberry (aka crackberry or cracko) - the bane of my existence.

Unknown said...

Ohhhh. I read in a novel that in Cornwall, legend has it that Cornish witches do a really-not-nice watery thing on them, and that's why you can't eat blackberries after September. Devil's spit sounds pretty good compared to that.

Anonymous said...

gms - no names, no pack drill is my advice ;-)