What better than a picnic on a May bank holiday weekend?! Well, maybe if the weather improved... I think I shall have to wait a bit longer to have a lovely picnic in the sunshine, but yesterday I bought the most perfect picnic box, at Dagfield's Crafts & Antiques in Cheshire. Yes, picnic baskets do have that 'classic' picnic feel about them, but these picnic boxes by Brexton are so retro that I couldn't resist them! Plus because they're a box, no nasty creepy crawlies can climb inside your picnic either. (I remember once a wasp climbed into my sister's can on a childhood picnic and then she drank from the can not knowing and much squealing commenced!). I suppose creepy crawlies are all a part of the picnic experience though, along with soggy sandwiches and being unable to find the perfect spot to put your blanket on (too high! too steep! too wet!).
This is the second of my picnic boxes, as you can see. I've already got a nice blue one, although that came empty without any of the plates or cutlery, so I mostly just use it for storage. This new one though shall most definitely get used!
On our family picnics, we would ALWAYS have cheese and tomato sandwiches and the tomato would make the bread go soggy, but in a strangely nice way. Then when we got home, if there were ever any leftover sandwiches, my Nana would soak them in egg and fry them. The best were fried ham butties! Oh and Scotch Eggs are also a picnic must. What's your favourite picnic food? Hope you all have had a lovely weekend and are enjoying the bank holiday if you're off work! Mine sadly won't be spent picnicking but instead doing Uni work - full steam ahead now!
This is so adorable! Where did you find this beauty?!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite picnic food is hummous and crusty bread and cakes for desert with pink lemonade to drink! x
I just added it to the post, it's from a place called Dagfield's Crafts & Antiques in Cheshire, it's a little treasure trove of antiques & bric a brac.
ReplyDeletelovely suitcases!
ReplyDeletei want a picnic box now! I didn't know they existed five minutes ago and now I'm quite desperate for one. So lovely.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite picnic food is guacamole and crunchy vegetables to dip in it. I could eat it all day long.
I haven't gone for a picnic for a long time!
ReplyDeleteanyway, I adore your boxes!!
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yum cheese and tomato!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of classic British picnics, but with beautiful picnic boxes like those, I'd never take them anywhere!
ReplyDeleteI think my favourite picnic food is cold pasta - eaten using a tacky lime green plastic fork!
They are great.
ReplyDeleteI love old fashioned picnic boxes, yours are lovely! And I especially like how you use proper china instead of silly old plastic things.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what my favourite picnic food would be, but I always remember my mum's potato salad as a kid.
wow your tea sets are adorable!! i definitely wanna go on a picnic now. =)
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Picnics are the ultimate... there are no words to categorise them. They are just ultimate. Ultra ultimate. Take any day, a nice sunny day, where you're stuck for something to do & having a picnic is a viable option. Got a date? Picnic! Want to hang out with friends? Picnic! Want to read a book in the sun? Picnic! They're just one of my favourite things, haha. Not to mention I'm a total foodie which probably doesn't help! I love miniature anything so little cupcakes or eclairs, mmm. & a large array of sandwiches, all cut into the tiniest triangles with no crusts on. That's picnic food!
ReplyDeleteis that an antique? haha i am in love with it.
ReplyDeleteoh wow! they're so nice!
ReplyDeleteOh my! I want to buy a picnic box too!
ReplyDeleteHope you are be able to do your picnic sometime soon! :)
Pretty! I'm planning a big post exam picnic with some of my best girlfriends this summer... so excited!!!
ReplyDeletelooks like we were thinking along the same lines re picnics! Fortunately the weather warmed up for us in New York. :)
ReplyDeleteOh if only the weather were warm enough today!
ReplyDeleteHow utterly delightful! I can imagine you, nibbling cucumber sandwiches and glugging Pimms from a flask, laid out on a picnic blanket with this darling set. I just love it!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite picnic food would be the aforementioned cucumber sandwiches and a flask of Pimms along with hummus and carrot sticks and maybe a chocolate eclair for dessert. :)
i love these! i really started getting into picnics last year & hope we have some good weather this year to go on more of them. but i usually just call at m&s on the way. having this picnic kit would definitely make me more organised!
ReplyDeleteThat's gorgeous! I was just saying the other day that I really want a picnic hamper, I was looking at one today at a car boot in fact! But yours is a million times prettier.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite picnic food is probably crusty bread and butter, and dip! Oh and Pimms!! We went on a fantastic one in Cambridge a couple of years ago, we went to Sainsburys first and bought loads of nice nibbles, and then we went punting!!
i love your picnic boxes -- and picnics! beautiful images.
ReplyDeleteAw, that's just a perfectly beautiful picnic set. Praying for a decent summer in Scotland for lazy picnic days in the countryside. xx
ReplyDeleteOh it's wonderful! I must check out that shop at some point.
ReplyDeletePicnics must must must involve chicken paste and tomato sandwiches and crisps. Mmmmm.
You were right about where I work by the way :)
Oh, my! I wish I had a picnic box like yours! It's lovely!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your sweet comment on the pinwheels. I too am just adoring picnics these days- Your boxes are so lovely & inspiring to me.
ReplyDeleteHappy May :) There's nothing lovelier than a weekend picnic and those first images make we want to picnic lunch tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteooh, these picnic boxes make me feel so "retro touched", they are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely post! Your picnic hampers are adorable :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a °chic picnic°... typical british may be...???? and I check the address for the while i'll come just 1h far from here, just on the other side of the Channel.... see you!!
ReplyDeleteOh my god! i have one of these! Got it in a charity shop!
ReplyDeletethese are so cute !
ReplyDeletemakes me want to picnic this weekend !!!