
On the basis that summer must be only just around the corner Belvoir is offering you the chance to win one of their picnic hampers today. In case you don't know, Belvoir makes the most delicious cordials, presses and fruit crushes using 100% natural ingredients (including flowers and fruit from the farm) and all mixed with water from the local spring. Mary Manners began making cordials in her kitchen in the 1970s, infusing elderflowers and pressing the fruit grown on the family farm and the business has gone from strength to strength ever since.
Anyway, if you fancy having a luxury picnic courtesy of Belvoir all you have to do is leave me a quick comment between now and next Wednesday telling me where you'd like to have the picnic. I'll pick one winner at random (I won't judge your choice of venue, honest!) and then it'll be over to you.
Oh, and the great British weather!

This competition is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered, congratulations to the winner Amanda Oakley and better luck next time to the everyone else. If you'd like to support my next book The Glorious Dead - now crowdfudning with Booker-nominated publisher Unbound - then click here for more details: https://unbound.com/books/the-glorious-dead
I tend to keep things simple – we've got a large and gorgeous local park (Victoria Park in Bath) so I'd head down there with a picnic, and Harry could run around the playground afterwards.
ReplyDeleteWe love going to a secret garden near us (which has slides and a stream for paddling and lots of lawn!) It also has fruit you can buy when they're ripe!
ReplyDeleteBolsover Castle would be nice.
ReplyDeleteOh Id love to have a picnic on the lawn at Agatha Christies house in Devon. Obviously Id like sunny weather too. But I think it would be gorgeous to have the huge house behind you on a sweeping lawn with the sea in front of you :D
ReplyDeleteSomewhere with a nice park for the kids to play at and a nice view!
ReplyDelete@ashlallan
Anywhere in the Gower, Swansea. It's my favourite place in Britain :)
ReplyDeleteOooh, in my mum's lovely back garden. We're coming over in June (so you can send it to me at her house!) The smell of an English garden on a summer evening is almost bringing me to tears as I write. I can't wait! Family gatherings, hours and hours of daylight, my kids spending precious time with the only cousins they have.....
ReplyDeleteAaah!
On the Lincolnshire Wolds.
ReplyDeleteI love to take the kids and dog into the countryside for a picnic - we often go to Slayley in Northumberand as there are some lovely quiet spots by the river. We live by the sea but don't tend to picnic on the beach - there is nothing more awful than sandy sandwiches! YUK!
ReplyDeleteI would go to a local (ruined) castle called Sandal Castle. Me and the kids love it there!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great giveaway
On A Lovely Sandy Beach xxx
ReplyDeleteon Bodmin Moor, Cornwall on a sunny day
ReplyDeleteon the sand dunes where i live used to go when i was a kid
ReplyDeleteI like to have a picnic in Battersea Park :)
ReplyDeletePennard beach on the Gower Peninsula
ReplyDeleteOn the beaches at Zakynthos whilst
ReplyDeletewatching the baby turtles hatch
at our local park, tilgate!
ReplyDeleteon top of the white cliffs of Dover - watching the ferries sailing in and out of Dover docks - yes sad I know!!
ReplyDeleteI love a picnic on Formby Beach
ReplyDeleteIn Trenant Woods near Looe with the dogs
ReplyDeleteIn the Wyre Forest - just up the road from our house.
ReplyDeleteI'd have the picnic in my local park and feed the ducks at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThe garden with our 4 year old daughter and her dolls and teddies!
ReplyDeleteAppletreewick in Yorkshire Dales, beside the river. Perfect on a summer day
ReplyDeleteon the grounds of Arundel castle is amazing!
ReplyDeletethe beach just by Bamburgh Castle
ReplyDeletewould love to have it at Virginia Waters, what beautiful scenery over the lake and so big so you dont feel overcrowded
ReplyDeleteAnywhere where there is guaranteed sunshine. Caribbean springs to mind
ReplyDeleteSomewhere nice in the Cotswolds :)
ReplyDeleteBolton Abbey is my favourite place for a picnic and I'd share it with my 4 dogs
ReplyDeleteBuxton Park, it is lovely up there in the summer for a picnic with the kids
ReplyDeleteIlkley Moor, love it there.
ReplyDeleteRendlesham Forest with hubby and the dogs and some sunshine
ReplyDeleteI like to picnic in the local park, where the kids can feed the ducks as well
ReplyDeleteIn Australia with my nephews.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have a picnic at the zoo.
ReplyDeleteKinnoull Hill Woodland Park
ReplyDeleteIn London's Hyde Park after a day of sightseeing with the kids!
ReplyDeleteBeecraigs Country Park, West Lothain
ReplyDeleteWarwick Castle
ReplyDeleteBetws-y-Coed, Snowdonia
ReplyDeleteA beautiful Northumbrian beach.
ReplyDeleteSyon park
ReplyDeleteHyde Park
ReplyDeleteIn the beautiful grounds of Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, beside the river Bollin
ReplyDeleteI would love to take the kids to Vrynwy Lake to have a picnic
ReplyDeleteWe love spending the day at Dedham in Essex. The scenery is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThe bathing beauties weekend at Mablethorpe
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have a picnic in Newstead Abbey or Sherwood Forest or Thieves Wood! :) Or maybe even at Gunthorpe bridge!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite picnic spot is Tarn Hows in the Lake District
ReplyDeletein Castle Park, Colchester
ReplyDeleteWindsor great park
ReplyDeleteHampstead Heath
ReplyDeleteMidsummer common - Cambridge
ReplyDeletekingsbury water park
ReplyDeleteChatsworth House Gardens
ReplyDeleteLoch Lomond
ReplyDeleteA nice picnic by the seaside is lovely, let's hope we get the weather for it!
ReplyDeleteAt Cannop ponds in the Forest of Dean- the kids can feed the ducks!
ReplyDeleteon the beach :-)
ReplyDeleteIn Hamsterley forest under the huge trees, its so quiet and peaceful.
ReplyDeleteAt the park (hopefully in the sun!). :-)
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have a picnic on the beach.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have a picnic at a little hideaway bay, castlehaven on the Isle of Wight, It is so peaceful.
ReplyDeleteI would have a picnic at "The Yorkshire Sculpture Park" with my 3 grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteI'd have it at a park near my house - it has a lovely lake to walk by and then some rose gardens at the end with benches.
ReplyDeleteI'd take it round to my Mum's house and we'd picnic in her back garden!!
ReplyDeletewe'd take it with us on our trip to thomas land :-)
ReplyDeleteI'd take it out to the beach during the lovely, long summer hols - can't wait!
ReplyDeleteon the moon, different is always good
ReplyDeleteI'd love to spend more time enjoying our garden
ReplyDeleteAt the top of Arthur's seat in Edinburgh, although it may be rather windy!
ReplyDeleteMy back Garden is great
ReplyDeleteMy local park
ReplyDeleteAt Leeds Castle - "The loveliest castle in the world"
ReplyDeletein the New Forest surrounded by ponies - love it down there
ReplyDeleteAt Bolton Abbey - I have so many happy childhood memories of picnics there
ReplyDeleteon a beach :)
ReplyDeleteOn Southsea beach
ReplyDeleteIsle of wight
ReplyDeleteI love picnics - my favourite place would be The River Dee at Chester
ReplyDeleteSouthport beach
ReplyDeleteNolita's McNally Jackson Books has a new stickers robot greeting card came.
ReplyDeletemy blog - design stickers
My son lives near beautiful Loch Lomond...we go there by the lochside often to picnic..Kris is 5 and loves it
ReplyDeleteChatsworth House x
ReplyDeleteWhiterocks beach, Portrush. The best beach in N Ireland!
ReplyDeleteOn Weymouth beach
ReplyDeleteI'd go up to the top of Ilkley Moor for our family picnic - absolutely stunning views there and some great rocks to climb. Otely Chevin would be choice b - slightly quieter too x
ReplyDeleteIn the new forest
ReplyDeleteMalham - the views are spectacular and look like a scene from Lord of the Rings.
ReplyDeleteBrimham Rocks, a beautiful place near where I live x
ReplyDeleteWe love having picnics in castle grounds
ReplyDeletedown by the mere where i live.
ReplyDeleteDown by the local river
ReplyDeleteIn the new forest
ReplyDeleteGARDEN :]
ReplyDeleteAnywhere with guaranteed sunshine!! :) the lake district would be my choice otherwise
ReplyDeleteSherwood Pines Forest Park is a nice spot for a picnic and a family bike ride, providing the picnic doesn't contain to many cakes :-) x
ReplyDeleteGreenwich Park overlooking the city skyline
ReplyDeletethe beach! But could we have some sun first please! :)
ReplyDeleteOn the South Downs somewhere, visiting there next week, so fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteI'm lucky that I live between The Quantocks and Exmoor both are stunning but I would take the family to Exmoor for a picnic.
ReplyDeleteWhite Coppice, not been for years. You drive up through Rivington, park next to the cricket pitch, it even has a Pavillion and a few cottages, then climb up the hillside past the stream and Bobs your uncle... ideal picnic spot. Children can go rock hopping after lunch :0)
ReplyDeleteWe have Heaton Park in Manchester. Some lovely spots. I'll be returning up north soon and remember that place from childhood, so would be lovely to be able to have a picnic by way of a catchup with the fam!
ReplyDeleteI love the Lake District, this is a perfect place for a picnic
ReplyDeleteHigh Force - Teesdale
ReplyDeleteQuite frankly anywhere!
ReplyDeleteJesmond Dene in Newcastle :)
ReplyDeleteI would love a picnic in the grounds of Packwood House a gorgeous National Trust house local to me
ReplyDeleteCarsington Water Derbyshire
ReplyDeleteI'd like to go to Bolton Abbey!
ReplyDeleteI would have it in our back garden nice and safe for the kiddies to run around :)
ReplyDeleteBlenheim Palace
ReplyDeleteAlexandra Palace :)
ReplyDeleteHyde Park
ReplyDeleteI'd picnic in my back garden - it's lovely now :)
ReplyDeleteLotherton Hall, near Leeds.
ReplyDeleteLossiemouth beach :) x
ReplyDeleteBrighstone Forest on the Isle of Wight
ReplyDeleteHoly Island
ReplyDeleteRhossili Bay in the Gower. I love it down there.
ReplyDeleteSt Michaels Mount in Cornwall
ReplyDeleteIn our back garden as that means it will no longer be a forest of weeds and thistles but my husband will have actually finished the landscaping job he started last march!
ReplyDeleteEasdale Tarn in Cumbria
ReplyDeleteOban in Scotalnd beside the sea
ReplyDeleteI would just love to have a picnic inside the grounds of Lincoln Castle, I love the history x
ReplyDeleteIn my mum's garden - we don't see her enough.
ReplyDeleteAt my local country park.
ReplyDeleteI think we'd go to castle howard, they have some lovely grounds and it's close by! :) x Thank you!
ReplyDeleteHampstead Heath
ReplyDeleteThe river bank in our village.
ReplyDeleteThe water is shallow for the children, not too far to walk, and it's very beautiful :)
Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall is a lovely place, especially down by the Museum where there's a lovely little replica Roman temple and replica Roman statues. Loads of little birds come to join in your picnic, too and I'd love to picnic here!
ReplyDeleteWe love The Riverside country park in Rainham Kent, So peaceful
ReplyDeleteColley Hill near Reigate, stunning views.
ReplyDeleteIn St James Park overlooking the lake and feed the ducks as well,perfect summer afternoon :-)
ReplyDeleteby the beach at Seaham, lovely views over the coast
ReplyDeleteTatton Park
ReplyDeleteBurton Dassett Hills
ReplyDeleteIdeally it'd be on a nice sandy beach anywhere, with warm sunshine. Would be nice and relaxing.
ReplyDeleteRegents park
ReplyDeleteWatermead Park overlooking the lake, in Leicester
ReplyDeleteIn the new forest
ReplyDeletebehind our house is a big beck, take kids over the bridge (tell them its billy goats gruff) then there is a big quarry and park, we spend all our time there in summer x
ReplyDeletesissinghurst gardens
ReplyDeleteAt the zoo!
ReplyDeleteAs I am writing this the weather is gorgeous and I would love to be at the beach right now having a picnic
ReplyDeleteI think Longleat, we went for a picnic on my Birthday in July and it was great :)
ReplyDeleteI would like to have a picnic with my partner and dog in Alexandra Park which over looks Bath.
ReplyDeleteOn top of a mountain!! Hopefully everything wouldn't blow away :-)
ReplyDeleteIdeally a secluded Spanish beach
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Amanda - you're the winner! Email me your contact details and I'll make sure the picnic hamper gets to you. Can't guarantee the weather, though!
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