sounds much like my experiences of bean / pea picking
with added green creepy crawlies. Strawberry picking was even worse, I spent an hour cyling to the farm and two hours picking strawbs before I realised how little money I was making and went home without bothering to pick it up.
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Mon 10 Nov 2003, 14:53,
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the problem
with bulbs was that they were all buried - you really had to dig into the solid earth with your hands to get them out.
"I used to dream of picking strawberries"
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Mon 10 Nov 2003, 14:56,
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"I used to dream of picking strawberries"