As soon as the weather starts to get a bit less bitter, I start thinking about picnics. I love picnics so much, they are great. Where is your favourite place for a picnic in sheffield, what food do you like to take on picnics, and who would be with your on your 'dream picnic'?

Furthermore, lets have one at some point :)

(anyone know where the word picnic comes from?)

Originally posted by kathythebean
(anyone know where the word picnic comes from?)

Here's an excerpt from http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.htm which sounds eminently sensible:

'Picnic' began life as a 17th-century French word — it wasn't even close to being an American invention. A 1692 edition of Origines de la Langue Françoise de Ménage mentions 'piquenique' as being of recent origin marks the first appearance of the word in print. As for how the French came by this new term, it was likely invented by joining the common form of the verb 'piquer' (meaning "to pick" or "peck") and a nonsense rhyming syllable coined to fit the first half of this new palate-pleaser.

Cheers, Carrie

I highly recommend the botanical gardens for picnics!

greno wood. Nice little bit of green grass at the side of a little stream. it's so cosmy went past it yesturday & thought lovely place 2 have a picnic. I'd love to take either Frank Lampard, Lip out of shameless, Gary Lucy or Harley out of footballers wives.
(thts only half my list)
:D

Originally posted by noseyrosie
I highly recommend the botanical gardens for picnics!

Yes, I's great in there on a hot summer's afternoon.

Love it.

I've never been on a picnic, but as a teenager, I whiled away many a Tuesday afternoon with my friend Susan drinking cider in the Peace Gardens.

Oh, the nostalgia!

K x

Bole Hill is my fave place and the person with whom i'd like to have one wih, well that's pretty damn easy...My missus of course.

Wish they'd cut the grass up there once in a while though...

Don't get me wrong, long grass does come in handy in some places but not everywhere.... :D :D :D

Originally posted by BettyBoobs
Bole Hill is my fave place and the person with whom i'd like to have one wih, well that's pretty damn easy...My missus of course.

Wish they'd cut the grass up there once in a while though...

Don't get me wrong, long grass does come in handy in some places but not everywhere.... :D :D :D

Just flatten a patch first; you could do yourself a mischief! ;)

K x

I once arranged an impromptu picnic for two of us. It was just below Howden Dam beside the waters edge. Although usually packed with throngs of visitors, we had the place to ourselves. I packed chicken breasts, salads, various cheeses and grapes. Took along a finely chilled bottle of sparkling wine, and two glasses (none of this plastic stuff!). Rachmaninov's Concerto No.2 played on the car CD player, as we ate & drank, and watched, on the still water, the reflection of the moon. Oh yes - I overlooked to mention it was 2 a.m.!

my picnic dream would be on the top of a hill,with a fantastic view.On a hot summers day.sitting next to johny depp
lol

Originally posted by Kristian
I've never been on a picnic, but as a teenager, I whiled away many a Tuesday afternoon with my friend Susan drinking cider in the Peace Gardens.

Oh, the nostalgia!

K x

I spent about 5 years or so, all day everyday drinking there :)

Yes i a.........."was" one of the yobs :P
*gets coat*

Originally posted by redrobbo
I once arranged an impromptu picnic for two of us. It was just below Howden Dam beside the waters edge. Although usually packed with throngs of visitors, we had the place to ourselves. I packed chicken breasts, salads, various cheeses and grapes. Took along a finely chilled bottle of sparkling wine, and two glasses (none of this plastic stuff!). Rachmaninov's Concerto No.2 played on the car CD player, as we ate & drank, and watched, on the still water, the reflection of the moon. Oh yes - I overlooked to mention it was 2 a.m.!

You're an old romantic at heart redrobbo! :D Nice one! :thumbsup:

K x

Redmires!! Car park on right before left hand bend. Over stile in car park, short walk through trees and into grassy slopes.:thumbsup:

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And its quiet!!:clap:

bradfield is nice. there's ducks there too which are nice if you've kids.

If you have a car then go into Derbyshire; toads mouth near fox house; lovely stream for the kids. I think there is a bus there too.
Get the train to Edale and walk north to grindsbrook. Lovely stream for the kids. There a cafe and pub grub.
Catch the tram to halfway and get off at White Lane, walk to Ford via Ridgeway. And if you like walking, walk from Ford downstream to the church at Eckington then along the road to the Halfway tram terminus.

Originally posted by Kristian
I've never been on a picnic, but as a teenager, I whiled away many a Tuesday afternoon with my friend Susan drinking cider in the Peace Gardens.

Oh, the nostalgia!

K x oh kristian,the cider wasnt in a brown paperwas it bag:clap: :clap:

Originally posted by roughy101
oh kristian,the cider wasnt in a brown paperwas it bag:clap: :clap:

No Hon, I never got that bad! Still, it's worth considering in the future! :D

K x

I havent been for years, but I remember having great picnics at a place called Wyming brook (might not be right spelling!)
It is in Lodge moor near the resevoir, you can sit on huge boulders and look at one of the resevoirs below and get eaten alive by midges! enjoy

My back garden. Its sounds strange, I know, but it saves me driving and means I can have a drink. My back garden is very nice in the summer and only a stonesthrow away from the bar (me fridge).

Sorry, just a brief interjectory of humour.

Seriously, I agree, Wyming Brook is a fab spot for sun scorched picnics.

Additionally, Chatsworth House Gardens (about 30 mins away)are perfect!!! (and they have a stream that you can dip your feet into, if your into that sort of thing).

Originally posted by tots
bradfield is nice. there's ducks there too which are nice if you've kids.
Just found your post via a search. We happened to go to Lower Bradfield this weekend (having stuck a pin in the map) and it was really nice - people playing bowls, kids playing in the freshly cut grass, ice-cream vans and of course the water and ducks. We even saw two policeman pull over on official police business to buy an ice cream :P

Recommend it as a good place to go for a few hours - i.e. a picnic, although I imagine it can get pretty busy once summer starts properly (as opposed to this snow/sun thing we have now!).

Wyming brook.
WE went there as kids when it was bilberry picking time; my wife and still go there for billberries.
Make sure you wear insect pepellant (DEET).
If you continue along Redmires road you come to the reservoir and a long straight footpath uphill to stanage pole. The path is a Roman road which goes over stanage edge, a long stretch of cliffs where there are lots of climbers hanging on with their fingertips.

Norfolk Heritage Park. Great playground for the kids. Centre in the Park. Fantastic views of the city. Plenty of space and green grass for picnic, ball games, frisbee, etc.. Well kept park. Circular walk. Not far to travel - and within the city!

Originally posted by redrobbo
Norfolk Heritage Park. Great playground for the kids. Centre in the Park. Fantastic views of the city. Plenty of space and green grass for picnic, ball games, frisbee, etc.. Well kept park. Circular walk. Not far to travel - and within the city!

I love this park too. Pick your picnic spot in the middle of some open space though. Some of the wildlife doesn't make welcome dining partners :suspect:

Originally posted by kathythebean
As soon as the weather starts to get a bit less bitter, I start thinking about picnics. I love picnics so much, they are great.

Where is your favourite place for a picnic in sheffield, what food do you like to take on picnics, and who would be with your on your 'dream picnic'?




After buying a bag of muffins and filled a flask, a day in Castleton, Edale, Monsaldale, Stoney Middleton, Buxton or Matlock takes some beating.

That old primus stove will come in handy, togather with a battered old frying pan. Bacon butties just taste so much better in Derbyshire.

I know it's not Sheffield but most prefer to get away from it.

Prince William always comes with me but I refuse to sell my story.

Clumber Park is fantastic too.

I remember going on "picnics" as a kid.
We'd all be about 7 or 8 years old ; lived on Audrey Ropad at that time. Our mothers would prepare us a "picnic".
It would usually be a paper bag with cocoa powder mixed with sugar and a bottle of water !
You would wet your finger and dip it into the cocoa-sugar mixture and it would last for ages ------or until the bag fell apart.
We would toddle down Richmond Road , about 5 or 6 of us , and down a sort of gennel into Richmond Park. No parents ! If we hadn't got much time ,instead of the park , we used to go on the fields that were there , then, between Lowburn Road and Woodhouse Road. All this was in 1948 , when food was still very much rationed.
Is Richmond Park still going strong , by the way ?