I fear we diverge on our ideas of "fun" Jo. I expect you bike there and back too!
Picked strawberries for three weeks out of school. For jam, not bad since you just pull them off the stalk. For punnets much harder because you have to leave the stalks in. Either way, very hard on the back, knees and arse. I decided to switch to the much easier job of working in a warehouse for KCC. They said the vacancy was filled, but if I cared to work with kids, they had a position in an assessment centre. And so I became a social worker. See young 'uns, seize the moment, even fruit picking is a step on the ladder -at least it is until fruit pickers are replaced by pre-programmed Chinese killer robots.