If you want to seriously upgrade your outdoor gatherings, though, you'll want to get a blanket specifically designed for it.

You made a stacked sandwich, picked out the ripest berries for a fruit bowl and whipped up a big batch of lemonade — the last step for readying for your picnic is packing everything up.

(or should that be vol-au-vents!) You’ve gone and got yourself a picnic. But that tradition of eating a selection of snacks while plonked on a blanket in a park or on a beach - and occasionally ...