Advantages: One of natures free fruits Disadvantages: none
Roll up, roll up, food for free!
That statement has a certain ring attached to it doesn't it?
I know that Richard Mabey has written a very much talked about book on the subject of what nature can offer us in terms of nourishment. Sadly as yet I haven't read it, in fact I have just been very tempted to order a used copy from Amazon at just a little over £6.
I have to admit to being a fan of Ray Mears and although I hold my hands up to only being a fan I love to watch Ray pounding his berries and making weird and wonderful concoctions using gatherings from the hedgerows.
Blackberry picking just has to take most of us back to our childhood and sunny afternoons when we were sent off with a tattered brown paper bag to gather some blackberries to make either jam, jelly or an apple and blackberry pie.
Off we went to scour the perimeter ...
Sarahjh1 28.03.2009
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This is a good quality CD that offers good value for money in the short term. Although as with most music you might get fed up with it after a while. The value will deteriorate over time and should be anle to get a cheaper version next year. It incorporates most of the latest features and technology that is currently available on the market.
All Mod Cons was to be followed by the albums Setting Sons (1978), Sound Affects (1979) and The Gift (1982).
Additional Album Notes
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The Jam: Paul Weller (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, harmonica)
Bruce Foxton (vocals, bass)
Rick Buckler (drums, percussion).
Producers: Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Chris Parry.
Price
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All Mod Cons [Original recording remastered] is available at Amazon.com for £5:97 ...
Advantages: great fruits and good for wildlife too Disadvantages: maggots
Blackberry. Rubus fructicosus, Bramble
The Blackberry season has now just finished. Fruit gathered in, jam’s, pies and preserves made. Ok I only made a few pies this year.
I have strong memories of blackberry picking in my childhood during the late 50’s and early sixties.
I lived in a small village in Cambridgeshire and in late August early September the family mother father sister aunt uncle cousins would go on a blackberry picking picnic. We would walk across the village common to the best field with a bramble hedgerow. We took baskets bowls bags anything to collect the blackberries.
We selected a grassy spot to picnic avoiding the cow pats. Then Mother aunt father and uncles set to picking immediately us children too we picked and picked well the adults did I would pick a while choosing the biggest juiciest ...
mumsymary 02.11.2004
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