Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Food & Drink => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 24 August, 2011, 06:13:08 pm
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1.1 kg of them this afternoon. They are unusually early this year, and there are probably another six weeks to come. I think the freezer will be well stuffed with blackberry and apple crumbles.
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Mmmmmm! Bramble jelly! :P :P
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Mmmm...just picked an ice-cream pack full of 'em. Lovely smelling pink stained fingers too :) Also managed to find some extra elderberries for Jane :)
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Thin pickings round here.
I think the warm spring buggered things up; on some sunny bushes I noticed some berries in July.
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Definitely early this year. We've been picking them by the bucketful from the derelict patch of land next door for almost a month. And there are still loads more...
Might have to try preserving them in one form or another. Maybe in the form of wine...
d.
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Raspberries are early too, or at least they are out at my FiL's garden in Poland. I'd be surprised if they were not also early here.
As for blackberries, somehow I can't be bothered to pick and take home, I just pick and eat! They've been feeding me along the Railway Path for a couple of weeks already. ;D
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First of the year!
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I've been picking them from the hedgerows to snack on while I take the dog for a walk (only going for the ones above leg-cocking height though). Need to remember to take a bucket one day - could fill it easily. With blackberries, I mean.
They're very early again. And plentiful. The apple, pear and plum trees are heaving as well, but it's been very windy so we've lost quite a few unripe fruit. We'll have very rich compost this year though.
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The wind down your way this weekend was the wind of disappointment.
What on earth happened to the oyster festival and the Whitstable grotters?
I was really looking forward to those....
Came back this afternoon.
Crestfallen....
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What on earth happened to the oyster festival and the Whitstable grotters?
Don't ask. The organisation has pretty much collapsed and the festival has become even more of a shambles than it used to be. As far as I know, the only festival events were on the Tankerton slopes this year rather than in the town.