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7:20 pm
Supreme Being
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Sun 30-Jan-11
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Don't know whether anyone else has seen it, but I stumbled across this website today: http://wildthymebank.wordpress.com/
Loads of foraging recipes on it, some quite, erm, interesting (garlic vodka? 
).
We went to a place called Uphill today, been there a few times, it's just south of Weston super Mare and is entirely different in character - small, pretty village, very quiet, nice beach (although in high season car parking there costs £5.00!!! Rip off! 
). At the other end of the beach road is a free car park adjacent to a nature reserve, boatyard, estuary, cafe - lots of lovely walks. We noticed on our walk an absolute forest of blackberry bushes, as far as the eye could see, along with a few sloes......the only trouble being, most of this wonderful bounty is inaccessible, being behind ditches or fences or in boggy ground, or simply behind masses of spiky brambly stuff 
. And why is it that the berries or sloes that are the biggest, ripest and gorgeously juicy looking are up so high you couldn't reach them without a ladder? 
learning to love veg…..except celery :-O
8:26 pm
I like the website a lot; blackberry ketchup sounds good.. another addition to my ketchup series!
11:53 pm
Supreme Being
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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ooh - another one to add to my readin list in winter I think
5:17 pm
3rd Grader
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Mon 7-Feb-11
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Look forward to having a proper browse through here.
Thanks for the link. 
7:19 pm
Supreme Being
Mon 21-Sep-09
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My foraging for mushrooms yesterday went awry, the only likely looking candidates went blue when cut " not good. 
and I got lots of mozzie bites into the bargain. 
5:27 pm
Expert
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Tue 9-Nov-10
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Shut up, I'm counting
5:28 pm
Expert
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Tue 9-Nov-10
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OK so I did know how to make them come up as pictures, I just didn't know that was what I was doing!
Shut up, I'm counting
6:08 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Clever clogs! 
Why is it that when Janet and I post pictures, they get lots of gobbledegook around them and you did it perfectly?
I'll try that again!
9:02 pm
Supreme Being
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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well said TA, well Gottknit..I'm waiting
Lovely pics though
9:41 pm
Supreme Being
Thu 24-Sep-09
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Great pictures Jean. What fabulous bounty you have found.
Old teachers never die, they just lose their class
10:44 am
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You have set me a problem now - am going to have to post a random picture here to see if I can, and then tell you how it happened.
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Ok, what I did was find the picture on my Flickr account and click the share button. I copied the address, and then when I came back to here, clicked on the "insert image" button, and pasted the address into the appropriate box. Last ime I got a line of text, which turned into pictures when I saved the post, but this time, I have got a little box with a bit of torn paper. So now I will save this post, and see what happens. Want an icon of crossed fingers.
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