Hello I'm Sue.
I am getting into the swing of preserving and baking from my (very small) cottage garden and the hedgerows surrounding the fields around my house. I live on the edge of the High Peak, and am lucky to have a farmer with lots of fruit trees and secret bramble patches as a neighbour, not to mention what seems like a million bilberry bushes on the moor above my house. Every time I searched on Google for a recipe (Rosehip tea, crapapple jelly, elderberry jam...) I found myself on this site - it is now my first port of call. Marvellous!
Hi sue
its a bit like the hotel california on this forum
you can come in but you can never leave (not that many of us want to )
as danast said its adictive ,just dont go on the sunlounger without a safetyline and a davey lamp ,there are some seriously wierd folk on there ,not me you understand (i was expelled from therapy so i came here ),
and dont go into recipes you will end up as big as me
and dont go into the animal bit they are all too cute
and if you do the foridging thing you wont have time to catch up
and beware of the ,,,,,,,,,nutters in the four ,,,,,,,,,,,word stories they'r nutters ,,,,,,,or as close as ,,,,,,you should sefely get .......to real life nutters
do let us know what you find ,and what you make from it we are nosey!! MOS xx
sit down with a cupa and the urge will subside
Hi Sue I didn't live too far away from your neck of the woods in a little place called Barlow, just north of Chesterfield. Moved a bit since then and it is now coming up for 8 years
, where did all that time go, it only seems like yesterday when I was packing to leave Barlow
MOS said:
Hi sue
its a bit like the hotel california on this forum
Hi Sue and welcome......I'd liken it more to the Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues (languages) and my only advice is to look out for the 'double entry' book keeping applied by certain members of the forum and those with short names or biblical tagging are exceptionally good at 'turning things round' so that they nip you in the 'derriere' when you least expect it.
Great fun though...and 'still' working....
EP...BG
Who lives long sees much : The diary of my life in Bulgaria
croeso.
Don't pay too much attention to the neigh sayers (MOS and ep this means you, stop trying to scare the noob). we're all perfectly lovely. And we look forward to hearing more from you.
I envy your endless stock of bilberries, I can't find them anywhere near me.
Intolerance will not be tolerated.
Oh rats you just reminded me I was going to buy some red bilberries at the market today, wonder if they still have some Bye!
Thank you all for such a warm welcome! You all seem so much fun
Yes the bilberries are a bonus where I live, although I didn't think that last year when I startled a wood pigeon who had been stuffing its beak with them all day. Let's just say my outfit had a strange purple tie dyed effect for the rest of the day...
Am off to scrump some apples from a neighbours field now! (Will watch out for dangerously full looking birds whilst I am there).
Sue
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