We've waited long enough. Now actual warmth and sun and the heather in bloom. We may as well enjoy it having tolerated its boring brown dominance over many months. And people will be out as well throughout the weekend over the Peak District
My public spirited campaign to remove bracken from the path edges allowing people to see and collect the bilberries has worked a bit too well: this morning, keen to harvest enough to make a pie, I find that people have been there before me. Well, that's what I intended after all. And there should be more than enough for all. Yet at such times the pressure builds up. Not only people increasingly well equipped, but wood pigeons, mistle thrushes, blackbirds. purple tongued labradors and now the 'animal who loves bilberries', SWT's alien cattle are all after a share. No serious problem yet. This year has been a bumper one and our freezer is packed full.
We've waited long enough. Now actual warmth and sun and the heather in bloom. We may as well enjoy it having tolerated its boring brown dominance over many months. And people will be out as well throughout the weekend over the Peak District
My public spirited campaign to remove bracken from the path edges allowing people to see and collect the bilberries has worked a bit too well: this morning, keen to harvest enough to make a pie, I find that people have been there before me. Well, that's what I intended after all. And there should be more than enough for all. Yet at such times the pressure builds up. Not only people increasingly well equipped, but wood pigeons, mistle thrushes, blackbirds. purple tongued labradors and now the 'animal who loves bilberries', SWT's alien cattle are all after a share. No serious problem yet. This year has been a bumper one and our freezer is packed full.
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