Thursday, 1 October 2026

Preparation

 I've got another builders bag and a smaller bagful of laurel prunings ready to go to the cowp...booked for tomorrow..no slots today.

Apple foraging done near the beach on the rough ground between the beach and the coastal path..there are a few trees there, a combination of bird sown and someone throwing an apple core!

A little further West is where I usually pick elderberries..nothing! I asked a friend and apparently they were finished nearly a month ago !  I suppose the difference between there and home...where I've only just finished picking mine...is about 400 feet higher above sea level ..and ten more miles inland.

Then "food foraging" in asda...what they call their Whoopsies....400g Red Leicester at 90p?...I'll have two!!...packs of falafel at just over £1...four of them...and plenty left for others!! and a (full price) proper sourdough granary multiseed boule...

and home again...

No reading tonight...I am working through "A brief history of France" An introduction to the people history & culture by Cecil Jenkins.

It is well written...and fascinating.