>>Too true. Especially when I switch on my Vodafone and the message "How are you?" appears. It's not in the least interested in how I slipped on the hill, on wet chalk, and, being surrounded by nettles, blackberry bushes
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>Ahh... your bushes give blackberries... people are spending huge sums of money on both here, and get just this addiction, no joy.

They're everywhere. Every trip up the hill takes twice as long with my daughter as we feast on them. Big and ripe and sweet now. Just had a week's camping in The New Forest (loose ponies and cattle everywhere, in a mixture of moorland and woodland, planted by William the Conqueror, for his private hunting). The blackberries there were much less advanced than here.