>>>>>>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
>>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>
>>>Interesting about the blackberries. Here we normally wouldn't expect anything worth picking until the end of this month (except me - I love them when they are still red and extra tart).
>>
>>Seems the same where we were.
>>
>>>What we *are* getting now in whinberries (for the U.S. audience a bit like miniature blueberries) - high on the hills,labor intensive but delicious!
>>>
>>>P.S. Good luck with the job application!
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>I'd like to try and grow blueberries (my fave fruit) but we have chalky soil and hard water here. Would cost too much to make beds of erecacious (spelling ???) and I wouldn't be able to use tap water - only collected rain.
>>
>>BTW, I've never heard of whinberries.
>
>Local name for VICCINIUM MYRTILLUS. Same name used up North as well.
We have something similar here in MT. Same genus, different species
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/html/articles/2004/Huckleberries.htmBet you don't have to wrestle with grizzly bears to pick yours!
