I am a forager!

[Sandperson]

I made blackberry jam today from blackberries picked on Homestall road. It was a very satisfying process. Greengages next I think.

[bigbadwolf]

You may be a forager or even a scavenger but at least you're resourceful.

Well done.

[Andystar]

Awesome, scavenged food rocks!!

[daizie]

A do-as-you-likey more like . Hope you got the maggots out first, blackberries are full of them .

[Sandperson]

Oh daizie you should be more positive. I didn't see a single maggot and even if they did get in an hour or so in boiling sugar would have made even them pretty tasty!

[daizie]

i just remember my nan warning us not to eat too many before she'd soaked them, she said the maggots would give us a belly ache, hope your not put off when you go to eat your blackberry and maggot jam, heheheeee sorry .

[woofmarkthedog]

The word 'Jippy belly" comes from foraging by the way.......Crab apples...

We foraged last week........yum

W**F

[daizie]

lol, another ex once said , 'lets get home and lets have a rummage' eww, honest, sorry , i will stop now, i cant stop laughing

[bigbadwolf]

One of these days Daizie we're going to hear about the time one of your ex's dropped you off at your place and how he was such a gentleman.....helping you out of the boot an all.

[woofmarkthedog]

Or

You senseless .............

[Andystar]

daizie Wrote:

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> A do-as-you-likey more like . Hope you got the

> maggots out first, blackberries are full of them .

Oh cripes, I feel ill now...

[Sandperson]

Don't worry Andy, There was not a single maggot near my jam!

[Andystar]

daizie Wrote:

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hope your not

> put off when you go to eat your blackberry and

> maggot jam, heheheeee sorry .

maybe you can eat some with this

[flapjackdavey]

we were always foraging when I were a lad , I remember sundays spent collecting berries with my parents

[bigbadwolf]

My dad sometimes took us to Kent where we'd shoot Rabbits and the occasional Pheasant with an air rifle. Pheasants have probably got to be the dumbest animals alive as on the way back from golf my dad would sometimes pull up on the verge and go and stun (then wring it's neck) one with one of his clubs and we'd hang it in the cellar to eat in the next day or so.

I could still probably skin and gut a rabbit.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Went Blackberry picking today but the next 2 weeks should see the berries at their most fruitful.

[flapjackdavey]

I used to play blow football with my backside when I was a youngster .

[woofmarkthedog]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> My dad sometimes took us to Kent where we'd shoot

> Rabbits and the occasional Pheasant with an air

> rifle. Pheasants have probably got to be the

> dumbest animals alive as on the way back from golf

> my dad would sometimes pull up on the verge and go

> and stun (then wring it's neck) one with one of

> his clubs and we'd hang it in the cellar to eat in

> the next day or so.

>

> I could still probably skin and gut a rabbit.

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Remember the smell still ? peeling the skin off like a wet suit & that film between skin & carcass. I get a fair few pheasant in the season if you fancy the odd brace.

W**F

[SimonM]

It's apples that attract maggots not blackberries. It's quite easy after all to check out the blackberries first but apples are a different matter. The only thing worse that biting into an apple and finding a maggot in it is finding half a maggot...

[HonaloochieB]

OK knock me out some twenties, tenner a pop shall we say?

[bigbadwolf]

Don't take any notice of him Simon.

HonaloochieB sell's clothes pegs and sharpens Knives door to door, the great big pikey tinker.

[louisiana]

We used to forage from Vauxhall (Nine Elms) fruit and veg market every morning. And sell the proceeds B)

[daizie]

gawd, that brings back memories, used to work for the fruit and veg sellers in the offices above at nine elms, sorting out dock tickets, making tea and answering the switchboard in a cockney accent. The highlight of the week was all the office staff being given a bag of fruit and veg to take home on a friday, i was paid ?35 a week :-S