If things get tougher?

trying-very-trying

mardatha wrote: »

Let me look for that for you Owl!
Mrs Mac, I am sure "roadkill" could be the next have-to-have toy

Mardatha, if things get much worse, we'll all be looking for "roadkill" only it won't be the soft toy kind that we're looking for.

katieowl_2

mardatha wrote: »

Let me look for that for you Owl!
Mrs Mac, I am sure "roadkill" could be the next have-to-have toy
Ceridwen-(EDIT; Now theres a road of rather nice houses near me - £500,000 worth nice - most with loads of fruit trees - I would be knitting a black balaclava and buying a black backpack.... !!

Thank you Mardatha!

Now regarding Ceridwen....there's a VERY amusing (informative and interesting) article called Confessions of a bottom feeder online
( http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/confessi.html) the lady (Anita) who wrote this is a kookie californian astrologer (she claims to be Carlos Castenada's astrologer?) I JUST LOVED this when I first read it (I actually printed it off) and she talks about the FREEBIES overhanging the back alleyways in Cal. Avocados, Grapefruits, Lemons, Oranges.... Imagine!!! No moth-eaten sour apples for Anita! SHE suggests borrowing neighbours dogs to walk down the alleyways armed with your carrier bags You then have an excuse to be there and the where-with-all to collect your bounty....

Go on Ceridwen....you know you want to!!!

Regards

Kate

Cinny91

Reading peoples posts about fruit trees I feel quite guilty! There is a crab apple tree in my garden which flowers loads of the little things every year without fail and we just 'leave them for the birds' but I've now got a crab apple jelly recipe and I'm having a butchers at it tomorrow! Need some jars though, i've only got 2.

Saying that, if there's anyone in the retford area who wants acouple, feel free! :rotfl:

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Has anyone found any sweet chestnuts on the ground? I have just taken a walk under some SC trees and found none. Pity

ceridwen

katieowl wrote: »

Thank you Mardatha!

Now regarding Ceridwen....there's a VERY amusing (informative and interesting) article called Confessions of a bottom feeder online
( http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/confessi.html) the lady (Anita) who wrote this is a kookie californian astrologer (she claims to be Carlos Castenada's astrologer?) I JUST LOVED this when I first read it (I actually printed it off) and she talks about the FREEBIES overhanging the back alleyways in Cal. Avocados, Grapefruits, Lemons, Oranges.... Imagine!!! No moth-eaten sour apples for Anita! SHE suggests borrowing neighbours dogs to walk down the alleyways armed with your carrier bags You then have an excuse to be there and the where-with-all to collect your bounty....

Go on Ceridwen....you know you want to!!!

Regards

Kate

Think I might have actually read that one - somewhat enviously:D I'm alright on the apples front - have found plenty of trees to forage from quite legitimately - I do wince a bit when I walk past pear trees though;) Am thinking of having a couple of "ballerina" type fruit trees out back myself - a pear one and a plum one perhaps to deal with that bit of my fruit supplies.:D

Valli

Oh don't purleeze!
Where I park, on a saturday, in Chesrfield Town,there is a cooking apple tree fromwhich the apples go unharvested...the location is 'clean' ...if I were taller...

Details could be provided...

Pandora123_2

ceridwen wrote: »

(EDIT; Now theres a road of rather nice houses near me - £500,000 worth nice - most with loads of fruit trees - anyone wondering why I keep an eye on Freecycle - I'm hoping!).

No need to wait for Freecycle or invest in a balaclava... if I spy a tree with apples going to waste, I knock on the door and ask nicely if I can have some. Works every time

Cinny91

ceridwen wrote: »

I do wince a bit when I walk past pear trees though;)

I was going to say the same as Pandora, couldn't you ask if you could take afew? There's no harm in trying! Unless they release the dogs or something.

My boyfriend keeps on spotting things that we could forage, quite jealous because I can never spot anything for myself!

ceridwen

Hmmm....says she...trying to summon up nerve to do the door-ringing for pears.....errr.....thinks.....I bet that isnt covered in the etiquette guides. Thinks....do I "dress down" (tattiest footwear, cheapest handbag) or look as "respectable" as possible.....errrr......That wasnt covered in my "manners for minors" Guide when I was brought up...;) (Thinks....better not going asking my mother for suggestions on that one.....she's already making comments about "Are you so poor that you HAVE to get your food that way?" when I talk about foraging, closely followed by "You just be careful about what you're eating" and she hands me the latest newspaper article about mushroom foragers having poisoned themselves.:cool:)

Cinny91

My mum has been foraging for as long as I can remember, with blackberries ect but hasn't done it in awhile! I used to join in when I was younger, but my idea was picking dandelion leaves for our bunnies. but we never knocked on doors so I can't help you with your attire! :rotfl: Although I'd suggest maybe a potato sack and a 'please sir..' approach..