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though checking the weather forecast is good advice (post 3) it's worth noting that temperatures given on the BBC weather is for towns and cities, it can sometimes be a few degrees colder when out in the sticks.

yes, it's called, potentilla indica, it is pretty tasteless, not unpleasant just quite tasteless, i have eaten the fruit raw but not made anything out of it, it's probably of little culinary use i guess due to lack of taste. With all things the best advice is use caution of course. :)

You're welcome, thankyou :)

been harvesting hogweed shoots for the past two weeks, young hawthorn leaves the last few days which i like to add to mashed potatoes, have had some young himalayan balsam shoots there's loads of young shoots along the river about two-three inches tall.

Seen the plant below while walking today, it's a wild growing Indian Strawberry plant, sometimes called Mock Strawberry, i know so because i have seen it at other times when in flower, the flowers are a yellow colour which distinguishes it from the normal wild strawberry. Apparently in Lofty...

written by Jack Bruce and sung here by Mountain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNOzw8ufhxE

Thanks Leshy your welcome, glad you like :) Thanks for tip Damascus, not read the book yet but will :) Thanks Oldtimer your welcome, hope you enjoy :)

the award winning documentary of ''Ishi'', the last Yahi. Interesting viewing, from living in hiding as the last survivors of his tribe, to becoming a living museum piece as the last Yahi alive, hunting with Saxton Pope etc etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZB9oKQaCN4

there was a programme in 1993 on the Cutting Edge series on Channel 4 with John Ridgeway. edited just to add:- just found this which says a bit about it, it does say the programme opened with that poem so it looks like it is the programme in your queery, see link below...

It was the sound of my childhood too. Kes is a wonderful film and one of my favourites, i can relate to it very much, escaping from the grime and noise of heavy industry to wandering across the fields hearing the sweet music of skylarks the contrast between the two was remarkable and gave me a...

lying in the long grass listening to skylarks on a lazy summers day.

haha :) arr bur i day goo in it meself, it's by the cut, nippin off now for me tae, faggots and paes, keep owt the oss road :)

Thanks Leshy, you're welcome, ATB :)

most of the white immigrant settlers didn't want to assimilate into the native populations way of life but wanted to occupy their land, with ever increasing numbers of white immigrants the federal government created ''The Dawes Act'' in 1887, it makes interesting reading...