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    No damsons or plums this year...

    Popped round the parentals over the weekend and their greengage tree has had its second successive poor yield. Never noticed/asked about the rhubarb, but noticed the Blackberries in some areas being low in numbers, but big in size. Has anyone else noticed they seem to be coming earlier and...
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    Argyle/Cowal Peninsula

    Suprised to see there isnt any threads or posts (that I can see) on the Argyle/Cowal Peninsula area. Easy to get to via car, train and ferry, but once you are away from Dunoon, you could get lost for days amongst the lochs, glens and forests. I was with the family, so didnt explore as much...
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    Crablines

    In Whitby, we were pulling up harbour crabs off the quay, although at Seaham, we caught plenty small brown crabs (the tide was coming in, so may have hit on lucky). There were pots a mile or so from the shore and as the tide came in, the defence boulders we were on, was beyond the shoreline -...
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    Hello

    One of your regulars asked me to contribute in this section to introduce myself - so here I am. Live in the North East of England, always been interested in 'living off the land' so to speak by my grandad, who grew his own veg, kept his own chicken, potted rabbits, caught the odd stray...
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    Crablines

    Hi 1st time poster - new to this fishing/crabbing game. To cut a long story short, we were in Whitby over the last bank holiday, saw kids crabbing, bought the kit and joined in. Last weekend, we went to Seaham, went crabbing on the rocks and caught a stack of crabs, which we threw back...